The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has the power to prosecute fraud involving virtual currency. James McDonald, CFTC Director of Enforcement, says: “This is an important ruling that
Caspian, a joint venture between institutional trading software provider TORA and blockchain advisory firm Kenetic, which is designed to bring institutional grade trade order, execution, compliance and portfolio risk management features to the crypto world, is to integrate with Coinbase to drive institutional participation
Opus Fund Services has launched Opus JET, a new net asset value (NAV) generating system which leverages smart automation to process all accounting entries for the preparation of NAV. Using proprietary technologies previously implemented across its Shared Service teams to
AMX, an open architecture marketplace for the buying and selling of asset management services, has launched Magnetar Capital (Magnetar) and Lomas Capital Management (Lomas) onto the platform. These additions bring AMX’s total offering to 17 funds – providing investors with
DAOstack’s native token GEN is to list on Liquid, a newly-launched cryptocurrency exchange by Quoine, starting on 9 October. GEN-ETH, GEN-BTC, and GEN-QASH trading pairs will be available to start, with GEN-fiat trading pairs available in the near future. DAOstack is
Bclear has processed its billionth derivatives contract, NYSE Liffe announced today. The news follows strong growth in Bclear volumes during 2010: last year Bclear processed 340m contracts, a 31 per cent increase on 2009. Bclear was launched in October
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has announced additional service improvements for 2019, as well as estimated 2019 user fees of 4 per cent below 2018 levels, assuming similar uptake of the service amongst the OTC derivatives community. The DSB is a fully
IIS, Drupal, and Oracle WebLogic web technologies experienced increased attacks in Q2 2018. According to a new threat report from eSentire, the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, IIS attacks showed a 782x increase, from 2,000 to 1.7
By Phillip Graham, Partner, Harneys – The BVI is reportedly the second biggest cryptocurrency market in the world, according to statistics published by CoinShares, which used data collected from the 15 biggest cryptocurrency exchanges and concluded that the BVI had a trading
Asset manager Letterone Treasury has selected Enfusion’s Integráta investment management platform. Letterone manages USD25 billion AUM, with over USD7 billion in a treasury portfolio primarily comprising fixed income, credit derivatives and private debt. Letterone transitioned from a large incumbent legacy
