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Komainu, a regulated digital asset custody services provider built by institutions for institutions, has closed a USD25 million Series A fundraiser.
A social impact real estate fund run by London-based alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital has made a “real impact on individual lives”, an independent audit by King’s College London’s Policy Institute has found.
LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has appointed Stephanie Minister as Managing Director of Connectivity Services. In this role, she will lead a newly created arm of the LiquidityBook corporate structure.
Minister will spearhead business development efforts for LBX Connect, LiquidityBook’s proprietary managed FIX network, which enables users to interact with over 250 routing destinations across 80 markets globally in an intuitive and cost-effective manner. She will interface with exchanges, third-party network providers and institutional brokers in markets across the world to maximise network’s reach. She will also play a direct role in future
Foreside Financial Group (Foreside), a provider of governance, risk management, and compliance solutions and technology offerings to clients in the global asset and wealth management industry, has acquired the regulatory compliance business of JG Advisory Services LLC, a comprehensive regulatory solutions provider for hedge and private equity funds.
Based in New York, New York, JG Advisory Services has helped its clients meet regulatory requirements through creative compliance solutions since 2005. JG Advisory Services has worked with a wide range of hedge fund and private equity fund managers but has particular expertise with emerging managers.
Judy Gross, principal and founder of
BidFX, a cloud-based provider of electronic FX trading solutions for institutions and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SGX Group, has launched BidFX Data and Analytics.
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South East Asia’s first insured bitcoin fund, BCMG Genesis Bitcoin Fund-I (BGBF-I), has officially launched to address the growing global interest from institutional and corporate investors.
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The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published a memo that provides a framework for alternative investment managers to navigate the complexities of developing a Responsible Investment approach.
The memo, part of a series of SBAI publications and events on Responsible Investment (RI), focuses on key considerations for managers developing an RI Approach, critical questions for investors to ask during due diligence and guidance for documenting an RI Approach in an RI Policy. The memo provides a detailed analysis of the foundations and building blocks of an RI Approach. Areas of focus include Responsible Integration of RI-related risks, Responsible
FRAX, the world’s first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin, is bringing its US dollar-pegged stablecoin to Avalanche’s decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
Upon completion of the deployment (expected to be by 20 March), FRAX will expand the selection of stablecoins available on the platform and offer unique functionality as a decentralised, permissionless stablecoin.
FRAX employs a hybrid, fractional-algorithmic model that combines the best qualities of 100 per cent fiat-backed stablecoins and pure algorithmic stablecoins. It seeks to be the first stablecoin protocol to create scalable, trustless, stable, and ideologically pure on-chain money.
The team behind FRAX will expand to Avalanche by moving
Cyprus-regulated hedge fund ARK36 has partnered with France-based Prime Broker SheeldMarket to execute orders for a variety of digital assets.
ARK36 will maintain custody of its assets within the broker’s compliant and insured infrastructure while accessing liquidity through cutting-edge, algorithmic execution services. This is the first such partnership between EU-regulated buy and sell-side cryptocurrency firms.
At a time when bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have shown outstanding growth, both in price and trading volume, reports show that EU investors are seen as having a more favourable perception of digital assets relative to their US counterparts, with six out of
The hedge fund industry gathered further momentum during February, as managers generated positive performances across the strategy spectrum, with equities, macro, commodities, activist and cryptocurrency strategies generating particularly strong gains, new industry data shows.
Amid rapidly-evolving developments on vaccinations, energy policy, and inflation rises, Hedge Fund Research’s main Fund Weighted Composite index surged 4.05 per cent in February, and is now up 5.35 per cent since the start of 2021. Meanwhile, the investable HFRI 500 Fund Weighted Composite Index rose 2.22 per cent last month, and has generated 2.06 per cent during the first two months of the year, according
