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Ogier’s Jersey listings team is continuing to see strong flows of private equity and intercompany group-related debt listings as The International Stock Exchange (TISE) announces a general increase in listings for the first six months of 2018.
Peter Longstaffe (pictured), counsel in the Banking and Finance team in Jersey, says that the listing team continues to be busy with private equity and intercompany group-related debt listing work – and that the team is also active in other growth areas for the exchange including High Yield Bonds.
Ogier is one of the leading listings agents in relation to TISE, having
SimCorp, a provider of investment management solutions and services to the global financial services industry, has announced a raft of enhancements and developments of its flagship investment management software solution, SimCorp Dimension.
The 6.4 release features several advances to the system, covering the full investment management value chain, from front to back. One of the primary features of the release is new and advanced accounting analytics for the front office, created to meet the growing complexity across the buy side, particularly in the global insurance sector. An enhanced Collateral Manager, and new functionality to help clients with European General Data
OpenFin, an operating system for the financial industry, has appointed Stephen Wood as Global Head of Enterprise Deployment.
Wood joins from Deutsche Bank, where he served as Head of Market Data, Risk and Compliance, from 2012-2015, and Global Head of Market Data Services, from 2015-2018, with responsibilities including managing the deployment of vendor products. Wood brings his unique insights to OpenFin, where he will be responsible for driving the firm’s enterprise deployment strategy. He will be working closely with the growing number of banks, asset managers and hedge funds now running their financial desktop applications on OpenFin.
In addition,
By John D’Agostino (pictured), Global Leader, Investor Engagement at DMS Governance, & Paras Malde, Director at DMS Governance.
Crypto 101
Distributed ledger (DL) technology is the foundation on which crypto-currencies (or crypto-assets, depending on where one falls in the debate) lie. Bitcoin, the most well-known use case for DL, is an attempt to solve the problem of storing and transferring value in a digital, decentralised system.
Bitcoin is a means to compensate people/servers for the effort required to “mine” (confirm) blocks of transactions and add them to the global ledger/chain (block+chain). Bitcoins are gifted to these miners upon completion of
Drawing on decades of experience, Matthew Shaw (pictured) and Philipp Kallerhoff are founders of Protos Asset Management, a Swiss based cryptocurrency asset manager that brings the investing concepts of value, momentum and volatility to the crypto world in the form of a fully traditionally regulated Cayman Island based fund. Protos was set up in 2017 as the pair came out of a crypto investment business in Canada.
“Protos is an asset manager specialising in cryptocurrencies, using some of the traditional tools of hedge funds to manage risk using classic premia strategies,” says Shaw.
The first closed-end fund was launched in mid-December
Dominic Lawton-Smith (pictured) is head of Private Client & Private Equity at Cayman-based boutique fund administrator, trustee and corporate services firm JP Integra Group. The company is 11 years old, has Cayman trust, fund administration and corporate services licences, enabling it to work with private, institutional and sovereign clients and has over USD6 billion under administration.
It specialises in the provision of administrative and fiduciary services to clients with international investment, offering and estate planning projects in the long or short term. JP Integra leverages its offering and its legal and accounting skills with Cayman’s position as a key global
A brand-new social impact offset token has come out of a 25-year history of creating sustainable solutions for corporations, explains Todd Lemons (pictured), chairman of the Veridium Foundation.
Veridium is a collaborative initiative between a coalition of industry leaders including IBM, Stellar, Brian Kelly Capital Management, EnVision Corporation, and IDEAcarbon (a division of IDEAglobal),
Some 10 years ago, InfiniteEARTH (also part of the EnVision group of companies), authored the first forest carbon accounting methodology, now known as REDD+ (reducing emissions from avoided deforestation and degradation), which is now embodied in the Paris agreement.
The company developed the first internationally recognised
Q&A with Manuel Anguita (pictured), co-founder of top-performing blockchain- and crypto-focused hedge fund Silver 8…
How did Silver 8 come to invest in crypto assets in 2015?
Much of the credit must go to my business partner and Silver 8’s other co-founder, Jose Suarez, who is responsible for the vision. Jose has been a serial entrepreneur and tech investor for the best part of 25 years, experiencing first-hand the development of the internet. I have a very different background as I’m a financial markets professional, mainly in the hedge fund arena. We met 20 years ago when I was starting
It’s a true sign of the times. The two top performing hedge funds of 2018, according to data providers Preqin, are both focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
Silver 8 Capital – read about them further on in this report – managed the highest returning hedge fund last year focusing on financial technology, with a particular focus on blockchain and the crypto world, returning 770.74 per cent, while Global Advisors’ Bitcoin Investment Fund came in second with returns of 330.08, according to Preqin.
Further evidence comes from HFR, whose Cryptocurrency Index was up 155.70 per cent for the last 12 months to
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), an investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who investigate facts concerning investment programs, is to launch a professional due diligence designation program later this year.
The Chartered Due Diligence Analyst (CDDA) will be an internationally recognised designation developed to ISO 17024 and ANSI accreditation standards that rigorously tests for aptitude and expertise in due diligence. Each person who passes the exam becomes a Chartered Due Diligence Analyst® (CDDA), a designation that denotes one as an authority in the due diligence field.
“Understanding how money is invested and all the business and operational
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