Category: Institutional

June 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

BrickVest announces successful exit of its first investment

BrickVest, the online real estate investment platform, has announced its first successful exit less than 18 months after it launched its platform. The investment alongside CORESTATE Capital Group, the residential portfolio and commercial real estate markets investment firm, featured a sizeable national German retail portfolio of 23 assets. European investors who invested in the BrickVest…

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June 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LiquidityBook hires Nicholas Thompson from Eze Software for EMEA client coverage

LiquidityBook today announced the addition of Nicholas Thompson as Manager, Client Services - EMEA, with demand for its POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) platform surging among European fund managers. Mr. Thompson will be responsible for leading the firm’s London team and overseeing all service and deployment aspects for its expanding client base in…

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Bank of China (UK) Limited joins LCH’s SwapClear
June 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH appoints Michael Davie as Global Head of Rates

LCH, the global clearing house, announced today that Michael Davie has been appointed Global Head of Rates for LCH Group, effective immediately. Davie will report to Daniel Maguire, Group COO of LCH and Martin Pluves, CEO LCH Ltd. Michael Davie’s appointment follows Daniel Maguire’s recent appointment as Group COO in addition to his role as…

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Broadridge presents new securities lending assessment solution for mutual funds
June 12, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Broadridge forms strategic alliance with Spence Johnson

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) announced an agreement with Spence Johnson, a provider of global institutional data and intelligence, to bring together retail and institutional data, benchmarking and analytics. This strategic alliance leverages Broadridge’s Global Market Intelligence, the platform for retail cross-border fund data and analytics that delivers detailed information on 80,000 retail mutual funds…

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June 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive and Panthera Solutions launch Solactive Panthera World Market Portfolio Index

Solactive, the innovative German index engineer, and Panthera Solutions announced that are launching the Solactive Panthera World Market Portfolio Index. This index seeks to replicate the global market portfolio as measured by Monaco-based asset allocation consultancy Panthera Solutions through a multi-asset indexing strategy. Specifically, the index is composed of ETFs and minor cash positions tracking…

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NSD and Interfax launch Single Disclosure Window product
June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NSD conducts DVP settlement via correspondent account with the Bank of Russia

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, announced that has expanded settlement opportunities for its clients: it has conducted the first DVP transaction via a correspondent account with the Bank of Russia. Along with DVP settlements in NSD and on accounts with foreign banks, NSD also provides its clients with the opportunity to conduct…

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June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AFEX appoints Wayne Mitchell as General Manager for EMEA

AFEX, a non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, has appointed Wayne Mitchell as General Manager EMEA. Mitchell’s appointment comes as AFEX extends its product set and local presence across Europe to support its growing client base of businesses and individuals. At the end of 2015, AFEX launched AFEX Offshore, its service for…

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June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Regulatory Reporting to use Duco Cube for MiFID II reconciliation solution

NEX Regulatory Reporting, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which provides regulatory reporting services across worldwide regulatory regimes, and Duco, the global provider of self-service data normalisation and reconciliation services, just announced that NEX Regulatory Reporting is to use Duco’s technology to provide MiFID II reconciliation to their clients. Reconciliation is a mandatory activity under MiFID…

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Monex teams up with Shizuoka Bank to launch financial instruments intermediary services
June 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group monthly FX volumes finally up 10% MoM

Japanese online trading company Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698) has reported its monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in May 2017 and the results look promising this time. The number of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs – the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) finally changed directions and went up 10% MoM…

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