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Bridge Mutual, a decentralised, peer-to-peer discretionary coverage platform for digital assets, has launched BMI token on Polkastarter, the Polkadot DEX for cross-chain token pools and auctions.
The BMI token was available on Polkastarter via an Initial DEX Offering (IDO) from 30 January, 2021.
Last year alone, an estimated USD200 million in digital assets were lost in attacks on major services including KuCoin, Harvest Finance, and Origin Protocol. Bridge Mutual mitigates the risk of loss of funds resulting from unaudited smart contracts, exchange hacks, and other digital asset vulnerabilities with a marketplace for investors to provide and purchase coverage. Built on
Accessing bitcoin investments through a product which is listed on a recognised stock exchange and is liquid can ease many institutional investor concerns around allocation to this asset class.
SESAMm, a provider of analytics and artificial intelligence solutions for asset managers, banks, and hedge funds, has concluded a Series B funding round for over EUR7.5 million led by the Fintech VC fund of NewAlpha Asset Management and global investment firm The Carlyle Group.
LiquidityBook, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has reported record. revenues in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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Broadridge Financial Solutions, in partnership with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has begun development to support its role as an Approved SFT Submitter as it prepares for the launch of the new Securities Financing Transaction (SFT) Clearing service.
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The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and its clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) have successfully launched new After-Market contracts in Belgium and in the Netherlands.
These new offerings enable market participants to trade local hourly and 15 minute contracts even after delivery, until 12:30 pm CET for the Belgian market, and until 8:30 am on the day after delivery CET on the Dutch market. 21 members have registered for trading on the After-Market.
“After-Market contracts enable the adjustment of physical positions of our customers in the ex-post timeframe. By balancing their positions even after delivery, when all the final
Digital Vega, an FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, and Spark Systems, a Singapore based builder of low latency FX trading platforms, have formed strategic partnership to offer clients a technology platform for trading the full suite of FX products: Options, Spot, Forwards, Swaps and NDF’s.
The partnership between Digital Vega and Spark Systems is in response to demand from a broad group of buy- and sell-side users who are looking to access the market using complementary FX trading technology solutions. The combination of Digital Vega’s experience in developing FX Options technology with Spark Systems’
Alpha News Stream (ANS), a cloud-delivered, highly customisable API newsfeed of financial headlines, has launched a website portal where investing, fintech, corporate and other organisations can easily engage the service.
The ANS API curates English-language company and financial headlines from over 350 web news sources worldwide, via its public RSS feeds and the ANS search engine, adding useful metadata before delivering from the Amazon AWS cloud.
Companies covered include those in all sectors of the NASDAQ, NYSE, TSX exchanges and the FT 100. The feed also includes North America press releases from Business Wire, PR Newswire, CNW Group, Globe Newswire
FXSpotStream (FSS) is adding functionality to support FX Algos and Allocations over its API.
Key considerations for hedge fund succession planning – Part I
Key considerations for hedge fund succession planning – Part I