Solutions
Northern Trust’s Investment Data Science capabilities offer a curated suite of solutions that help institutions digitise their investment process, enabling faster and smarter investment decisions. Paul Fahey (pictured), Head of Investment Data Science, chats to Hedgeweek about growth opportunities and the drivers of client demand and current challenges facing the hedge fund industry…
Derivatives and securities exchange network Cboe Global Markets is to launch Tuesday and Thursday-expiring Russell 2000 Index weekly options and Mini-Russell 2000 Index weekly options, beginning Monday, 8 January, 2024.
Liquidnet, a technology-driven agency execution specialist, is to integrate bondIT’s Scorable Credit Analytics into its Fixed Income electronic trading platform to help traders anticipate market trends and mitigate credit risk.
From partnering with clients who provide unsecured financing to small and mid-cap corporates, to those taking asset backed positions in real estate and infrastructure, Aztec Group delivers outsourced solutions to a number of leading private credit fund managers. Aztec Group Head of Private Credit, Kevin Hogan (pictured), and Luxembourg Head of Private Credit, Francesca Raffa, outline some of the challenges and opportunities in the space and how technology is a key enabler in the private credit space.
Even though interest rates have been rising, institutional investors continue to show interest in alternative investments. Sofia Harrschar (pictured), Head of Alternative Investments and Structuring at Universal Investment Group, explores the evolving dynamics of the market and highlights key opportunities in private credit.
CME Group, a derivatives marketplace, has announced that open interest in its deeply liquid SOFR complex set a new record of 60,435,467 contracts on December 12, including 48.3 million options contracts and 12.1 million futures contracts.
Trading Technologies International, Inc (TT), a global capital markets technology platform provider, has launched two new lines of business, TT Compliance and TT Quantitative Trading Solutions (QTS), to further support the company’s growth into new asset classes.
BMLL, an independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3 data and analytics across global equity and futures markets, has completion of its China data offering with the addition of Shanghai alongside Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
Derivatives marketplace CME Group is to launch CME FX Spot+, a new, all-to-all spot FX marketplace that will connect cash market participants with the company’s FX futures liquidity. The offering will be available for client testing in H2 2024.
Avelacom, a provider of connectivity & IT infrastructure solutions designed to improve market making, arbitrage and liquidity aggregation strategies, has completed its backhaul network upgrade, resulting in latency improvements between European and US exchanges and those in Asia and the Middle East.
