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Diginex has announced the public launch of its digital asset exchange EQUOS.io, which has been built to institutional-grade specifications and designed to improve the experience of trading digital assets for all market participants. The launch of the exchange is another important milestone for Diginex in advance of the planned business combination with 8i Enterprises Acquisition Corp, the NASDAQ-listed special purpose acquisition company (Nasdaq: JFK), which, upon expected completion in the third quarter of 2020, will offer investors the opportunity to participate in the growth of this emerging asset class via the public markets.
The EQUOS.io platform will feature a fully
Albar Capital, a London based absolute return Investment Manager, has gone live on Fund Recs Velocity platform to automate position reconciliations. Velocity is a set of cloud-based software modules that helps investment managers, global fund administrators and auditors to achieve straight through reconciliations and data processing in their middle and back offices.
Rajesh Krishnan, Head of Operations at Albar Capital, says: “We are delighted to partner with Fund Recs to implement Velocity to automate our position reconciliations. Velocity has made our team more efficient by eliminating manual processes, reducing risk of errors and ensuring automation throughout our reconciliation process.”
Appital, the Equity Capital Marketplace, has built and deployed its desktop application on the OpenFin operating system (OS). Appital aims to brings transparency and automation to Equity Capital Markets (ECM). The Appital platform allows buy side firms to gain greater exposure to deal flow opportunities they have not been able to access before, helping portfolio managers and heads of trading build a comprehensive picture of liquidity, including highly illiquid, small and mid-cap stocks.
The Appital platform enables deal participants to uncover and unlock liquidity, while providing deal originators with the opportunity to execute large volumes, often in excess of 5 days
Hedge fund short sellers could soon be circling the troubled Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk, after Polygon Global Partners built a sizeable short bet in the London-listed company, which is facing major governance issues.
BACCI Investment Solutions, a discretionary financial services provider based in South Africa, has launched its inaugural Irish UCITS fund, the BACCI Global Equity Fund, on the Prescient Global Funds ICAV platform.
The UCITS compliant fund aims to achieve optimal and consistent returns over time, investing in global equity markets. BACCI Investment Solutions aims to invest in quality companies with good long-term prospects, a credible track record and a robust business model. They utilise a solid fundamental analysis approach over time, aiming to minimise any style bias, resulting in a concentrated yet well-diversified portfolio. The reference benchmark is the MSCI World
State Street’s foreign exchange and fixed income best execution analytics platform BestX has launched a post-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) module for equity markets.
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Sucden Financial, a global multi-asset execution, clearing and liquidity provider, has launched its TY3 (Tokyo) matching engine, in conjunction with FlexTrade Systems.The new matching engine targets Asia-Pacific clients, providing a significant reduction in cross-region latency and an overall enhanced experience, with improvements to liquidity and price discovery during Asia trading hours. Combined with Sucden Financial’s established NY4 and LD4 infrastructure, the addition of TY3 brings ultra-low latency access to the company’s unique and customised liquidity across all three regions.
“We are very excited to add our TY3 venue to Sucden Financial’s ever-expanding suite of eFX products, as well as for
Confluence Technologies has unveiled a new fully integrated business model following the completion of its integration of the former StatPro Group.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Samtrade FX, an online trading brokerage that is committed to providing traders with safe, easy and low-cost access to Forex and Contracts for Differences (CFD) trading, has been registered and authorised as an Appointed Representative by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).This latest licence reinforces Samtrade FX’s ability to operate as an authorised and trusted financial services provider for securities in multiple territories.
To ensure it continues to adhere to the FCA’s specific AML compliance regulations – such as monitoring for suspicious activity and performing risk assessments, Samtrade FX has recently appointed Vic Tham, a veteran in the field of
Injective Protocol, a fully decentralised derivatives exchange protocol, has raised USD2.6 million dollars in a seed funding round led by Pantera Capital with participation from institutional investors including QCP’s investment arm QCP Soteria, Axia8 Ventures, and OK’s strategic investment partner K42.Injective Protocol aims to solve critical scalability and user experience bottlenecks that trouble decentralised exchanges (DEXs). Beyond providing working capital, the new strategic investors will also provide liquidity solutions for the decentralised exchange as well as support Injective Protocol’s business development and market brand recognition internationally.
Paul Veradittakit, Partner at Pantera Capital, commented on Injective Protocol, says: “Injective Protocol scalably
