BMLL, an independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3 Data and analytics, is partnering with Kepler Cheuvreux, an independent European financial services company specialising in research, execution, advisory, and asset management services.

Buck, an integrated HR, pensions, and employee benefits consulting, technology, and administration services firm, has launched Echelon+, an inclusive approach to defined benefit pensions governance to help protect trustees and sponsors from increasing complexity.

Exabel, a data and analytics platform for investment teams, has partnered with People Data Labs (PDL) to deliver a powerful new insights capability for PDL’s investment research clients. The People Data Labs Insights Platform will provide hedge funds and asset managers with curated insights based on the largest B2B people dataset available on the market.  This offering will provide users with easy to navigate dashboards, visualisations and KPI monitoring capabilities, and aid in the idea generation process by flagging trend shifts in People Data Labs’ datasets.

City Hive, the think tank and advocacy group, has launched ACT, a standard of corporate culture for investment companies, chaired by City Hive’s CEO Bev Shah, and Chief Strategist Mandy Kirby. ACT, standing for ‘Action, Challenge, and Transparency’, is a standard of corporate culture designed to help investment companies demonstrate movement towards more diverse, equitable and inclusive firms. ACT enables companies to show alignment between external and internal values; between beliefs and behaviours. There are 15 founding signatories to ACT, including Schroders, Lombard Odier Investment Management, M&G, Aviva Investors, Mirabaud Investments, AssetCo, Federated Hermes, WHEB, BlueBay Asset Management, Radiant ESG,

Global investment solutions provider, Russell Investments, has been selected by French pension plan, Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), as transition management partner. FRR will utilise Russell Investments’ deep capital markets expertise and extensive trading capabilities to reduce exposure risk and execution costs when restructuring its mandates, including changes to managers, strategies, benchmarks and investment styles.

Bittrex, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange, has added support for USD Coin (USDC) to its list of trading pairs.

Advisor Group has selected CAIS, an alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, to provide a platform solution for improved alternative investment access, education and transaction workflow.

StoneX has selected Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a specialist provider of low-latency microservices and technology solutions for financial services, to enhance its equities trading performance. StoneX selected Chronicle’s software in a competitive process to replace incumbent trading technology.     The Chronicle FIX engine is a core trading technology built to meet the most stringent performance and resilience requirements. It offers exceptional low latency, high throughput (c1m messages per server/second), rule-based routing for ease of scalability, multi-level security and a robust design supporting uninterrupted trading.

London-headquartered information services company, Dialectica, has launched a B2B Surveys service to enhance its comprehensive portfolio of bespoke insights services. The proposition is designed to enable Dialectica’s clients – the world’s leading consulting, hedge fund, and private equity companies – to gather proprietary quantitative insights utilising research methods that have historically been limited to the B2C insights world.  The product development has been born out of client requests for a bespoke survey offering that matches the firm’s expert interview proposition.

Spectrum Markets, a pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, has widened its product offering to include cryptocurrencies as an underlying, with turbo warrants on bitcoin and ether now available. The new products expand Spectrum’s existing suite of Turbo24s and allow brokers to offer their clients long or short leveraged exposure to the price of the two most popular cryptocurrencies.