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NEWSLETTER | 5 Oct 2020

Brummer multi-strategy hedge fund on track for strong equities gains, initial September estimates show

Brummer & Partners’ multi-strategy hedge fund flagship was on track for a marginal September rise, the Swedish hedge fund pioneer said on Friday morning, as strong gains in equities-focused funds were offset by faltering trend-following strategies – but the BMS vehicle remains comfortably in the black year-to-date.

Mon | 5 Oct 2020, 10:30

The past six months have seen hedge fund managers deploy their disaster recovery plans which had probably been gathering dust since they were first drawn up. The shift to remote working has however uncovered key-person risk organisations were unknowingly exposed to. This in turn underscored the need for co-sourcing solutions to document and streamline all processes within a firm.

Mon | 5 Oct 2020, 10:30

Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has confirmed day one connectivity for all clients into the National Market System’s (NMS) new low-latency network, NMS NET, located in the Mahwah data centre in New Jersey.

Mon | 5 Oct 2020, 10:30

In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes, namely: Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Uberisation and Twitterisation, to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in our industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme. First up: Watsonisation…

Mon | 5 Oct 2020, 10:30

Talos, a technology provider for the institutional trading of digital assets, has launched public access to its platform which connects the diverse group of participants involved in today's crypto-asset market structure – institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders and custodians.

OCC reports new annual exchange-listed options industry volume record

Mon | 5 Oct 2020, 10:30

Equity derivatives clearing specialist OCC has announced a September 2020 total cleared contract volume of 670,994,045 contracts, bringing total cleared contract volume to-date to 5,453,292,830 for 2020 and surpassing the annual volume record for the US. exchange-listed options industry.

Mon | 5 Oct 2020, 10:30

Ideal Prediction (Ideal), a trading analysis and data science company for the capital markets, has appointed Jonathan Fieldman and Geoff Jones to its Advisory Board.

Mon | 5 Oct 2020, 10:30

Global law firm Reed Smith has appointed Shervin Shameli as a partner in its Global Corporate Group and London office.