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TheCityUK Unveils Plan To Support The UK’s Post-Pandemic And Post-Brexit Economic Future

Date 15/04/2021

TheCityUK today publishes its plan to ensure the strength of the UK-based financial and related professional services industry helps to power recovery and growth over the next decade as the UK emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic and makes its way in the world outside of the EU.

BNP Paribas Goes Live On CurveGlobal Markets Listed Futures Exchange For Traders

Date 15/04/2021

CurveGlobal is delighted to announce that BNP Paribas is now live for their house STIR traders, enabling them to access the CurveGlobal short-term interest rate futures that clear at LCH. This complements their client offering of execution and clearing services on CurveGlobal.

Introducing HKEX's New Podcast - HKEXVoice

Date 15/04/2021

EP1: A look at the growth and development of Hong Kong’s derivatives market | Wilfred Yiu

EDHEC-Risk Institute: The Performance Of Hedge Funds Strategies Is Riding The Stock Market Wave

Date 15/04/2021

The EDHEC-Risk team is pleased to release the latest performance update of the EDHEC-Risk Alternative Indexes.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Bans And Fines Financial Adviser £68,300 For Lacking Honesty And Integrity

Date 15/04/2021

The FCA has banned Simon Varley from working in financial services and fined him £68,300 for knowingly performing a controlled function without approval and for providing investment advice to retail customers when he knew he was not qualified or approved to do so.

Moscow Exchange: The Additional Trading Session Starts Later For Derivatives Market On 5, 6, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 May 2021

Date 15/04/2021

Please note that the Derivatives Market evening trading session will begin five minutes later, i.e. at 7:05 pm MSK, on 5, 6, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 May 2021, as these are the last trading days for options contracts (in accordance with clause 6.2 of the Rules of organized trading for the Moscow Exchange Derivatives Market).

Barclays Clears The First Client Trade Through ForexClear’s International Clearing Broker Model

Date 15/04/2021

• Barclays and LCH’s ForexClear process the first FX client clearing trade under the international clearing broker model
• Barclays is offering clearing of FX derivatives to its clients
• Allows Barclays clients access to LCH’s clearing services, benefitting from risk management and operational efficiencies
• ForexClear provides client and dealer-to-dealer clearing services for FX Non-Deliverable Forwards and Options as well as dealer-to-dealer clearing services for Deliverable FX Options, Spot and Forwards
• In 2020, ForexClear processed $19.1 trillion in cleared notional; $167.2 billion of this was cleared by clients

TORA Strengthens US Team With New Sales Hire - Mark Moran Joins TORA’s US Sales Team

Date 15/04/2021

TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS) and portfolio management system (PMS), has announced the appointment of Sales Director, Mark Moran.

Maven Invests £2.5 Million In Big Data Analytics Business Cardinality

Date 15/04/2021

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active investors in growth businesses, has today announced that it has invested £2.5 million in Cardinality Ltd, a software and service provider which has developed a data ingestion and analytics platform called ‘Perception’, that enables its customers to run, manage and derive value from datasets in real time and at massive scale.

Apex Group: Five Technology Considerations For Asset Managers

Date 15/04/2021

Apex Group, the global financial services providers to $1trn of assets, has  just published its latest whitepaper on the digital shift taking place in the asset management sector and the long-term trends that are driving the need for more innovative approaches by asset managers.