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Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has added IOTA as collateral on Bitfinex Borrow after it was successful in a recent social media poll.
An overwhelming majority of Bitfinex’s growing community opted for IOTA, with the token gathering 87.6 per cent of the votes in a social media poll.
“Our customers have spoken,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex. “IOTA’s success in our recent social poll is a testament to its enduring popularity and track record for innovation in the field of distributed ledger technologies.”
Bitfinex customers can now obtain loans of up to 70 per cent of the value
Managed futures hedge funds and short-term trading strategies have rebounded strongly in recent weeks, with each of Société Générale’s three main CTA and trend-following indices finishing February in positive territory.
With shares in heavily-shorted real estate services firm Rocket surging more than 70 per cent this week, a new study by London-based AI start-up causaLens explores the ways in which so-called ‘meme’ stocks, popular with online amateur traders, could potentially face short squeezes.
Retail platforms, led by Amazon, have revolutionized how we behave as consumers and placed convenience and quality of customer service at the centre of the model. How can asset management firms take lessons from this and could there be a way forward for them to adopt more of a platform-centric way to providing fund services? And in doing so, harness the power of the platform to re-think fund distribution and bring a sense of order to the highly fragmented, chaotic nature of global asset management?
Global law firm Ropes & Gray has bolstered its international funds offering with the appointment of Emily Brown as a partner in its Asset Management Group, based in London.
Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Gemini, a crypto exchange and custodian, has launched a new global offering — Gemini Fund Solutions — to provide fund managers with custody, clearing, trade execution, and other capital markets services tailored to ETFs, closed-end funds, and other fund vehicles.
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Tuesday, 9 February marked the successful launch of the EPEX SPOT Polish Day-Ahead auction which extends the Group’s power spot offering in Central Europe. The market started off well with 33.6 GWh traded until the end of the month.
In the European Power Derivatives markets, French Futures grew by 16 per cent to 36.2 TWh, while the Austrian, Swiss and Dutch Power Futures all recorded double-digit growth rates. Nordic Power Futures more than quadrupled and reached a new monthly record at 2,192 GWh (previous record: 1,312 GWh in November 2020). Polish Power Futures also achieved their highest volume so far
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has expanded the range of market data services available to algorithmic traders with the launch of snapshots of historical funding book data on Bitfinex Terminal.
The launch of historical funding book data adds to the range of advanced tools available to Bitfinex customers, enabling the analysis of trading data and the backtesting of ideas to power algorithmic trading strategies.
Historical funding book data, which consists of snapshots taken every 5 seconds, is the second set of premium data available on a pay-as-you-go basis on Bitfinex Terminal, following the earlier launch of historical exchange order
EQUOS, Diginex’s institutional-grade cryptocurrency exchange, has launched ether (ETH) Perpetual Futures (ETH/USDC[F]), to provide investors with the opportunity to trade and hedge in all market conditions.
This launch follows the EQUOS’ Bitcoin Perpetual Futures (BTC/USDC [F]), which was introduced to EQUOS customers in early January. It is part of the continuing roadmap for EQUOS in its mission to create the industry-leading derivatives trading venue, for both institutional and individual investors.
The EQUOS ETH Perpetual Future is designed to allow professional traders and institutional investors to take a directional position on ETH using USDC as collateral, in an environment that is
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