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Prime brokerage: The intersection of challenge and opportunity

The TRADE

Instead, a combination of rising interest rates, inflation, soaring energy prices and geopolitical tensions have hit hedge funds, and subsequently the risk management practices of prime brokers. With the larger banks focusing on larger AUMs and higher revenue clients, there is a battle for new launches and emerging managers.

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What is Deregulation and How Does it Affect the Financial Sector?

Peak Frameworks

Financial deregulation, for example, saw a pivotal moment with the partial repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 , a move that obliterated the firewalls between commercial and investment banking and profoundly influenced the landscape of financial services.

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Fireside Friday with… FINBOURNE Technology’s Tom McHugh

The TRADE

It’s about finding the balance which reduces duplication, synchronisation issues, translation problems, and breaks, while maintaining the controls required for financial services. If you look at sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, as a macro trend, they’re starting to insource more of their own risk management.

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How Merchant Banks Help Businesses Grow and Succeed

Razorpay

Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. Merchant banking is a special branch of banking that provides financial services to medium to small-sized businesses. What is a Merchant Bank?

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Replicating Portfolio

Wall Street Mojo

Leveraging derivatives to capture the best results at a given point in time may help portfolio managers achieve closely matching outcomes, in addition to performance monitoring, effective risk management , risk diversification , etc. Such portfolios enable timely financial reporting.

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Our List of 10 Private Equity Firms Investing in Software to Watch

Software Equity Group

And it typically boils down to a few common elements that successful SaaS companies do particularly well: High-quality SaaS companies feature predictable, recurring revenues, solid unit economics , and high gross margin and gross profit rates. The firm employs 246 professionals. The firm has made 878 total investments since inception.

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

The TRADE

“If you look at what those firms need in terms of prime-related services, well, cash PB and synthetics are just the basics. When you go through these really volatile periods of time, if the multi-managers that are really well diversified do come out stronger than monoline hedge funds, then there is an argument for investors.

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