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Quantumrock, the Munich-based AI investment technology firm, has announced its fifth month of strong performance for its flagship strategy Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP).Up 37.02 per cent for the year, and by 0.63 per cent for the month, VSOP has continued to prove that it can deliver encouraging results when markets are relatively calm, as well as during times of volatility. This month, the balanced component moved with the market and contributed +2.42 per cent.
VSOP entails a systematic multi-strategy approach in the S&P 500 index volatility market with a real-money track record dating back to July 2016. The
Elliptic, a specialist in crypto asset risk management solutions, has integrated its blockchain analysis solutions for transaction and wallet risk screening with Fireblocks’ institutional platform for storing, transferring, and issuing digital assets, automating anti-money laundering (AML) compliance for shared institutional customers.Now that Elliptic’s real-time risk scoring and analytics are exposed directly in the Fireblocks platform, their joint customers have the ability to quickly identify and take action on potentially risky transactions in a scalable way, saving time and cost in their compliance operations.
“The cryptoasset market is developing and gaining the attention of institutional and retail investors as an efficient
Alternative investment platform CAIS, which provides financial advisers with access to a wide range of alternative investment strategies including, hedge funds, has reported rapid adoption of its CAIS IQ learning system.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
Digital B2B ecommerce marketplace provider Distichain is partnering with SECDEX Digital Custodian (SECDEX), Africa and the Middle East’s first regulated fully operational digital custodian. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
By James McDonald (pictured), CEO/CIO of Hercules Investments – America is in bad shape. While the rest of the world seems to be moving past the Coronavirus, the US is still experiencing record deaths nationwide. Americans continue to struggle just to get bills paid, while Washington debates semantics surrounding mail-in voting.
Hedge funds have collected almost EUR200 million from successful bets against the embattled travel and leisure sector, with short positions in Lufthansa, TUI and IAG driving the bulk of the gains recently.
New analysis by Ortex, the London-based equity analytics firm, shows short sellers made EUR196 million in profits from component companies of the STOXX Europe 600 Travel & Leisure Index in July – a sharp rise from the EUR41 million worth of gains in June.
Bets against major airlines and package holiday groups fuelled returns as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has put European consumers’ summer vacation plans on ice.
Pico, a provider of technology services for the financial markets community, has launched a new managed colocation facility at Chunghwa Telecom’s CHT Taipei IDC in Banqiao, New Taipei City. Pico is providing its own local Intellihands service in CHT Taipei IDC as well as for the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) data centre. Connectivity to TWSE, Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX), and the Taipei Exchange (TPEx) will be offered in the future to clients hosting in CHT Taipei IDC.
In March 2020, 24-hour continuous trading on Taiwan’s stock market came into effect, replacing the call auction trading method. Pico responded by introducing
Cryptocurrency trading specialist Huobi has reported trading volume of USD877.8 billion in the first six months of 2020.Interestingly, Q1, which was a good quarter for the cryptocurrency space, has been matched by Q2 on Huobi despite the second quarter being impacted by a major bitcoin market collapse.
For Q1, unilateral trading volume totalled USDF444.2 billion while Q2 was USD433.7 billion. Even though Q2 was characterised by a market drop and thensideways trading, the transaction volume saw no significant decline.
Huobi only recently launched its own perpetual swap product, but it has been an instant success, keeping up with, and sometimes
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for July 2020 measured 1.82 per cent.Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.55 per cent in August.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index for August 2020 rose 0.55 per cent, indicating positive net flows. On a comparative basis, the 0.55 per cent gain was higher than the 0.45 per cent increase reported for the same period a year ago and was also the largest net inflow for any month of August since 2016,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C
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