YRD Capital, a Fund of Funds (FoF) focused on quantitative trading in digital assets, has appointed Ian Morely as Chairman.Founded in 2017, YRD Capital has the longest performing track record in the digital asset sector and has enjoyed year on
Rhenman & Partners Asset Management, a Stockholm-based sector-specialist hedge fund firm, says 2020 is poised to be “a good year” for its flagship healthcare strategy, after it posted a double-digit return for the second month in a row.
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, has launched its framework to regulate spot crypto asset activities, including those undertaken by exchanges, custodians and other intermediaries. This follows the successful completion of a public consultation
Stock markets carried April’s momentum into May and hedge funds were among the beneficiaries posting a 2.71 per cent monthly return, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P 500
Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, has added David Pearson to its product team. Pearson brings over thirty years of experience working in technology solutions for financial markets, focusing on workflow and automation in the front office
Everysk Technologies, an investment technology company providing multi-asset portfolio analytics with data-centric, machine learning techniques, has appointed Terri Engelman Rhoads, a former partner of Guggenheim Group, and tech entrepreneur Rufus Griscom, to its Board of Advisers.The company also announced that
DEx.top, a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange incubated by Bitmain and based in Switzerland, has launched successfully after completing a two-week trial period. The platform has performed over 1,400 ETH in trading volume and signed around 10,000 new users. Three new collaborations
The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) will launch two new futures contracts – FTSE4Good TIP Taiwan ESG (F4G TIP TW ESG) Index Futures and TIP Taiwan Market Biotechnology and Medical Care (TIP Taiwan BIO) Index Futures on 8 June, 2020. The addition
Alpha Sigma Capital (ASC), a digital assets fund focused on delivering growth capital to blockchain and tokenised projects has launched what it says is the first-ever fundamental research model on blockchain companies with tradable digital assets and blockchain ecosystems that are
By Jim Neumann, CIO, Sussex Partners – The news that Blackrock is to advise the European Commission on how the EU could boost the growth of green finance and build the market for sustainable financial products is a welcome announcement.
