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Global Digital Finance (GDF), the global cryptoassets and digital finance industry membership body which promotes best practices for cryptoassets and digital finance technologies, has appointed Carl Schonander as its Regulatory Affairs Director for the US and the Americas.
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Family office-backed alternative asset manager Trium Capital has attracted hedge fund manager Peter Kisler to manage his global macro hedge fund. Kisler has managed the fund since its inception a decade ago. He joined Trium in March 2021 and the Cayman fund will be renamed the Trium Larissa Global Macro Fund.
Kisler joins from North Asset Management, where he managed his strategy since its inception in April 2011. Prior to this, Kisler built up more than a decade of experience trading and managing fixed income and FX instruments. Kisler was a managing director at Swiss Re Group, London, from
Blockchain-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross has expanded its management team with the appointment of Joseph Portelli as its first chairman.
Currently Chairman at the Malta Stock Exchange, he brings more than 35-years’ experience of the financial services industry to the fintech company which is planning to launch its trading platform in the first half of this year.
CloseCross, which has offices in London and Malta, has developed and patented its own derivatives trading platform for customers to invest without the involvement of major banks issuing derivatives or having to take on leverage. It was recently awarded a MIFID II licence,
Global multi-asset manager Fulcrum Asset Management has appointed head of equities Fawaz Chaudhry and lead portfolio manager Stephen Crewe as partners at the firm.
Long-running systematic macro hedge fund IPM says the Covid-19 pandemic “aggravated” an already challenging situation for the firm, leading to its decision to shut down the business.
Tether Operations Limited (Tether), the blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, has surpassed USD50 billion in market capitalisation as the pre-eminent stablecoin paves the way to power a new digital economy and future alternative financial system.
USDt is making waves beyond its native digital token space as the wider financial system recognises the monumental technological advance that the pre-eminent stablecoin represents. As the most liquid, stable and trusted stablecoin, USDt offers a faster, cheaper and more intuitive modern form of money.
USDt’s exponential growth – which has seen its market capitalisation grow by more than a
York Capital Management (York), a global private investment firm, and Kennedy Lewis Investment Management (Kennedy Lewis), an opportunistic credit manager, have formed a strategic partnership to form a new entity to be called Generate Advisors.
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SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, says it has completely revolutionised market abuse and communications monitoring with its innovative new lexicon technology.
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Utopia Genesis Foundation, an organisation formed to support the ecosystem development around blockchain-powered music royalties platform, Utopia Genesis, has launched three new platforms geared towards artists and creators in the music industry.
Investment research solutions provider ResearchPool, has announced a strategic collaboration with IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, to give access to ResearchPool’s advanced solutions for investment research, content discovery and management to IHS Markit’s customers – particularly institutional investors needing to manage sellside and independent research.
ResearchPool and IHS Markit share a vision to build a leading investment research community, including institutional investors, research providers and corporations. To advance this vision, IHS Markit is enabling institutional investors and research providers to connect to ResearchPool’s cloud-based platform that currently hosts two million-plus pieces of award-winning investment research
