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A number of distressed debt investors, including Attestor, Farallon Capital and Oaktree Capital, are set to benefit from bets that creditors of FTX Capital will recover more than expected, following the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange.
New Holland Capital, an alternative investment manager overseeing more than $5bn in discretionary absolute return strategies for institutional clients, has appointed Michael Fox as a Partner and Head of Strategy.
Global clearinghouse Eurex Clearing plans to start clearing repo trades for hedge funds by mid-2024, according to a report by Bloomberg citing remarks made by executive board member Matthias Graulich at the Derivatives Forum in Frankfurt last week.  
Commodities investments at Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management earned the multi-strategy major a solid $600m last year, but still far behind the bumper $4bn return for the asset class seen at rival Citadel, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A regulatory crackdown aimed at boosting investor confidence in China’s ailing stock markets saw short positions shrink by a third in February to the lowest level seen in three years, according to a report by Reuters.
A British hedge fund trader has been sentenced to eight years behind bars by a Danish court after admitting his part in the so-called ‘cum-ex’ tax scheme that defrauded the country’s tax authorities of billions of Danish crowns, according to a report by Reuters.
Statar Capital, a Miami-based hedge fund specialising in natural gas trading founded by former Citadel and DE Shaw Trader Ron Ozer, has booked big profits from a large bet on the easing of European gas market volatility sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Multi-strategy major Millennium Management is set to name Ken Pang, the former Co-Head of Markets at Credit Suisse, as its new Head of Equities, Asia based in Hong Kong, according to a report by Risk.net citing people familiar with the matter.
LedgerPrime, a quantitative and systematic digital assets hedge fund acquired by Sam Bankman-Fried’s now defunct FTX in 2021, has relaunched as MNNC Group, a Cayman Islands-registered multi-strategy hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg. 
London-based multi-strategy hedge fund Eisler Capital plans to raise between $1bn and $1.5bn of capital and increase its Portfolio Manager headcount to between 120 and 125 this year, according to a report by the Financial Times citing people familiar with the matter.

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