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iConnections, a platform and community that connects investment managers and allocators for long-term investment relationships through a personalised, secure, and information-rich platform, is to host a virtual meeting of managers and allocators from 21-29 January, 2021.
The conference is organised by The iConnections Investment Institute and will feature distinguished speakers from the investment industry, scientific community, leading economists, technology leaders, and healthcare innovators as well as offer allocator led capital introduction meeting.
The event will kick off on 21 January, with a fireside chat featuring iConnections CEO, Ron Biscardi, interviewing SkyBridge Capital founder and ex-Director of Communications for the White
VERMEG, a banking and insurance software solutions provider, has launched Colline.Cloud, an end-to-end collateral management service, aimed at smaller buy and sell-side firms.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
London-based regulatory compliance firm eflow is working with Refinitiv to further improve the existing market data store currently used in eflow’s trade surveillance platform TZ. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Bitfinex Derivatives has launched perpetual contracts for IOTA (IOTAF0:USTF0), Chainlink (LINKF0:USTF0) and Uniswap (UNIF0:USTF0). IOTA (IOTAF0:USTF0), Chainlink (LINKF0:USTF0) and Uniswap (UNIF0:USTF0) went live on 18 November. Each contract will offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in tether (USDt) tokens.
“We’re delighted to announce the addition of IOTA, Chainlink and Uniswap to the growing portfolio of perpetual swaps available to trade on the exchange,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “We anticipate great interest in these products, particularly among funds and professional investors for hedging purposes and to manage risk.”
Bitfinex Derivatives platform and products are only
Global litigation funder, Therium Capital Management, announced today that Ben Smyth has joined the firm’s investment team as an Investment Officer.Smyth joins Therium following a decade at UBS Investment Bank, where he was most recently Head of Benelux and Nordics within the bank’s Financial Institutions Debt Capital Markets (DCM) advisory group. In this role, Smyth advised some of the largest Banks and Insurance companies in Northern Europe, on optimisation of their liability profile.
Prior to UBS, Smyth was an Associate Director at ABN AMRO Bank NV, where he was responsible for DCM across Benelux, UK and Ireland. His career
Telos, one of the most active blockchain platforms in the world, has partnered with pNetwork to bring liquidity to its DeFi ecosystem. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
eVestment, a specialist in institutional investment data and analytics, has become the first institutional investment platform to offer access to the Alpha Nasdaq OCIO Indices. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Luminex Trading & Analytics, a buy side-owned trading venue delivering efficient, low-cost block executions, has launched a ‘dramatic’ speed upgrade to the matching engine behind its unique buy side-only dark pool.The enhancements represent a significant performance upgrade to the platform and were developed in consultation with clients to achieve unprecedented execution when trading large numbers of shares. The Luminex ATS now operates at a rate exponentially faster than before the upgrade. The more efficient technology will lead to cost savings that will help Luminex keep its commissions among the lowest in the industry.
To design and implement the speed upgrade,
ICON, one of the world’s largest decentralised networks, has signed a long-term deal with Band Protocol to support data-driven DApp development on its blockchain. Band Protocol is a data oracle platform that aggregates and connects real-world data and APIs to smart contracts, providing the tools for blockchain developers to connect to any external data source. The company is backed by top investors including Sequoia Capital and Binance.
Band Protocol recently completed a successful integration with ICON to provide secure, decentralised oracles for DApps. Developers can use these oracles to integrate high-quality, off-chain data to their applications, such as financial data for
Thirty two IM Phase 5 firms have successfully joined AcadiaSoft and TriOptima’s IM Phase 5 soft launch initiative and more than 25 additional firms are scheduled to join before the end of 2020. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
