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On the heels of high-profile client acquisitions and rapid organic asset growth within the US market over the last 18 months reaching approximately USD65 billion in client assets, iCapital has expanded its reach to serve a growing international client base with heightened interest in private market investments. Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
Bitfinex Derivatives,a derivatives platform accessible through digital token trading platform Bitfinex, has launched a perpetual contract for Silver.The contractm which went live on 26 October, will offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in Tether (USDt) tokens.
“As the second precious metal offering, we anticipate a ready uptake for this silver perpetual contract,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “This offering is available to sophisticated traders for the purposes of hedging and managing risk.”
Bitfinex Derivatives platform and products are only available in eligible jurisdictions, and are exclusive to verified users.
Somerset Capital Management (Somerset Capital), a global emerging markets equities specialist based in London and Singapore, has appointed Min Chen as a Portfolio Manager on the firm’s China team.
A victory for Joe Biden in next month’s US presidential election may “counter-intuitively” help boost global oil markets, according to London-based energy-focused hedge fund Westbeck Capital.
London-based global equity hedge fund Russell Clark Investment Management is eyeing a rise in global agricultural crop prices amid potential wider global food inflation, as a result of the disruptive impact of swine flu on China’s pig population.
China – the world’s foremost pig producer and consumer – has seen the cost of pork double after the African Swine Flu virus wiped almost two-thirds of the country’s pigs between 2018 and 2020, with prices there now six times those of the US.
In a note this week, Clark suggested that the global pork market is set to stay “very tight for a prolonged
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
