Singapore-based consultancy ComplianceAsia Consulting has launched iLearn, an online portal which provides compliance training programmes for Singapore’s asset managers, in partnership with the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS).
After the successful start of the Nordic Intraday markets end of May, the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and its clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) successfully launched their Day-Ahead markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, completing their offering
At a time when global stock exchanges are experiencing intense volatility and speculative, high-volume trading as the Covid-19 pandemic impacts equities markets, Transaction Network Services (TNS) has reported its North American backbone network recorded zero packet loss during the highest
The current stock market rebound is “out of step with economic reality”, according to Pictet Asset Management’s chief strategist Luca Paolini. While the sustained market resurgence appears to have bolstered equity and credit-focused hedge funds’ returns during May, Paolini warned that
Hermez Network, a decentralised zero-knowledge rollup (zk-rollup), isa launch tether tokens (USDt) on the protocol’s Layer 2 network, a solution designed to improve scalability on Ethereum to ensure cheaper transactions. Hermez will work with key projects ahead of its official launch
Crypto asset insurance company Evertas says crypto investment firms and exchanges could fail to meet the insurance requirements set by regulatory bodies because of a lack of capacity from insurers for covering these assets and a poor understanding of the risks associated with them. Evertas has analysed Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announcement at the end
Capitalab, a division of BGC Brokers, has completed the execution and subsequent compression of Capitalab’s first swaption margin optimisation trades leveraging LCH SwapAgent, a service for the non-cleared derivatives market. As part of Capitalab’s leading Rates Initial Margin Optimisation service, swaption
FundRock Management Company (FundRock), a European third-party UCITS Management Company (ManCo) and Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), has been confirmed as the biggest third-party ManCo in Luxembourg in PwC Luxembourg’s latest annual survey.The rankings measure the size of third-party ManCos
As the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines continues apace, equity markets look set to enjoy strong support in 2021, says Luca Paolini, chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management…
Decentralised exchange DeversiFi is relaunching as DeversiFi 2.0, integrating StarkWare’s zkSTARK layer-2 scaling technology to cater for high-speed, instant settlement and deep liquidity for professional cryptocurrency traders. This new integration enables traders to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated
