18 Sep 2018
Bank-owned primes set to contract
Regulation continues to bite and influence the way investment banks structure their business activities. Most notably for the hedge fund…
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Manager perspectives on the prime broker relationship
With the rise of social media platforms over the last decade, led by Facebook, the way we think about connecting and interacting with…
Creative opportunities to support mini primes
Mini primes and those looking to establish new prime brokerage businesses are currently a big focus for SS&C Advent, according to Roger…
A model to support market efficiency
The art of a good stock picker is identifying companies in obscure parts of the market that have yet to reach their full value potential,…
The investor’s view of capital introduction
In many, if not most, cases, capital introduction teams at prime brokers have tended to function as ‘quasi marketers’ for their hedge fund…
Prime brokers get closer to investors and enjoy Q1 growth
The first quarter of 2018 saw prime brokerage revenues jump 20 per cent to USD4.9 billion for the largest investment banks according to a…
Hipgnosis is new No1 hit for Guernsey
Mariana Enevoldsen (pictured), Director at Estera, explains how the recent IPO of music investment fund Hipgnosis demonstrates how Guernsey…
Perpetual enters into global strategic agreement with FundRock
Perpetual Corporate Trust, an independent provider of corporate trustee services to the managed funds industry and debt markets in…
BSO and Hoptroff bring new plug-and-play time-synchronisation service to market
Global network provider BSO has partnered with Hoptroff London, the time-synchronisation software specialist, to provide the financial…
Investors expect more from alternative fund providers, says new AIMA survey
Investors are increasingly tuned into overall outcomes as opposed to simply raw performance of alternative investment fund managers, and…
BCS Global Markets and Tigress Financial Partners form Partnership
Tigress Financial Partners, a women-owned institutional FINRA registered broker-dealer, has formed a strategic partnership with BCS Prime…
Issuance to launch digital securities marketing platform
Issuance is developing a platform that aims to give the increasing supply of digital securities offerings (DSOs) direct access to…
BMA releases licensing requirements for digital asset business
The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has released an Information Bulletin outlining what documentation is required when submitting an…
Caspian raises USD16m from CSP token pre-sale
Institutional-grade crypto trading platform Caspian has raised USD16million in a pre-sale of its CSP token. The platform is now live and no…
Ares Management adds two to Credit Group
Ares Management has appointed Jason Duko and Kapil Singh as Partners and Portfolio Managers in the Ares Credit Group, focussing on liquid…
