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Itiviti, a technology and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, is to move its entire electronic trading platform to the cloud. The firm has opted for a hybrid private-public cloud strategy to reinforce the modularity and flexibility of its platform.
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Fireblocks’ institutional customers, which include exchanges, lending desks, banks, OTC desks, liquidity providers and hedge funds, have now transferred more than USD150 billion in digital assets using the platform. To meet the growing adoption of digital assets and real-time payments, Fireblocks will be expanding its operations in Europe beyond London, adding two new offices in France and Germany.
The European Union has become the latest jurisdiction to take steps to accelerate the region’s cryptocurrency adoption. In September, the EU’s executive branch introduced proposed rules to provide legal guidance and clarity for corporates and investors to adopt cryptocurrencies. This year alone there
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has been strategically enhancing its European backbone during 2020 and can now offer market data from all the major European equities exchanges to TNS’ points-of-presence (PoPs) across Europe.This network upgrade is part of TNS’ commitment to offer premium infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and connectivity solutions across Europe. In addition, TNS has deployed its ultra-low latency TNSXpress Layer 1 architecture to connect its PoPs.
“This backbone expansion coincides with TNS rounding out our access to European equities with the addition of market data for CBOE Europe, Euronext, LSE, Borsa Italiana and SIX Swiss,” says Jeff Mezger, TNS’ Director of
Capstone Investment Advisors, the global volatility and derivatives-focused hedge fund, believes the lack of volatility both in the US election polls and president Donald Trump’s personal approval ratings suggests Democrat challenger Joe Biden is on course to win the 3 November election.
The firm, which manages USD7.9 billion in assets across a broad range of volatility-focused, derivatives-based strategies, says Trump’s approval rating has been the least volatile of the last 14 US presidents, while polling data suggests 2020’s race is much less volatile than the 2016 battle.
Jason Goldberg, senior portfolio manager at Capstone, says a lack of movement in
Oyster BM Alternativos – an alternative UCITS fund of funds launched a year ago by SYZ Capital with Spain’s Banca March, and led by hedge fund industry veteran Cédric Vuignier – has weathered 2020’s turbulence to grow its assets to EUR100 million (USD118.1 million), making gains in Japanese and convertible arbitrage-focused positions.
The fund has generated a 3.9 per cent return since its October 2019 launch, and is up 2.5 per cent year-to-date, ahead of its peer group, with roughly half of its EUR100 million inflows received this year.
Oyster BM Alternativos invests in selected equity hedge, event driven, macro and relative
By Joshua D Kestler, Global Head of HedgeMark, BNY Mellon – In the 12 years since the 2008 financial crisis, many large institutional investors have adopted Dedicated Managed Account (DMA) structures in order to address the challenges in commingled hedge funds that were exposed during the crisis. These investors were well-prepared to more effectively manage their portfolios through the market volatility which has resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic while eliminating many of the structural risks that can be exacerbated during a crisis scenario.
Accelerate Financial Technologies’ (Accelerate) suite of institutional-calibre alternative ETFs, inclduing the Accelerate Absolute Return Hedge Fund (HDGE) and Accelerate Arbitrage Fund (ARB), have been added to the RBC Dominion Securities A+ platform.
A&A Investment Adviser’s Luxembourg’s entity has agreed to terms with an Asset Management Firm to acquire an Irish ICAV, which it says will be one of the most innovative launch platforms for quantitative sub-funds in UCIT’s format in the European market.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
FEG Investment Advisors (FEG), an independent investment consulting and OCIO firm, has selected Diligend, a provider of investment management software, to automate and digitalise the collection of manager data and documents in its operational due diligence (ODD) of investment managers across public and private markets and hedge funds.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Huobi Futures has announced its latest offering that looks to take advantage of the ever-growing and popularising stablecoin market, USDT-Margined Swaps. Ten popular currencies including BTC, ETH, BCH, BSV, LINK, DOT, UNI, FIL, YFI, and BNB are listed in the first batch. Based on Huobi’s announcement, currently only Web and API are available; trading on APP will be supported around a week after the initial launch.
The total market capitalisation of stablecoins has grown from USD2.6 billion at the start of 2019 to USD20 billion by late September of 2020. Tether (USDT), at USD16 billion, leads the way. The data indicates
