Press Releases

On Monday, February 15, 2021, Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced an unscheduled change to the MDAX and TecDAX indices.

Qontigo announced today that Sebastian Ceria, chief executive officer of the company, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), broadly recognized as one of the highest acknowledgments of achievement in the field of engineering.

Qontigo has been awarded buy-side market risk management product of the year by Risk.net’s Markets Technology Awards 2021 for its cloud-based portfolio risk management platform, Axioma RiskTM.

Redpoint has been a user of Axioma portfolio construction solutions for their Australian and global systematic strategies and will partner with Qontigo to produce joint research focused on customised investment solutions.

Qontigo has licensed the iSTOXX® Global Transformation Select 30 Index to Citi to underlie a structured product. The index represents an investment targeted at key areas driving deep societal and economic change.

Qontigo has become a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the United Nations-supported proponent of responsible investing, underscoring Qontigo’s commitment to advance sustainability in the global investment community.

Qontigo announced today the appointment of Brian McArthur-Muscroft as Chief Financial Officer. McArthur-Muscroft was formerly CFO of Micro Focus International plc, the British multinational software and information technology company, where he also served as a member of the board of directors since 2018.

Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced changes to the DAX index family, which will become effective on 21 December 2020.

Qontigo launched its first Worldwide Equity Linked Factor Risk Model, providing targeted factor exposures through a combination of the Axioma US, Developed Markets ex-US and Emerging Market Equity Factor Risk Models.

Qontigo today announced the new composition of STOXX Benchmarks and their sub and sector indices, among them the STOXX Europe 600 Index, STOXX North America 600 Index, STOXX Asia/Pacific 600 Index and STOXX Global 1800 Index.

Qontigo has been named as the category winner for portfolio and factor modeling by Chartis Research in their RiskTech100® rankings for the second consecutive year. Qontigo also placed 18th in the overall analysis of the “world’s major players in risk and compliance technology.”

Qontigo has licensed three indices to Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd., which underlie respective exchange-traded notes (ETNs) listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. All three indices have a Japan focus: iSTOXX® MUTB Japan Empowering Women 30, iSTOXX® MUTB Japan ESG 30 and iSTOXX® MUTB Japan Market Share Leaders.