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Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, and Solana, the world’s first web-scale blockchain, have announced a new initiative that will integrate tether (USDt) into the Solana network.According to Solana, it will be possible to exchange USDt at speeds greater than 50,000 transactions per second—often for less than USD0.00001 per transaction—marking a major advance in the quest for high-speed decentralised finance (DeFi) applications.
“Tether is the life blood of DeFi, and an important pillar of the crypto community at large. In order for developers to leverage the real potential of Solana, an integration with USDt
Some quantitative trend-following hedge funds may be caught in a pincer movement between continued lukewarm performance on one side and ongoing investor aversion as a result of allocators being unable to perform deeper on-site due diligence on the other.
Computer-driven CTAs have posted somewhat patchy performances in recent months after starting the year strongly.
Trend followers were able to gather strong momentum following March’s historic market crash by locking onto a series of sharp moves in commodities and currencies. More recently, though, many hedge funds running these strategies have stumbled in the face of a strong market surge over the
Hedge fund managers running a range of investment strategies rose again last month, with August’s gains capping the strongest five-month run for the industry in more than 20 years.
The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index – an investable barometer of the broader hedge fund industry published by Hedge Fund Research – was up 2.67 per cent last month.
In the five months since April, following Q1’s coronavirus meltdown, the index has surged 15.4 per cent – the strongest five-month total return for hedge funds since February 2000. That puts its index value to an all-time high of 15,093.
Year-to-date, the
Vela, an independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has added Fenics US Treasuries (Fenics UST), owned and operated by BGC Financial, to its fully-hosted and managed Direct Market Access (DMA) Platform. With Fenics, Vela expands its Fixed Income offering providing global clients with access to cash and derivatives trading venues via a single platform.
Vela’s award-winning multi-asset DMA Platform is cross-connected to Fenics’ co-location facility in New Jersey, delivering a short path to the venue and ensuring superior transactional and communication performance. Leveraging Vela’s DMA Platform, low-touch trading desks at buy- and sell-side firms
London-based CFD provider Infinox has become the first UK company to make forex futures trading possible in South America.The global trading platform has been selected by the Brasil Bolsa Balcão stock exchange – known as the B3 – to be the sole market maker for FX futures trading contracts.
The appointment means that Brazilian investors in the B3 – the world’s third largest derivatives exchange by volume in 2019 – can now trade the world’s most liquid FX and interest rate products in their home market, and without needing to send funds out of the country.
The simplicity and liquidity
FXCM Group, an international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, cryptocurrencies and related services, has launched a new service that provides free SMS trading alerts to help users spot potential trading opportunities. This new service covers shares, forex, gold, and many other tradable instruments at FXCM. Users can select the instruments that they wish to receive signals for, which will be delivered daily to their mobile.
Each SMS alert text message includes a link to a dedicated page where the user can see entry and exit levels along with duration so to find better potential trading opportunities. Texts
Integral, an FX technology provider, has launched a new version of its trading platform, FX Inside 7.0.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Fireblocks, a platform for securing digital assets, has expanded support for the crypto derivatives market through a new integration with X-Margin. Together, X-Margin and Fireblocks allow the trading of derivatives on any asset, using any form of collateral while receiving cross-margin benefits across counterparties. As a distributed clearing network, X-Margin eliminates counterparty risk, while Fireblocks secures collateral and automates settlement with it’s leading digital asset security infrastructure.
“The derivatives market has always been attractive for larger investors, but one of the biggest hurdles they needed to overcome has to do with capital efficiency, custody and security,” says Darshan Vaidya, CEO of
AlgoTrader has partnered with Blockfills to provide financial institutions with a secure gateway to global crypto and digital asset liquidity.Blockfills is the first electronic communication network model ECN for crypto and digital assets and is made available within AlgoTrader´s recently launched WIRESWARM platform, a crypto and digital asset order management, execution management and multi-venue connectivlty platform for banks.
Despite the intervention of Covid-19 on global financial markets, the crypto and digital asset markets have shown themselves to be a legitimate asset class with increased market capitalisation, trading volumes and prices. Due to this current challenging market environment, investors have been
William Callanan – a veteran of the investment management industry and a global macro hedge fund specialist, whose resume includes stints at Soros Fund Management and Fortress Investment Group – is capitalising on evolving outsourcing trends with Syzygy Investment Advisory, a novel advisory unit that provides an outsourced chief strategy officer role to an assortment of institutional investors, hedge funds and family office clients.
Launched in April last year, London-based Syzygy’s core focus is on generating alpha across a range of global macroeconomic themes and ideas, investing in currencies, interest rates, commodities and public-traded equities on a long/short and long/only basis.
“We
