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A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom and Deribit, offers insights into how proprietary trading firms are approaching the cryptocurrency markets, both spot and derivatives.
The survey also explores how this differs between those firms created specifically to trade these assets vs firms entering these markets alongside their existing business trading “traditional” assets.
Proprietary trading firms have been early adopters of crypto derivatives:
81 per cent of those already trading crypto derivatives do so alongside the spot market.
Some 40 per cent began trading spot before moving onto derivatives, 32 per cent started with derivatives and
Versor Investments, a quantitative investment management firm focused on alternative investment strategies, has published a new white paper titled “The Environment for Merger Arbitrage: 2021.”
The paper is co-authored by Versor Founding Partners Deepak Gurnani and Ludger Hentschel who have over 40 years of combined experience in quantitative investing and research. This paper follows Versor’s previous release in February of a white paper titled “Global Macro: Portfolio Diversification for Turbulent Times.”
The new paper, which looks at merger arbitrage trends over the past 18 years, provides perspective on the attractiveness of the current merger market environment. The paper also examines
IOWArocks, the global marketplace for data, tech, and services, has added First To Invest to its established data marketplace.
First To Invest use big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events on public, private companies, and specific topics from news articles, press releases, and financial social media. They cover 10,000 companies globally with 400 corporate event categories including; M&A, new deals, partnerships, ESG, regulatory decisions, management and stakeholder changes, expansions to new markets or product categories, new products, price changes, new agreements, FDA decisions, financial reports related events, macroeconomics, and much more.
Jordan Mizrahi, First To Invest
On the back of impressive performance in 2020, this is the time for hedge fund managers to seize the moment and build on the momentum, and growing investor appetite in the asset class.
Quantile Technologies (Quantile), a provider of multilateral optimisation services, has become the first vendor to offer optimisation of cleared USD/CAD, USD/DKK, USD/MXN, USD/NOK, USD/NZD, USD/SEK, USD/SGD and USD/ZAR non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) within their initial margin (IM) optimisation runs for foreign exchange.
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Substantive Research, a research discovery and research spend analytics provider for the buy-side, has launched a new, integrated dashboard providing asset managers with detailed insights on their research providers’ pricing, sector coverage and investment in analyst teams.
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Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has been awarded Microsoft Cloud Service Provider Status in Canada.
This achievement marks the latest milestone in Options’ continued efforts to offer a fully cloud-agnostic platform to all customers globally. The addition of Cloud Provider Status in Canada is part of an initiative to bring increased solution flexibility to clients, and it will allow for full Public Cloud solution deployments. Alongside the existing CloudConnect solution, Options can provide solution architecture, deployment and management services utilising Microsoft’s global Public Cloud.
Achieving this status enables Options to procure and manage
Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a specialist in technology solutions for the equity, equity options, and futures, is to launch a sell-side Order Management System (OMS) allowing clients to streamline their trading operations later this year.
The STT OMS will allow Sterling clients to consolidate their order flow from multiple platforms allowing for cross platform risk and compliance checks as well as reporting. All Sterling platforms, third party providers, and orders delivered via API will be integrated to connect and utilise the OMS as its transactional ledger via a FIX API or REST API for two-way data transport. Additionally, routing can
Dymon Asia, an Asia-focused alternative investment manager, has expanded a multi-year relationship to further leverage Hazeltree’s cash management capabilities across its treasury and operational organisation.
Hazeltree helps Dymon’s treasury team manage operational risks, strengthening its cash management controls, driving efficiencies and optimizing excess cash.
Hazeltree provides a comprehensive treasury and securities finance cloud-based solution to alternative asset managers globally. With complex multi-strategy investments, meeting Dymon Asia’s treasury and portfolio finance needs requires the domain expertise, experience, and technology that Hazeltree delivers.
Two years ago, Dymon Asia implemented Hazeltree Cash Manager to enable centralised aggregation and monitoring of cash balances
Man Numeric sees quant credit funds as opportunity “to go against the grain”
Man Numeric sees quant credit funds as opportunity “to go against the grain”