Prime Services

Black Cowrie Prime Services

Black Cowrie Prime Brokerage is a gateway for hedge funds to access the firm’s global platform. By creating connectivity to Banking, Research, Sales and Trading, and Corporate Access for our clients, we seek to help funds successfully build their business and create alpha over business cycles. Prime Brokerage provides a full service offering including securities lending, financing, swaps, a best-in-class technology platform, and capital introductions and business consulting services for both start-up and existing managers. Our platform is fully self-clearing and provides global access to over 40 markets. In addition, Global Prime Services has achieved the SSAE Type II reporting standard.

Competitive Financing
  • Our firm has a strong foundation of prudent and stable capital strength; We can provide financing across a wide range of instruments in accordance with Regulation T or risk-based portfolio margin
Capital Intelligence
  • Black Cowrie Prime Services has combined its Business Consulting and Capital Introductions offering into a bundled Capital Intelligence advisory function for clients.
  • To provide the most effective advisory function to our clients, Black Cowrie Capital Intelligence leverages proprietary data and information flow tools to provide a more targeted and customized experience for its clients.
  • Black Cowrie Capital Intelligence works with an array of clients across Emerging Managers and Established Hedge Funds, servicing their needs across the fund life cycle.
Technology: Trading Systems & Reporting
  • The Black Cowrie Prime Brokerage Technology team offers clients a convenient and flexible electronic trading system with global execution capabilities and a full algo suite with access to multiple liquidity sources
  • Clients also receive access to Black Cowrie Portfolio Accounting and Reporting system which offers over 250 daily reports, customizable reporting capabilities, PnL tools, risk analytics, and an order management system
  • Black Cowrie Prime Brokerage technology team is committed to providing clients with an efficient trading system and report customization.
Securities Finance & Synthetic Prime Brokerage
  • As a market leader in securities lending, Black Cowrie provides customers with a differentiated experience – tapping unique sources of supply, applying a risk-based model to allow for better pricing and stability, along with access to traditional multi-trillion-dollar pools of lending assets
  • Black Cowrie Global Swap Product offers a full suite of solutions including single-stock equity, custom baskets and structured funding with unrivaled expertise in Special Situations across all regions
  • Black Cowrie Fully Paid Lending program provides a highly valuable alpha-generating program for long holders and short participants alike. The Black Cowrie Swap product includes a full suite of solutions, from structured funding to custom baskets, providing customers with synthetic access across the entirety of Black Cowrie Securities Finance capabilities
Client Services & Operations
  • Black Cowrie Client Service team has over 20 client service representatives in our New York and San Francisco offices with a collective average of 10 years of experience
  • Every new account receives assigned coverage, beginning with the onboarding experience and lasting throughout the lifecycle of the fund. Black Cowrie onboarding and client service teams provide our clients with the highest touch service and operational expertise
Outsourced Trading
  • Black Cowrie Outsourced Trading is a comprehensive and cost-effective global trading solution for asset managers, designed to be an extension of the firm’s investment process and enhance their trade execution needs
  • The team collaborates with a PM to provide global best execution in accordance with the urgency of trades, liquidity profile, and intraday directional views
  • The desk is walled off from the rest of the firm’s sales and trading areas to promote a compliant, conflict-free, buy-side structure.  We provide access to a global network of over 50 trading partners and liquidity venues while prioritizing broker-agnostic natural liquidity