The third annual research report into the global Crypto Hedge Fund space, commissioned by PwC and Elwood Asset Management, has seen Gibraltar secure its place as the third preferred jurisdiction for the domiciliation of hedge funds, behind the Cayman Islands
Tether, the blockchain-enabled platform behind the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, and Compound, a decentralised lending market, are spearheading growth in the nascent decentralised finance (DeFi) space as USDt volume on the platform has surged above USD100 million.
CME Group has launched the FTSE 100 Adjusted Interest Rate (AIR) Total Return futures. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Major growth in the trading of cryptocurrency assets, including during the Covid-19 pandemic, is driving demand for low latency access to the Amazon Cloud (AWS) in London from sophisticated institutional investors, operating in the derivatives market in particular. Since the
TraditionDATA, the data and information services division of Compagnie Financière Tradition (Tradition), has added more depth to its alternative data set following Tradition’s execution of its first TONAR-SOFR cross-currency basis swap. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Despite only launching in 2019, SIGTech’s quant trading platform is now being used by fund managers with a combined AUM of USD312 billion.
Hedge funds that trade emerging markets advanced almost 6 per cent in the first four months of the year, with China, India and Middle East specialist managers leading the pack, as gains from regional equities and cryptocurrencies drove profits in
GTS, an electronic market maker across global financial instruments, is joining the Pyth Network, a decentralised financial market data distribution platform. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Independent outsourced trading solutions firm Outset Global (outsetglobal.com) has appointed Edward McCabe as a Managing Director in the firm’s New York office. McCabe brings with him a wealth of specialist knowledge in trading equity markets and extensive buy-side experience, which
Tourmaline Partners, an outsourced trading solutions firm, has appointed industry experts David Toy and Chris Arkin as senior traders. With these new hires, Tourmaline further enhances its capabilities in the Australia-Pacific (APAC) region and in the derivatives trading space, as
