As part of the mandate, S3’s Blacklight order management system will now be available through LiquidityBook, enabling users to action rates across their prime brokers
J.P. Morgan’s Securities Services has launched Fusion, a data platform designed to deliver end-to-end data management and reporting solutions for institutional investors
Hedge funds ended 2021 with a strong December performance, led by high-beta strategies in equity hedge, event-driven and commodities, according to Chicago-based index and research specialist Hedge Fund Research
Broadridge Financial Solutions has partnered with Snowflake, a data cloud company, to enable its clients to consolidate and analyse trading and portfolio data in the cloud
Eurex’s established direct access model for the buy-side, ISA Direct, will be extended to broaden its availability to a greater range of market participants, including hedge funds
Global macro strategies will be strongest beneficiaries of new investment flows, with 32 per cent of investor respondents planning to increase allocations to this fund segment, according to AIMA and HFM survey
A team of capital markets veterans including Matthew Peakman, Chris Hagstrom and Mark Toone are unveiling Kayenta, a fintech promising to bring efficiency to the hedge fund treasury functions with a focus on reducing the cost of financing
CPP Investments brings $475.7 billion in assets under management (as of 31 December 2020) to the peer-to-peer lending pool the association is forming, which already accounted for more than $6 trillion from 11 members as of January
Hindenburg Research is making the positive case for activist short sellers by releasing a report into a healthcare firm it says is defrauding elderly customers and misleading retail investors, while refusing to profit from a short position
With the combined lendable assets of its members now north of $6 trillion, the buy-side association aims to use its clout to affect positive change for the more than 5 million underlying pensioners and public sector workers it represents globally
The trade body has set its sights on an ambitious list of projects for the year ahead but the higher price tag for members risks acting as a barrier to entry for smaller market participants, according to some market observers
