By A Paris – A stable, clean country, with a sensible government – Japan is well set for building out its fund industry. Proposals are being made to overcome barriers like high tax levels and legal restrictions, promising lower income and inheritance tax
CloseCross has become the world’s first blockchain-based derivatives trading platform to be licensed under the European Union’s MIFID II regulations, enabling the company to accelerate plans for a market launch in March. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has added XRP (XRP), litecoin (LTC), EOS (EOS) and polkadot (DOT) as collateral on Bitfinex Borrow, a peer-to-peer (P2P) digital token loan portal.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Accern, a no-code AI platform, has launched the Accern AI Marketplace, which dramatically increases the speed enterprises can deploy and begin reaping the benefits of AI across their businesses. Accern’s AI Marketplace allows data scientists and business analysts to empower their
Cryptocurrency hedge fund, Tyr Capital Arbitrage SP, has teamed up with HedgeGuard, a provider of portfolio management software and services for traditional and crypto asset managers, to increase greater operational efficiency across its fund activities. With HedgeGuard’s technology, Tyr Capital
Managers should be looking to shore up their internal processes and security, focusing on improved end-point protection and appropriate training for staff to recognise anomalies. This is critical as cybersecurity develops further to keep ahead of the hackers.
Modular Asset Management, a specialist Asian macro alternative investment management company licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, has appointed Northern Trust for a new asset servicing mandate.Northern Trust will provide a range of custody, fund administration, middle-office outsourcing, collateral
2021 will see an “acceleration of trends” across the hedge fund industry, according to Jack Inglis, CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association, with the sector becoming more digitalised and more socially conscious, as managers play an “integral part” in
Digital asset investment products saw inflows of USD395 million despite a weak price environment, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Assets Flow report. The report reveals there were almost no outflows but highlights increasing hesitancy to invest among investors. To put
Northern Trust has paired up with Two Sigma to offer Venn, the quantitative investment specialist’s cloud-based analytics platform, to its clients.
