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Bixin Ventures has launched a USD100 million proprietary capital fund to support the global blockchain ecosystem and infrastructure necessary for the future of open finance through a permissionless and decentralised network.Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
The Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association (Global DCA) has launched with the aim of guiding the evolution of this new technology within a regulatory framework designed to build public trust, foster market integrity and maximise economic opportunity for all participants. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Finastra, one of the world’s largest fintechs, and CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, have formed a global partnership to deliver an integrated collateral and margin management solution to market participants of all sizes through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Collateral Management as a Service, powered by CloudMargin and available through Finastra’s FusionFabric.cloud platform, connects to Finastra’s core treasury and capital markets solutions, facilitating end-to-end straight-through processing of derivatives transactions, and all associated collateral management workflows, from trade booking through to settlement. The solution will automate and optimise the collateral management
Unbiased has launched its Data Marketplace on Telos, one of the most active blockchain platforms in the world. Unbiased works to solve current challenges faced by AI and Machine Learning, including transparency, bias, and quality of training data. The Unbiased Data Marketplace provides privacy-centric and decentralised development tools to companies working with AI and machine learning applications, including data collection, annotation, labelling and analytics; all with blockchain certificates. The project was introduced in beta in March 2020, underwent significant upgrades, and is now live for commercial use.
Today, most dataset generation tools for training supervised machine learning and AI algorithms are
pTokens, a cross-chain system enabling assets to move frictionlessly from one blockchain network to another, is to list its pBTC, pETH, and pLTC, tokens on non-custodial digital asset exchange and iFinex brand eosfinex, bringing the top crypto assets to the EOS blockchain through the Bitfinex on-chain ecosystem.As decentralised finance (DeFi) continues to expand its reach, dApps and cross-chain tokenisation are still restricted by blockchain walls. pTokens will allow major crypto assets to be used across different blockchain-powered applications and exchanges. As a transparent and security-oriented solution connecting multiple blockchain protocols, pTokens allow for asset transfers by means of the pTokens
Hedge fund short-sellers have taken a five-month drubbing on bets against the Dow Jones, as the sustained summer rally torpedoed their negative wagers to the tune of USD16 billion – but September’s sell-off has stemmed losses, leading to hopes of an upturn in fortunes.
The robust performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the aftermath of March’s Covid crash brought month-on-month hits to short positions, new analysis from London-based equity research firm Ortex Analytics shows.
The index – which tracks the stock market performance of the 30 largest listed US companies – gathered pace from April onwards, which left
The aim of London-based systematic managed futures hedge fund manager DG Partners is simple, says founder and chief investment officer David Gorton: “To be the best trend-follower we can be in the business.”
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has incorporated Refinitiv market data on its platform.
Tradeweb Markets, an operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has become the first trading venue to facilitate the electronic execution of SONIA swaps against Gilt futures for institutional investors. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Strait Fund Services (STRAIT), a fund solutions company providing a full range of services for hedge funds, private equity funds, family offices, and other asset management firms, has incorporated Wrike’s Professional Services cloud-based project management and collaboration enterprise solution into its software suite.STRAIT will expand its robust institutional technology platform with Wrike’s automated product for collaborative project and workflow management. The Wrike Professional Services application will complement STRAIT’s core systems, creating a comprehensive, fully integrated workflow solution.
“The new normal caused by the pandemic has made technology an even more critical component of a fund administrator’s infrastructure,” saus Stacey
