27 Nov 2018
AFME publishes revised Due Diligence Questionnaire for global custodians
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published an updated version of its Due Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ) which aims…
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ADM Capital closes Asia Secured Lending Facility II at USD178m
ADM Capital, a Hong Kong and London-based private credit investment manager, has held the final close for its Asia Secured Lending Facility…
Monroe Capital closes USD1.33bn Private Credit Fund III
Monroe Capital (Monroe) has held the final close of its 2018 Monroe Capital Private Credit Fund III at USD1.33 billion of limited partner…
IHS Markit expands thinkFolio with managed FIX Network solution
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has launched a new service that administers FIX connectivity for…
Building bot frameworks with NLP technology
As discussed in the first part of our discussion with SEI on the potential of natural language processing (NLP) – click here to read – the…
26 Nov 2018
Ares Management completes corporate conversion
Ares Management Corporation has completed its conversion to a corporation under Delaware law and changed its name from Ares Management to…
TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory appoints Vice Chairman
TigerRisk Partners, a risk, capital and strategic advisor to the global insurance and reinsurance industries, has appointed Stephen Fromm…
Omniex Partners with Kingdom Trust to accelerate settlement in OTC crypto markets
Omniex, an institutional investment and trading platform for crypto-assets, has extended its integration with top industry custody…
Gibraltar regulator grants Lendingblock in-principle licence as DLT Provider
Lendingblock, a securities lending platform for digital assets, has secured an ‘in-principal’ decision from the Gibraltar Financial…
L/S Equity strategies remain under pressure in November
The ongoing sell-off since the beginning of October has proved difficult to navigate for hedge funds, though there were substantial…
NWT Group selects PFS-PAXUS fund administration system
NWT, a Mauritius-based full service fund administration firm that forms part of the AXYS group of companies, has selected the Pacific Fund…
Veteran hedge fund manager finds returns in actively managed fixed income
With an annualised return since 2011 of 12.95 per cent placing it in the top decile of fixed income hedge fund performance tables, LNG…
BCS Global Markets launches new synthetic prime brokerage offering
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM) an independent securities broker on the Russian Exchange, has launched a new trading product – a new synthetic…
Hermes expands global credit team with emerging market debt appointment
Hermes Investment Management, the USD46.9 billion manager, has appointed Nachu Chockalingam as Senior Emerging Market Debt Portfolio…
Dinosaur Group launches FX service
Dinosaur Financial Group (Dinosaur), a challenger broker-dealer and a subsidiary of Dinosaur Group Holdings, has launched a new Global…
