Moonstake has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based RockX to support the Polkadot ecosystem. RockX runs its own Polkadot node, and in September, launched a USD20 million five-year investment programme in the ecosystem. Through this partnership, Moonstake and RockX
As warnings intensify about the need for regulation of digital assets across the UK and Europe, Gibraltar is adding to its already regulated digital ledger technology (DLT) framework with the development of a ‘10th Core Principle’, specifically for digital asset
As more hedge funds pile into cryptocurrencies, market inefficiencies and price dispersion are bringing fresh arbitrage opportunities for managers. Bitcoin’s sustained rally over the past year saw the cryptocurrency roar to a record high of more than USD41,000 in early
CME Group’s BrokerTec, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, has successfully migrated its European government bonds and repo trading platform to CME Globex. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Hector McNeil (pictured), co-Founder and co-CEO, HANetf presents his most recent commentary, arguing: The Case for Non-Transparent Active ETFs. Growth in the ETF industry is sustained, long-term and global – at the time of writing, there have been 51 months
Artemis Investment Management has appointed Iain MacPherson as a sales director in the firm’s Distribution team, effective March 2021. MacPherson will report to Adam Gent, Head of intermediary sales. MacPherson will join Artemis from Comgest, where since April 2018 he
K2 Advisors, the hedge fund investing unit of Franklin Templeton, says active-management alpha will be critical to hedge funds’ success this year, as the global economy mounts a tentative recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Brooks Ritchey and Robert Christian, co-heads
Switzerland-headquartered global asset manager GAM, which is home to Cambridge-based quantitative hedge fund unit GAM Systematic, is set to post a CHF380 million (USD426.4 million) loss in its full-year 2020 results published next month. The loss stems mainly from a
Stone Coast Fund Services, Basiz Fund Services and North Street Global are the latest firms to join the North American Fund Administration Association (NAFAA), a group for the alternative investment fund administration industry. “The alternative fund administration industry is transforming
A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom, a global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has found that in their efforts to stabilise trading revenues, proprietary trading firms are overwhelmingly interested in trading
