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TraditionDATA, the data arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition (Tradition), has partnered with Trad-X, Tradition’s joint venture with 13 of the world’s largest banks, and MTS, a leading electronic fixed income trading market in Europe, to create a unique new Asset Swap data service based on fully executable prices from these regulated trading platforms.
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Alter Domus, a leading provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, is to create 100 new jobs, substantially increasing headcount at its European Centre of Excellence in Cork.
IOWArocks, a global marketplace for data, tech, and services, has launched a new, single destination website under the IOWArocks umbrella brand showcasing: IOWAdata, the global data marketplace; IOWAtech for advanced technology solutions and IOWAserv for consultancy services to support the growing data community.
Additionally, MDX Technology (MDXT), which powers the IOWArocks global data marketplace, has been renamed IOWAtech, with its established Connect product suite continuing to support new and existing customers.
The new IOWArocks website is a single access, highly disruptive capability which now serves its entire user community. These include: Data consumers looking to streamline business operations and achieve
BMLL and WBR Insights have published new buyside research exploring how market participants use Level 3 data and analytics in their daily trading decisions to uncover predictive signals for algorithmic performance.
The Whitepaper “Buy-side usage of Level 3 data analytics for algorithmic performance” found that high quality data has become a commonly utilised commodity by most market participants who manage their AUM quantitatively; 74 per cent of respondents said they use Level 3 data in their research program to improve alpha generation and mitigate risk.
It is clear that data and analytics play an increasingly important role in the workflows
Blackstone – the world’s largest alternative investment manager – has seen its group-wide assets increase by 8 per cent, though its hedge fund capital fell slightly last year, despite positive performance amid “significantly less volatility than the broader markets”.
The group, which runs a range of hedge fund, private equity, credit, real estate, and alternative products, saw its total assets under management swell to USD618.6 billion in 2020 – an 8 per cent year-on-year increase from 2019’s total of USD571.1 billion, with Q4 2020 inflows numbering USD32.3 billion.
The group had deployed some USD293.6 billion of investable capital at quarter-end,
Bit.com, a secure derivatives exchange launched by Matrixport, has completed its integration with Copper ClearLoop, a platform provided by London-based digital asset custodian Copper.co, which facilitates instant, off-exchange cryptocurrency settlements.
Meketa Investment Group (Meketa), a global investment consulting and fiduciary management (OCIO) firm, has launched a new initiative to more thoroughly evaluate and rate asset managers’ efforts to ensure diversity and inclusion within their organisations.
Tether Operations Limited, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, has today announced that tether tokens (USDt) have surpassed USD25 billion.
As the most stable, liquid and innovative stablecoin, USDt plays a pivotal role within the digital token ecosystem, with many digital token spot exchanges now denominating pairs in USDt rather than bitcoin (BTC). USDt is also increasingly being used in remittances and innovative projects in the digital token ecosystem, including those in the nascent space of decentralised finance (DeFi).
“Those working at the coal face of the digital token space, be they traders or developers,
Marathon Asset Management (Marathon), a global credit investment manager, has held the final close for its Marathon Secured Private Strategies Fund, which was oversubscribed with approximately USD900 million in commitments.
The fund will invest in a diversified portfolio of asset-based loans across the healthcare, real estate, equipment and transportation, and corporate sectors backed by secure, contractual cash-flows.
“Our asset-based lending platform has a differentiated approach that provides specialised capital solutions, enabling Marathon to create alpha through strong collateral and robust cash flow,” says Bruce Richards, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Marathon. “Our ability to capture complexity premium while protecting
Gracie Asset Management (Gracie), a long/short credit manager founded in 2004, has promoted Kyle Fitzgerald to the role of Portfolio Manager for the firm’s credit funds, effective 15 January, 2020.
Fitzgerald will help oversee the fund’s investment activities with emphasis on the energy, basic material, and industrial sectors and will report to Chief Investment Officer James Palmisciano. He will also join the firm’s Investment Committee.
Fitzgerald joined Gracie in 2008 as an analyst and holds a master’s degree in accounting with honours from the McCombs Business School at the University of Texas. He previously served as an analyst on the
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