22 Jul 2015
Permal builds out investment team
Alternative asset manager Permal Group has made three new senior hires: Terrence Purcell, EVP, Portfolio Management; Robert Discolo as EVP,…
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DTCC appoints Stephen Scharf as chief security officer
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Stephen Scharf to the newly-created position of Chief Security Officer…
100WHF Institute partners with the Institute of Banking to offer CIFD Programme scholarship
100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) has partnered with the Institute of Banking for one Certified Investment Fund Director Programme…
Maples Fund Services opens San Francisco Office
Maples Fund Services has opened an office in San Francisco, the firm’s first on the west coast. The expansion further solidifies the firm’s…
LME Clear receives BoE approval for trade-compression service
LME Clear, the clearing house for the London Metal Exchange market, has received approval from the Bank of England (BoE) to launch a…
Thomson Reuters releases StarMine Combined Alpha Model
Thomson Reuters has released the StarMine Combined Alpha Model (CAM), a model that combines all the available StarMine equity alpha models…
US hedge fund managers lag way behind European peers in AIFMD compliance, says survey
Only 15 per cent of US hedge fund managers are now AIFMD compliant, compared to 82 per cent of European Managers, according to Preqin’s…
21 Jul 2015
Q2 2015 Update: Investor activity in infrastructure
This article investigates the future plans of institutional investors in infrastructure, featuring the latest data from the Preqin…
Private debt fund performance and dry powder, Q2 2015
This extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Debt, Q2 2015 offers insight into the annualised contributions and distributions of…
SunGard study finds majority of top financial institutions have consolidated reconciliation under centres of excellence
Two-thirds of top-tier financial institutions have established reconciliation centres of excellence (CoE) following a recent wave of…
CME Group and Multi Commodity Exchange of India sign MOU
CME Group and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on various cooperation…
Options opens new central London office
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has opened a new central London office.…
Euronext adds options on IMCD to Spotlight segment
Euronext has expanded it Spotlight options offering with new options on IMCD, a distributor of speciality chemicals and food ingredients…
Eurex expands its dividend index derivatives offering
Eurex Exchange has launched new futures and options based on the STOXX Global Select Dividend 100 Index expanding its dividend index…
Bright Smart joins SGX as Derivatives Trading Member
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is pleased to welcome Hong Kong-based Bright Smart Futures and Commodities Company Limited (Bright Smart) to its…