Global crypto derivatives exchange Bitget has appointed Gracy Chen as managing director, with responsibility for Bitget’s growth strategies. With presence in over 50 countries around the world, Bitget has been growing at pace. Earlier this year, the exchange’s derivatives trading
Despite significant challenges in the hedge fund industry in 2021, such as the GameStop short squeeze, insurance companies still allocated nearly $1 billion to new hedge fund investments in 2021, according to a new AM Best report.
Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled trading infrastructure to the global capital markets, and Code Willing, a specialist in financial data management, have launched end-to-end data platform products Options Data Store and Quantify. Options Data Store offers traders and researchers
Acrisure, a Fintech specialist that operates a top-10 global insurance broker, has closed a $725 million in Series B-2 Preferred Equity funding at a $23 billion valuation, representing a 31% increase from its last preferred equity raise in March 2021.
The incoming EMIR Refit regulation will increase sell-side and investment firms’ reporting requirements to a level where submitting new data fields and new combinations of actions and events could cause significant delays and run the risk of fines, a study
Chinese macro hedge fund manager Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center has adopted a more positive stance on domestic stocks according to a report by Bloomberg. Founder Li Bei believes the CSI 500 Index, a benchmark widely tracked by local hedge
Activist investor Nelson Peltz has joined Unilever as a non-executive director with effect from 20 July, according to a report by MarketWatch.
Part 2 – Tax Considerations For any Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), the main factors that define the success of their business will be the amount of capital they are able to raise and the performance of the funds that
Synaptic, an alternative data insights start-up, has closed a $20 million Series B funding round led by Valor Equity Partners.
San Francisco-based hedge fund Inclusive Capital Partners (In-Cap) has made a £1.5 billion bid to acquire UK-based housebuilder Countryside Partnerships, according to a report by the Financial Times. In-Cap went public with its offer to acquire the business on Monday
