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The world’s first causal AI platform, created by deep-tech scaleup causaLens, is being leveraged by financial services companies, including Aviva Investors, 2IQ, TIAA, CLS Group and a raft of prominent hedge funds), to automatically extract valuable causal insights from financial data and therefore boost the profitability of their trading strategies.
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Founded in 2015 by David Meneret (above left), a former Macquarie senior portfolio manager and structured credit specialist of almost 20 years, New York-based credit hedge fund Mill Hill Capital believes the current market landscape offers fertile ground for its market neutral, relative value investment style.
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of end-to-end technology solutions, has become a Sponsoring Partner of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
AIMA represents more than 2,000 corporate members in 60-plus countries, collectively managing in excess of USD2 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets. The organisation provides leadership in industry initiatives including advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programs and sound practice guides.
The partnership enables AIMA’s member firms to take advantage of Eze Castle Integration’s award-winning managed services. This includes complete cloud solutions, IT, cybersecurity and digital services, designed specifically for the financial industry and relied upon by
Blockchain platform Telos has launched of TSwaps, its new full-featured DeFi platform.
The TSwaps platform allows for direct swaps of both telos tokens and low-slippage USD stablecoins, and includes yield farming liquidity pools, transaction mining rewards and a cross-chain token bridge between Telos and EOS with the telos to bitcoin and ethereum bridges to be integrated soon.
The TSwaps platform has a simple swap interface to allow for the creation of liquidity pools to exchange between a number of Telos-based tokens against one another, plus pegged versions of BTC, ETH, EOS, and USD. Users will be shown an estimated
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bybit has launched three new USDT trading pairs with Cardano’s ADA, Polkadot’s DOT and Uniswap’s UNI.
The introduction of these new trading pairs is the second expansion of Bybit’s markets in as many weeks, following the arrival of BTCUSD0625 futures contract on 11 March. ADA/USDT, DOT/USDT and UNI/USDT join the existing linear perpetual trading pairs of BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, LINK/USDT, LTC/USDT, XTZ/USDT and BCH/USDT, as well as Bybit’s inverse perpetual and futures markets.
Traders will be able to select between 1-25x leverage on these new contracts. USDT-margined linear contracts allow traders to use the stablecoin Tether (USDT) as
Muzinich & Co has added Andrew Higginson, Edward Yu and Marcus VanBerkel have joined the firm’s business development team. All three will be based in New York.
Higginson joins from GAM Investments, where he was Managing Director and Co-Head of Institutional Business Development, North America. At Muzinich, Higginson will be focused on broadening and strengthening the Firm’s relationships with US institutions across its product platform.
“I’m pleased to be joining Muzinich at this exciting stage of their expansion,” says Higginson. “The Firm’s expertise in corporate credit across public and private markets makes it a well-placed choice for US institutional
Grayscale Investments, a digital currency asset manager, has launched five new digital currency investment trusts, bringing its total number of investment products to 14.
The new trusts are: Grayscale Basic Attention Token Trust; Grayscale Chainlink Trust; Grayscale Decentraland Trust; Grayscale Filecoin Trust; and Grayscale Livepeer Trust.
“Digital currencies have reached an inflection point. Investor demand has never been higher, and every day we’re seeing new entrants to what has surely become a bona fide asset class,” says Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein. “Grayscale has long been the leader in creating novel pathways for investors to access the opportunities that digital currencies
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has launched Period Mode settings on Lending Pro, allowing users to further customise and create their own lending strategies.
Period Mode is a new automation setting that allows Bitfinex users to customise the lending duration based on their specifications and market conditions. This enhances their ability to fine-tune lending strategies and optimise the management of crypto funding in Bitfinex’s peer-to-peer lending portal.
Customers can obtain access to Period Mode by opening the Automation Settings panel on the Lending Pro page. There are three modes available: Dynamic, Fixed, and Custom.
“Period Mode enables our users
By Don A Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – The hedge fund industry is dynamic, comprising of numerous strategies that attract varying degrees of interest over time.
Stockholm-based Brummer & Partners’ flagship multi-strategy fund has dipped into negative territory in recent weeks according to mid-month estimates for March, with long/short equity losses offsetting gains made by other strategies.
The Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS) vehicle’s SEK class fell 1.1 per cent during the first two weeks of March, reversing February’s 3.2 per cent advance to leave its year-to-date return at 1.2 per cent.
At the same time, the twice-levered BMS 2xL version of the fund, which climbed 6.4 per cent last month, has fallen 2.2 per cent so far this month, Brummer said on Wednesday. It remains up 2.2
