30 Nov 2005
Borsa Italiana and Euronext close acquisition of MTS
Euronext and Borsa Italiana's 51:49 joint venture has closed the acquisition of 51 per cent of Societa per il Mercato dei Titoli di Stato…
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Walkers opens new office focusing on growth in Middle East market
Offshore legal and hedge funds specialist Walkers has opened the first fully transactional law firm office in the Dubai International…
Banque Générale du Luxembourg now Fortis Banque
Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL) has changed its name to Fortis Banque Luxembourg and is to market its products and services under the…
29 Nov 2005
GlobeOp to offer Currenex's e-FX trading platform to hedge fund clients
GlobeOp Financial Services is to offer connectivity to Currenex's electronic foreign exchange platform via its GoMarkets hedge fund trading…
Japonica protects top quartile hurdle rate intellectual property
Japonica Partners has protected its top quartile hurdle rate intellectual property by filing a utility patent with the US Patent and…
BISYS Fund Services announces new key hires
BISYS Fund Services has announced several new hires and one internal promotion, all fuelled by the firm winning new business over the past…
28 Nov 2005
HSBC launches new private equity platform
HSBC's Alternative Fund Services has launched a customised private equity administration platform tailored to the specific needs of its…
Eurex Bonds expands to include new participant groups
Eurex Bonds, the bond trading platform, has admitted Tradition, through its subsidiary TSA, as the first inter-dealer brokerage company to…
Magna Turkey Fund issues sterling share class
Charlemagne Capital has launched a sterling share class (B Class) of the Ireland-domiciled Magna Turkey Fund. Magna Turkey is part of the…
AcenciA issue raises GBP 42.6 million
Fund of hedge funds AcenciA Debt Strategies Limited raised GBP 42,600,000 before expenses in its recent pricing and offer for subscription.…
25 Nov 2005
The Hedgeweek Interview: Growing a global platform: Joost Lobler, Chief Commercial Officer, Fortis Prime Fund Solutions
Joost Lobler outlines the global development of Fortis Prime Fund Solutions, with funds under administration growing at over 40 per cent…
SSgA selects DJ Wilshire US size and style indices for new ETFs
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is to use five Dow Jones Wilshire US Size and Style indexes as the basis of nine new exchange-traded…
Former IPE to use IPO proceeds for service expansion
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), the energy futures trading exchange, launched its IPO last week and listed on the NYSE.Of the total…
Bespoke offers Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index access for GBP 5k
Bespoke Financial Consulting is launching an FSA-regulated, open-ended fund offering access to the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index from GBP…
24 Nov 2005
S&P and Soliton to offer automated integration of reference data
Standard & Poor's has teamed up with Soliton Inc. to manage the acquisition and integration of its securities and reference data for…
