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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…
CME Group has begun daily publication of a suite of new implied volatility benchmark indexes based on its proprietary CME Group Volatility Index (CVOL) methodology. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Alphidence Capital’s Alphidence Systematic Macro Fund is live as of the 17 of November 2020.The company founded by Igor Yelnik continues to research and innovate the Systematic Macro strategy that he has pioneered throughout his investment career.
The Alphidence Capital investment team is led by Igor who is supported by senior quantitative researchers and an experienced software development team. The business team is led by Chief Operating Officer Graham Baughan.
The Alphidence Systematic Macro Fund based in the Cayman Islands has appointed independent veteran fund directors Russell Burt (who also sits as a non-executive director on the AIMA
Ramsey Quantitative Systems (RQSI), a quantitative asset management firm, has introduced a novel framework for evaluating the attractiveness of the US stock market based on an extension of the Dividend Discount Model, also known as the Gordon Growth Model. The methodology of the framework is illustrated in the white paper, “Will the Stock Market Crash? A Modified Approach to the Dividend Discount Model,” and can be seen in action through Bear Tracker, a new interactive stock market prediction tool.
“While the reads and the allocations shown from the Bear Tracker tool might be too tactical and variable for most investors,
