Forefront Fintech Digest Week in Review: May 30- June 2
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Broker News
Goldman Sachs Weighs Fresh Job Cuts as Dealmaking Drought Persists
Financial Times | Joshua Franklin?
Goldman Sachs is weighing a fresh round of job cuts amid a prolonged decrease in dealmaking that has hit profits at the investment bank, said people familiar with the matter. Plans are being made to eliminate fewer than 250 jobs across the bank, primarily at the senior level including managing directors, one of the people said. The prospective move would follow deeper cuts in January of roughly 3,200 jobs, or 6.5 per cent of its employees, leaving a workforce of about 45,000 employees worldwide.?
TD and Cowen’s Prime Brokerage and Outsourced Trading Unit Agree to Part Ways
The TRADE News | Annabel Smith
TD Bank Group and TD Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading division are to diverge on mutually agreed terms months after their merger. According to sources familiar with the matter, the pair have communicated to clients that they have jointly concluded it would be in the best interests of clients if the prime brokerage and outsourced trading business were divested to a partner more “strategically and geographically aligned” to the platform. TD Bank Group and TD Cowen declined to comment.?
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Exchange, ATS & Clearing News
The Stock Exchange of Thailand Leverages Nasdaq Technology for New Trading System
The TRADE News | Wesley Bray
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has launched a new trading system, alongside market data distribution and market surveillance systems, based on Nasdaq technology. The newly developed solution will support increasing transaction volumes and a range of investment products, while further enhancing the integrity of the market. According to SET, all systems are operating at full efficiency in line with international standards and best practice. This implementation falls in line with the ongoing development of the modern Thai capital market, which aims to promote economic growth and stability, as well as developing people’s standard of living.
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Euronext Continues Investment in Clearing Business with 50 New Hires
The TRADE News | Annabel Smith
Euronext is approaching the end of a two-year hiring spree for its new clearing business as it continues to invest in the division as a core pillar of its future strategy. The exchange group set out plans at the end of 2021 to grow the Euronext Clearing’s headcount by 65% at the end of 2023, amounting to roughly 50 new hires across its risk, technology, sales and product development functions. As part of the growth, Euronext is also increasing its footprint in London, due to some of its largest clearing clients being based there, and in Paris, due to an existing large physically delivered derivatives contract.
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Vendor News
LiquidityBook Hires Twitter Alum Cavin Woo to Spearhead Software Engineering Development
Press Release | N/A
LiquidityBook, a leading provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions, announced today the hire of Cavin Woo as Principal Software Engineer. Reporting directly to Chief Technology Officer, Shawn Samuel, Mr. Woo will lead software development efforts for the firm’s growing suite of multifaceted trade management solutions. In this role, Mr. Woo will focus on building out LiquidityBook’s execution management system as the firm sets its sights on continuing the expansion of its diverse client base.?
Cboe Europe Indices Latest to Be Integrated into BMLL Product Suite
The TRADE News | Claudia Preece
Historical Level 3 data provider BMLL has added Cboe Europe Indices to its product suite – and is now available via its research and data visualisation tools, BMLL Data Lab, BMLL Data Feed and BMLL Vantage. Speaking in an announcement, BMLL highlighted the importance of the addition of new data sets in enhancing data coverage for market participants globally. Paul Humphrey, chief executive of BMLL, said: “Our clients and market participants overall are demanding increasingly comprehensive data sets to understand market behaviour and we are delighted to provide them with the insights they need to make more informed trading decisions.”?
J.P. Morgan AM, Clearwater Analytics Integrate Platforms
Markets Media | Staff
Clearwater Analytics, a leading provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced a strategic partnership that will integrate Clearwater with the MORGAN MONEY? global trading platform, allowing permissioned users to easily navigate between both systems. The joint solution will make it easier for financial professionals to have a global, connected view of their investment portfolios and empower them to make real-time investment decisions on the Clearwater and Morgan Money platforms.
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Buy-Side News
Goldman, AQR Alumni Start Niche Hedge Fund With Backing From Cliff Asness
Bloomberg News | Amanda L Gordon
A new multistrategy hedge fund run by Wall Street veterans Brian Hurst and Elisha Wiesel began trading Thursday, focusing on offbeat strategies such as temperature arbitrage. Hurst, a 21-year veteran of AQR Capital Management, and Wiesel, who spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are starting Niche Plus as ClearAlpha Technologies’ first fund. With commitments of several hundred million dollars, it expects to have $1 billion within a year to deploy across 13 teams running 20 strategies.?
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Hedge Funds Are Deploying ChatGPT to Handle All the Grunt Work
Bloomberg News | Justina Lee & Saijel Kishan
The latest artificial-intelligence hype is powering a massive surge in the stock market on bets that a new era of innovation is nigh. Yet for money managers who weaponize computing advances for an investing edge, the era of ChatGPT holds a less lofty promise for now: Automating the grunt work. So-called generative AI is already helping to speed up mundane tasks known to crush the spirit of junior Wall Street employees, hedge funds say — from reviewing reams of market research to writing basic code and summarizing fund performance.
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Polar Capital’s Head of Trading Departs for Rival Hedge Fund Millennium
The TRADE News | Annabel Smith
Polar Capital’s head of trading Alex Jenkins has left the boutique hedge fund to join rival Millennium later this year, The TRADE can reveal. Her new title is unconfirmed. However, The TRADE understands that it is not a trading role. Polar Capital confirmed Jenkins’ departure. Millennium declined to comment. Jenkins has been head of trading at Polar Capital for three and a half years, joining in 2019 after serving with Highbridge Capital Management for five years as its head of European trading.
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M&A / Investment News
Regnology Enters into Exclusive Talks to Acquire Invoke
Business Wire | Staff
Regnology, a leading software provider with a focus on regulatory reporting solutions, announces today it expects to sign a definitive agreement to acquire Invoke, a French-based provider of financial, regulatory, and tax reporting solutions for supervisory authorities, and reporting entities. On completion of the agreement, the deal would mark the fifth acquisition in less than a year for Regnology. With 160+ full-time employees, Invoke serves over 1,800 regulated entities and supervisory authorities throughout Europe with its XBRL-based banking, insurance, and tax reporting solutions.?
Chainalysis Acquires Real-Time Crypto Data Company Transpose
The Block | Tim Copeland
Crypto analytics firm Chainalysis acquired Transpose, a blockchain data and infrastructure company, for an undisclosed sum.Transpose provides access to real-time blockchain data, including swaps on decentralized exchanges and NFT sales, using APIs. It supports seven blockchain networks, including Ethereum as well as newer Layer 2 networks like Scroll and Arbitrum.The New York-based company claims to work with crypto firms like blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack. Its team comprises individuals who have previously worked at companies like Morgan Stanley, Tesla and Jump Crypto.
Tradeweb Confirms Purchase of Australian Bond Trading Platform Yieldbroker
The DESK | Dan Barnes
Multi-asset market operator, Tradeweb Markets has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Yieldbroker, an Australian trading platform for Australian and New Zealand government bonds and interest rate derivatives covering the institutional, wholesale, and primary segments. This follows an announcement made in April and the transaction will try to leverage both firms’ trading solutions and industry experience to create more liquid, transparent and efficient fixed income markets.
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Regulatory & Legal News
Winklevoss Twins’ Exchange Seek Dismissal of SEC Lawsuit Over Gemini Earn
Reuters |?Jonathan Stempel
An exchange run by the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss on Friday asked a U.S. judge to dismiss a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit claiming it illegally sold unregistered securities in a program that promised high interest rates to hundreds of thousands of investors. Gemini Trust Co's request was filed in Manhattan federal court, in response to the SEC's Jan. 12 civil lawsuit against the exchange and the cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Capital LLC, a unit of Digital Currency Group.?
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Harvey Pitt, SEC Chairman During 9/11 and Enron Meltdown, Dies at 78
Wall Street Journal | Mark Maurer & Richard Vanderford
Harvey Pitt, who served as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the early 2000s, died on Tuesday at the age of 78, his family said. Pitt, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., ran the U.S. securities regulator from 2001 to 2003 under President George W. Bush, leading the agency’s response to market disruption from the 9/11 attacks and its rule making in the wake of the accounting scandal at energy company Enron. He served as chairman for a turbulent 18 months, including three months following his resignation as a successor was sought.
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Crypto?& Digital Asset News
Coinbase Derivatives Launches Institutional Futures Offering
Markets Media | Staff
Coinbase Derivatives Exchange, our CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, is excited to announce the launch of our institutional futures offering with Bitcoin and Ether contracts on June 5. Since the successful launch of our nano Bitcoin (BIT) and nano Ether (ET) contracts, we have seen institutional interest and the demand for advanced derivatives products. With the launch of these institutional-sized USD-settled contracts, we look to empower institutional participants with greater precision in managing crypto exposure, expressing directional views, or tracking Bitcoin and Ether returns in a capital-efficient way.?
Wall Street Prepares to Take On Established Crypto Companies
Financial Times | Nikou Asgari
Some of the finance industry’s best-known names are building their own digital markets trading platforms, betting that fund managers will prefer familiar and trusted brands to the opaque cryptocurrency exchanges that dominate the sector. Standard Chartered, Nomura and Charles Schwab are among the traditional financial institutions that are creating or backing new, separate crypto companies, including exchange and custody groups that can handle digital tokens such as bitcoin and ether.?
Caroline Ellison: How a Young Math Whiz with an Appetite for Risk Became a Major Player in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Corrupt Crypto Empire
Fortune | Courtney Rubin
At a blond-wood table in a serene Japanese restaurant on a tree-lined street in Murray Hill, Manhattan, the 26-year-old Caroline Ellison was asked a pointed question by one of her friends. "Are you a millionaire or a billionaire?" It was July July 2021, and Ellison was soon to be appointed co-CEO of cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, in San Francisco’s Bay Area. On a visit back to New York City, she had met up with a couple of friends and her younger sister for dinner, followed by a walk and ice cream from Ample Hills.
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