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JMP Group LLC (NYSE: JMP), an investment banking and alternative asset management firm, has announced management changes, including the resignation of Carter Mack from his position as president of the company and the promotion of Mark Lehmann to the role of chief executive officer of JMP Securities, the company’s primary operating subsidiary. Additionally, Thomas Wright has been named chief operating officer of JMP Securities, while managing directors Jonathan Dever and Gavin Slader have been named co-heads of investment banking and have joined JMP Group’s executive committee.
Carter Mack, formerly president of JMP Group and a member of the company’s executive committee,
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, is now recognised as an official “Connectivity Vendor” to the Moscow Exchange.
Zilliqa, a high-performance and high-security blockchain platform, has selected Singapore-based crypto custody service Onchain Custodian to secure its network’s assets. In working with the firm, the Zilliqa ecosystem will benefit from institutional-grade security and insured custody services for its ZIL and ZRC-2 tokens. To kickstart the engagement, Onchain Custodian will be providing support for XSGD, a Singapore dollar-backed stablecoin launched in collaboration with Xfers, the leading fintech payments platform for digital businesses.
Alexandre Kech, CEO at Onchain Custodian, says: “With new financial instruments emerging out of the blockchain space, better infrastructures need to be built with clients’ needs in mind. Beyond
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The immediate outlook for hedge funds is “very bright”, with elevated volatility at an “optimal” level for macro and relative value strategies in particular, JP Morgan Asset Management’s alternatives team said this week.
Jamie Kramer, managing director and head of the Alternatives Solutions Group at JP Morgan Asset Management, said many hedge funds were able to insulate investors’ portfolios during the Q1 market shock before taking advantage of rising markets during Q2’s rally.
That showing is now piquing investors’ interest, following a sustained period of allocator aversion in recent years.
“Facing a decade of headwinds with low interest rates, low
Digital asset trading platform Bitfinex has launched Bitfinex Pulse on mobile, enabling the exchange’s user base to obtain market-moving information on the go.Bitfinex Pulse is a social network tailored to meet the needs of crypto traders, providing Bitfinex’s growing customer base with the opportunity to leverage the exchange’s community to get a trading edge. Launched on both iOS and Android, Bitfinex Pulse adds to the plethora of advanced features powering the Bitfinex mobile app, providing traders with the best mobile trading experience.
Bitfinex Pulse on mobile will enable an eligible verified Bitfinex user to share his or her thoughts on
A new digital asset management platform and custody services offering aimed at institutions and asset managers has been launched by Huobi.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Self-service data analytics specialist Stratifyd has launched its new ‘next generation’ platform. Stratifyd says the analytics engine was re-designed from the ground up to be intuitive and easy-to-use, enabling business users – regardless of education, skill, or job function – to harness the power of proprietary and third-party data to easily reveal and understand hidden stories represented within the data, thus delivering the benefits of a data science team to every organisation.
The Stratifyd platform now provides the functionality to meet the data science needs of an organisation, but is specifically designed to be easy to use for those with limited
Established in 2004, HITE Hedge Asset Management is an alpha-focused energy specialist hedge fund firm which trades a range of energy-related securities throughout the entire carbon value chain.
R G Niederhoffer Capital Management, the New York-based quantitative trading advisor that employs a short-term contrarian investment strategy, has launched an alternative UCITS version of its flagship fund on Kepler Partners’ KLS UCITS platform. Kepler Liquid Strategies was established in 2016 and now has seven sub-funds with a combined AUM north of USD900 million.
The KLS Niederhoffer Smart Alpha UCITS Fund launched on 14 July 2020 and currently has USD47 million in AUM. The regulated vehicle will mirror the US firm’s short-term quantitative managed futures strategy, which has performed particularly well in recent market volatility.
The R G Niederhoffer flagship Diversified
