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US crypto index fund manager Bitwise Asset Management’s Bitwise Bitcoin ETF has surpassed $2bn in AUM just two months after the Securities and Exchange Commission gave the go-ahead for the launch of the first spot bitcoin ETFs in the US.
Balyasny Asset Management has added three new Portfolio Mangers to its trading team in both its New York and Miami offices as part of a broader restructuring of the multi-strategy major’s equity trading business, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management is limiting new investor inflows in a bid to ensure it secures the best possible returns for existing clients, with AUM already sitting at a record high of $32bn, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched a global futures and options software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, designed to transform order and execution management capabilities for sell-side institutions and expand its existing derivatives trading capabilities. 
Basis trade positions, a strategy of trading the spread between cash Treasuries and their underlying futures could be on the slide as hedge funds unwind their short Treasury futures bets, according to a report by Bloomberg citing a Bank of America note.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, a post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has seen its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation Treasury clearing volumes grow 31% year over year, processing a daily average volume of $7.02tn. 
Sholto Maconochie, Head of Australia Real Estate – Equities Research at Jefferies, is set make a switch to the buy-side, having agreed to join Alex Wallis’ new investment “pod” at Millennium Management, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review.
Standard General, a New York-based hedge fund focused on opportunistic investing in levered US mid-market companies, has made a non-binding offer to acquire the remaining shares it does not already own in gaming and betting company Bally’s Corporation.
FlexTrade Systems, a provider of multi-asset execution and order management systems for equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, futures, options and digital assets, has directly integrated with Coinbase Prime, a prime broker platform for digital and crypto assets.  
TOP STORY: Qube Research & Technologies, the London-based quant hedge fund firm spun out of Credit Suisse in 2018, has built the largest ever short position against Barclays, representing 0.73% of the bank’s stock, according to a report by The Times.

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