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Eventus Systems, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has reported ‘unprecedented growth’ on multiple fronts in 2020, marking its strongest year to date in revenue and new client onboardings. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager
Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) has secured a NOK60 million investment arranged by sole manager and book runner Pareto Securities – a leading investment bank in the Nordics. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Neo & Partners Global, a financial technology SME serving the capital markets sector community of commodity trading advisors, family offices, fund management companies and proprietary trading firms, has been awarded the FinTech Certification by Singapore FinTech Association as a FinTech Certified Platforms provider for its award-winning Trading-Atrium.
Ed Butchart, former CIO at Sloane Robinson, has joined Kepler Partners alongside a team of three research analysts.Together the team will continue to be responsible for managing the KLS Emerging Markets Fund, which launched on the Kepler Liquid Strategies Platform in July 2017 and has generated 13.85 per cent annualised returns since inception, including a return of 28.75 per cent in 2020.
The team join Kepler at an exciting time for the business and will be responsible for managing the KLS Emerging Markets Fund that was originally launched in partnership with Sloane Robinson in 2017. The fund invests in global
New York-based Marathon Asset Management is zeroing in on a broad range of special situations opportunities arising from the coronavirus pandemic fallout with the launch of a new distressed strategy, the Marathon Distressed Credit Fund.
The fund, which has closed with around USD2.5 billion worth of commitments, aims to provide capital solutions for companies in stressed and distressed situations to grow or reposition themselves. Marathon has some USD20 billion of assets under management.
The assortment of opportunities, which stem from the varying paces of recovery across different industries and sectors, include restructurings, debtor in possession financings, and exit financings.
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iConnections, an industry-leading community that connects investment managers and allocators through a personalised, secure and information-rich platform, has joined the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) as a Sponsoring Partner.The strategic partnership will connect iConnections’ alternative investment management community of leading allocators and fund managers with AIMA’s members, who collectively manage more than USD2 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets, thus providing members of both organisations with the opportunity to access an invaluable network for capital introductions, industry resources and events.
Announcing this partnership Jack Inglis, CEO at AIMA, says: “Our industry has shown great resilience in the
Gold-i has integrated with CryptoCortex – an advanced digital asset trading platform from digital platform engineering and services specialist EPAM Systems. This provides financial institutions with increased access to multiple market makers and fully cleared cryptocurrency products available via Gold-i’s CryptoSwitch 2.0, part of its Matrix multi-asset liquidity management platform.
The integration was completed following a request from a Gold-i client wanting to use the CryptoCortex platform to access liquidity from Hehmeyer and Shift Markets via Gold-i’s CryptoSwitch 2.0.
Tom Higgins, CEO, Gold-i, says: “As digital asset trading continues to gain momentum amongst brokers, Prime of Primes and hedge
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has launched snapshots of historical order book data on Bitfinex Terminal, a real-time market data feed.Bitfinex customers can now obtain access to historical snapshots of exchange order book data on a pay-as-you-go basis, enabling the backtesting of trading ideas to power algorithmic strategies. The data provided, which consists of snapshots taken every 5 seconds, is compressed, delivering a small storage footprint and fast replication times.
Users can purchase snapshots of data with bitcoin via the Lightning Network, Tether tokens (USDt) or UNUS SED LEO, Bitfinex’s native token. After a user buys an amount
The European Power Spot markets operated by EPEX SPOT reported a new high of 55.8 TWh in ecember 2020, beating the previous volume record set in March 2019 (54.8 TWh). The increase was driven by both the Day-Ahead (45.7 TWh) and Intraday (10.1 TWh) markets, which respectively rose by 2 per cent and 11 per cent compared to December 2019.
During the month, the Austrian, Belgian and Swiss Day-Ahead markets registered strong growth rates with +11 per cent, +17 per cent and +12 per cent respectively, while the French Intraday market registered a new monthly record with 1.1 TWh traded in
EQUOS, the cryptocurrency exchange of digital assets financial services company Diginex Limited, has launched Bitcoin (BTC) Perpetual Futures Contracts.The successful launch of the BTC Perpetual is a major milestone in the roadmap of derivative products that are being introduced by EQUOS. Derivatives linked to traditional financial assets like equities, commodities or foreign exchange often eclipse the value traded in the underlying spot markets by hundreds of times.
Derivative products are nascent in the digital asset industry and are presently not offered by some of the major digital asset exchanges. From near nonexistence only a few years ago, the size
