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Insurance-linked securities manager Securis Investment Partners has implemented Indus Valley Partners’ pricing automation solution, IVP Price Master.IVP Price Master is designed to help firms take the complexity out of their pricing process through its key features such as automation, flexible reporting, exception management and extensive connectivity.
“In our ongoing effort to automate key operational processes, Price Master will contribute to improved efficiency within our valuation and fund accounting function. It consolidates the process of collecting market prices from multiple sources, a process that can be quite work-intensive and onerous,” says James Dawson, Operations Manager for Securis.
“The continued adoption
GH Financials (GHF) has selected Eventus Systems to meet its trade surveillance needs worldwide. The London-based exchange-traded derivatives clearing firm will deploy the cloud-based version of the Eventus Validus platform beginning in early 2021.The decision comes following an extensive, nearly year-long review of solutions on the market. Validus will replace two existing outsourced solutions currently employed by GHF. The clearing firm will use Validus not only for trade surveillance of all of its futures and options activity on markets globally, but also for compliance with “RTS 6” real-time algorithmic monitoring requirements under the European Union’s MiFID II regulatory framework. GHF
Launched earlier this year, New York-based Ironhold Capital’s equity-focused hedge fund is seeking to capitalise on opportunities in value-oriented stocks across the US and India.
DeFi project KingSwap has completed its migration from Uniswap to its own platform’s liquidity and farming pools. Earlier this month, KingSwap achieved USD4 million in transaction volume in its first three days on Uniswap. Now, KingSwap’s DEX features are available directly through its website https://www.kingswap.exchange. The first regulated DeFi project out of Singapore, KingSwap is a high-yield liquidity platform that offers extensive staking rewards, digital collectibles, and fiat conversions. An evolution of Uniswap, KingSwap provides user-friendly features that provide real-time benefits in terms of price curves and contributor rewards.
“We’re pleased with the quick progress our team has made in migrating
New analysis from ETF provider GraniteShares, which offers a range of 3x short and 3x leveraged ETPs on popular UK and US stocks, reveals that as of 13 November 2020, Cineworld Group, the world’s second-largest cinema chain, was the most shorted UK listed company. Some 9.51 per cent of its stock was held short by 10 investment firms, with Adelphi Capital having the largest short position with 2.07 per cent of the company’s shares.
The next most shorted UK listed companies were Premier Oil PLC, Tullow Oil PLC, and Petrofac LTD, where the respective short positions were 9.14 per cent,
TORA, a provider of industry-leading trading technology, has integrated its order & execution management system (OEMS) with leading provider of financial market services, TP ICAP and their Fusion RFQ engine. The new integration enables TORA’s Equity & ETF clients to access greater liquidity through Fusion RFQ’s global pool of over 14,500 instruments and 30-plus Liquidity providers.
The new partnership aims to bring more efficiency to Equity and ETF execution workflows. Fusion RFQ feeds requests from clients (Requesters) to Liquidity Providers (LP) who in turn provide two‐way prices in the requested size or decline. The engine returns the best bid and
BondIT, an independent portfolio construction technology provider for fixed income, and Scorable, a provider of AI-driven credit analysis, are to merge and combine their technologies in a bid to transform fixed-income investing.
21Shares, the Swiss crypto ETP issuer accredited with listing the first crypto basket HODL, has now achieved USD150 million in assets under management (AUM), outperforming the vast majority of managed crypto funds.
Fireblocks has raised USD30 million in Series B funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to USD46 million. This round was led by Paradigm with participation from existing investors, Cyberstarts, Tenaya Capital, Swisscom, Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and Cedar Hill Capital. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Cloud-based technology company Eleven has announced the beta release of new technology that transforms how investments in private equity funds and hedge funds are made.Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
