TriOptima, an infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and to mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, now offers integration via SWIFT to the four main tri-party agents; BNY Mellon, Clearstream, Euroclear and JPMorgan. TriOptima’s clients will have direct connectivity
Cryptocurrencies continue to face considerable counterparty and exchange risk, which threatens to turn away larger institutional investors from the market – and industry participants say more should be done to bridge the infrastructure gap between digital and traditional assets.
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has significantly expanded its low latency global backbone across the Asia Pacific region and now offers access to most Asian exchanges including major financial players such as Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Singapore Exchange (SGX)
Tether Operations (Tether), the blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, has surpassed USD60 billion in market capitalisation as market participants flooded to tether tokens (USDt) in the face of recent market turbulence.
Digital asset investment products saw net outflows for the second consecutive week last week, totalling a new record of USD97 million, according to the latest Digital Assets Fun Flows weekly report from CoinShares. The outflow remains low, representing only 0.2
Digital assets investment products saw a sixth consecutive week of outflows totalling USD22m, bringing the total six week run of outflows to USD115 million, according to the latest Weekly Digital Assets Fund Flows report from CoinShares. Despite the continued negative
Diginex Limited, a digital assets financial services company, has announced that combined 24-hour spot and derivative volumes on its EQUOS cryptocurrency exchange reached a record-high, exceeding USD200 million on May 20, 2021. Trading volume for the past 30 days has
As cryptocurrencies continue to experience violent price shocks, new industry research shows crypto hedge funds’ assets under management have almost doubled to some USD3.8 billion, with traditional managers increasingly eyeing the sector after returns soared in 2020.
Despite a challenging fundraising environment, the new Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance regulation (LPF) has the potential to make Hong Kong the preferred domicile for investment funds in Asia, especially once travel restrictions are lifted. As investors seek to broaden their portfolios,
Hong Kong recently introduced regulatory reforms, policies and incentives to drive growth and increase Hong Kong’s attractiveness as a fund domicile. The newly adopted Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance (LPF) bill allows Hong Kong’s private equity firms to launch limited partnership
