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NEWSLETTER | 29 Jan 2021

Key considerations for hedge fund succession planning – Part I

In his latest occasional blog series, Joel Press of Press Management, considers the issue of succession planning in the hedge fund sector and the planning, time and effort needed to accomplish a successful transfer of leadership…

Fri | 29 Jan 2021, 11:46

Market intelligence specialist Thomas Murray has launched Thomas Murray Digital, a new service that will provide risk assessments of digital asset market infrastructural entities – including exchanges and custodians – whose scrutiny, to-date, has often been unstandardised, ineffectual or simply non-existent.

Fri | 29 Jan 2021, 11:46

LiquidityBook, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has reported record. revenues in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Fri | 29 Jan 2021, 11:46

Broadridge Financial Solutions, in partnership with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has begun development to support its role as an Approved SFT Submitter as it prepares for the launch of the new Securities Financing Transaction (SFT) Clearing service.

Fri | 29 Jan 2021, 11:46

Digital Vega, an FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, and Spark Systems, a Singapore based builder of low latency FX trading platforms, have formed strategic partnership to offer clients a technology platform for trading the full suite of FX products: Options, Spot, Forwards, Swaps and NDF’s.

Alpha News Stream launches new portal

Fri | 29 Jan 2021, 11:46

Alpha News Stream (ANS), a cloud-delivered, highly customisable API newsfeed of financial headlines, has launched a website portal where investing, fintech, corporate and other organisations can easily engage the service.

Fri | 29 Jan 2021, 11:46

SESAMm, a provider of analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for asset managers, banks, and hedge funds, has concluded a Series B funding round for over EUR7.5 million led by the Fintech VC fund of NewAlpha Asset Management and global investment firm The Carlyle Group.

Fri | 29 Jan 2021, 11:46

CIFC Asset Management (CIFC), a USD30 billion alternative credit specialist serving institutional investors globally, has appointed Rebecca Levy as a Managing Director in its Investor Solutions Group.