12 Mar 2014
ECC launches EMIR trade reporting services
The European Commodity Clearing (ECC) has expanded its offering to include reporting services required under the European Market…
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SEI expands Advisors Inner Circle trust solution to include alternative strategies
SEI has launched The Advisors’ Inner Circle Fund (AIC) III with an eye towards helping managers of private funds enter the retail space. …
Options on futures trading grows by 27 per cent, says TABB
Options on futures markets are seeing rapid growth in trading volumes as investors expand their use of these instruments in hedging and…
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management acquires USD85m of illiquid hedge funds
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management's (DeAWM) Aggregator Solutions fund has recently acquired a USD85m portfolio of illiquid hedge funds…
Syz & Co launches Oyster Market Neutral Plus
The Swiss banking group Syz & Co has launched Oyster Market Neutral Plus, a new sub-fund of Oyster, its Luxembourg UCITS SICAV.The fund…
Bloomberg SEF’s available-to-trade determinations are self-certified, says CFTC
The CFTC has announced that Bloomberg SEF’s available-to-trade determinations (MAT determinations) for certain interest rate swap (IRS) and…
11 Mar 2014
Improved post-trade automation needed in ETD market
The push toward an exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs) market has exposed gaps in the post-trade process used by market participants to…
Mark Browne joins Dechert as partner
Law firm Dechert has appointed Mark Browne as a partner with the firm’s financial services group in its Dublin office.“We are delighted to…
US CFTC and Financial Services Agency of Japan sign MOC on cross-border regulated entities
Leaders of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA) have signed a memorandum of…
Hedge fund assets to grow faster in 2014, says Credit Suisse survey
Institutional investors are predicting increased rates of growth in hedge fund assets in 2014, according to the Credit Suisse’s sixth…
Exchange-traded derivatives trading volumes recovered in 2013, says WFE
The number of exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) worldwide increased by three per cent in 2013 to 22 billion contracts, according to…
Clearstream and banks develop new T2S asset servicing model
Clearstream, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Intesa Sanpaolo and BBVA are developing an asset servicing model for a market environment…
SGX and Dalian Commodity Exchange sign MOU
Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on promoting…
10 Mar 2014
UK interest rate hike looms sooner than expected
Don’t rule out a UK rate rise in 2014, says Thant Han, portfolio manager at US-based Standish, a BNY Mellon company. Meanwhile, a mid-2015…
LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear expands compression offering
LCH.Clearnet has expanded its compression offering to include multilateral compression via SwapClear, its interest rate derivatives…
