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Asia has the world’s largest pools of liquidity and is the epicentre of demand for digital assets, with Hong Kong at its heart. With its robust regulatory regime for digital assets, Hong Kong is also a key player in meeting investor appetite for this new asset class.
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission’s (SFC) digital asset regulatory regime specifically focuses on investor protections and allows the institutional segment to safely and securely enter the space and trade innovative products like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Security Tokens (STOs). OSL Digital Securities Limited is the first and only firm to receive a
The world of cryptocurrencies has experienced a sea change in the past year. Although the nature of bitcoin itself is immutable, which is actually part of its attraction as an investment, the sentiment towards these assets has been shifting quite dramatically.
“The change in tone we observed over the course of 2020 as well as the difference in reception is unlike anything I’ve seen before. Many investors who were previously either dismissive or negative, have either completely changed their tune or at the very least, they want to hear more about how it works,” outlines Christopher Bendiksen (pictured), head of
Adoption and usage of digital assets is growing, however the market is still not fully saturated. This means some managers may look to trade on multiple exchanges to seize on opportunities resulting from slight price discrepancies between exchanges. Accessing all exchanges through a single platform can make these managers more operationally efficient while also safeguarding the assets to ensure high levels of security.
Alex Maslin (pictured), Business Development Director, Custody and Prime Brokerage for Digital Assets at Copper outlines: “Managers have long complained about the difficulty of having to manage a variety of exchanges at the same time. Operating multiple exchange accounts
Ahead of the launch of their new quantitative trading strategy, GFM caught up with Manuel Anguita, CFA, Co-Founder of Silver 8 Capital, to get his views on recent developments…
What are the most significant changes you have observed in the market? How do these benefit investors and ultimately the industry as a whole?
We started researching the space in 2014 and began trading in 2015. Back then, the total market cap of cryptoassets was below USD10 billion. At that time, there was sufficient information on the technology, but barely any professional investment analysis. We had to start from scratch, from developing a valuation
By A Paris – Some say you should never resist the unfamiliar, but until recently, the institutional investor market has staunchly resisted considering cryptocurrencies and digital assets to be an asset class of their own. But as large institutions like insurer Mass Mutual investing in Bitcoin and asset management behemoth, BlackRock filed for two of its funds to invest in the crypto asset, the outlook for digital investments to be classed as an asset class in and of themselves is looking more positive.
A research paper by academic Asheer Jaywant Ram concludes: “Bitcoin represents a distinct alternative investment and asset class. There
causaLens, a deep-tech company which recently launched the world’s first Causal AI platform, is set to build the world’s largest Causal AI research lab.
Peregrine Capital (Pty) Ltd (Peregrine Capital) is to start marketing its Peregrine Capital Global Equity Fund, which launched on 18 November 2020.
The fund, which sits on the Prescient Global Funds ICAV platform and is authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland, will initially be distributed to investors in South Africa, and subsequently to investors in other key European markets.
Peregrine Capital was founded in 1998 and is the longest running hedge fund manager in South Africa. Since inception, Peregrine Capital’s mission has been to create wealth for its clients by delivering superior risk-adjusted long-term returns through the rigorous
Bison Trails, a blockchain infrastructure platform-as-a-service company, has launched Polkadot Indexer, a new API that will enable developers, analytics companies and institutions to efficiently access and query data from the Polkadot and Kusama blockchains.
With the Polkadot community growing globally, the new Polkadot Indexer API will offer Bison Trails customers a robust and efficient way to access alternate views of blockchain data, track relevant trends, and uncover insights to optimise participation and application performance with fewer requests to their nodes.
”Polkadot’s unique infrastructure makes it a great candidate for developers to build dApps and other robust applications. With growing
Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a leader in technology solutions for the equity, equity options, futures and digital asset trading, has appointed Erik Schmidt as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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Tether tokens (USDt) has crossed the USD35 billion mark, amid growing institutional and corporate demand.
USDt is cementing its role within the digital token ecosystem with many digital token spot exchanges now denominating pairs in USDt rather than bitcoin (BTC). Meanwhile, USDt is increasingly being used in remittances and innovative projects in the digital token ecosystem, including those in the nascent space of decentralised finance (DeFi).
“The market has once again spoken: people like using Tether,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Tether. “Our growth reflects the utility of Tether in the overall digital token ecosystem, with the market capitalisation of
