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NEWSLETTER | 8 Jul 2020

Lansdowne Partners’ flagship hedge fund draws shutters on shorting, switching focus to long-only investing

Lansdowne Partners, the long-running London-based hedge fund firm, is restructuring its flagship Developed Markets Fund to focus solely on long-only investments, and will no longer employ short-selling in the strategy, in a major shift in focus for the high-profile manager.

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

Hedge funds that built major short positions against UK supermarkets at the start of the coronavirus lockdown have seen their bets go awry as share prices in the sector remained resilient.

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

TriOptima, an infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and to mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, has extended data connectivity between The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Global Trade Repository (GTR) service and TriOptima's triResolve platform.

Copper Catalyst to make digital assets bankable

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

Copper, a London based digital asset infrastructure provider, has launched Copper Catalyst, a next-generation framework designed to bridge the gap between traditional financial markets and the emerging crypto investment space.

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

OneChronos is to launch a new AI-powered dark pool/alternative trading system designed to provide fully customisable solutions for traders who want to minimise information leakage and maximise opportunities for price improvement.

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

IOWArocks has added Marex Spectron into its rapidly expanding community of content creators and content consumers.

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

London-based Prime Broker Forte Securities has selected Profile Software's Asia platform for its investment management and custody operations.

TNS adds Cboe to market data roster

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

Transaction Network Services (TNS) has signed a new agreement with Cboe Europe, one of the largest pan-European equities stock exchange operators by value-traded, to become a registered vendor for its European equities market data.

Canoe Intelligence and SS&C partner to streamline alternative investment workflows

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

Canoe Intelligence (Canoe), a fintech focused on improving alternative investment operations, has partnered with SS&C Technologies to enable enables SS&C’s Black Diamond Wealth Platform clients to simplify and accelerate their alternative investment operational processes.

Wed | 8 Jul 2020, 12:12

LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has appointed Chris Junge as Vice President of Customer Success.