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Digital asset data infrastructure company Brave New Coin has rolled out its long-awaited DeFi index, which is now available on BTSE as a perpetual swap contract.
BTSE is a fast-growing, multi-currency spot and futures trading platform launched in 2018 by Jonathan Leong, a serial technology entrepreneur and a serial coder with significant experience and expertise in crypto-centric ecosystems, and Brian Wong, with more than 10 years’ experience in trading and financial technologies.
The launch of the BNC-BTSE DeFi Index represents the first of five innovative perpetual swap derivative products to go live by the end of 2020.
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Ideal Prediction (Ideal), a trading analysis and data science company for the capital markets, has appointed Jonathan Fieldman and Geoff Jones to its Advisory Board.
Fieldman says: “Having spent the past 16 years at Broadway Technology leading the transformation of FICC electronic trading, I have witnessed the need for increased assurance and attestation to ethical behaviour. With its leadership, depth of knowledge, and proven financial analytics solutions, Ideal Prediction is perfectly positioned to lead the evolution of the supervisory function and first line of defence.”
Jones says: “As someone with an acute awareness of the personal risks associated with managing
Talos, a technology provider for the institutional trading of digital assets, has launched public access to its platform which connects the diverse group of participants involved in today’s crypto-asset market structure – institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders and custodians.
The Talos platform, which — has been live for the last year, delivers a suite of solutions that supports clients through the full trading lifecycle — from price discovery to execution through clearing and settlement, across spot, futures and FX markets.
“The ability to safely and efficiently trade digital assets has been one of the biggest challenges limiting institutional
BT has agreed a seven-year contract with TP ICAP, a provider of market infrastructure. The new contract will provide its 700-strong broker team in London with a secure, software-based platform and applications featuring remote working capabilities. The new service will further strengthen TP ICAP’s execution services across voice trading venues.BT Trading is a unified communications and collaboration (UCC) platform engineered specifically for the high-performance real-time trading, regulatory and security needs of the global capital markets. It can be accessed by brokers working remotely and is integrated with leading unified communications platforms from Microsoft and Cisco. It includes a powerful suite
BMLL Technologies, a provider of data and analytics services to banks and brokers, to asset managers, global exchange groups, hedge funds and quants, has added two Sales Directors to its team.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
IntegriDATA, a FinTech software vendor, has launched Wire Chains, a revolutionary new feature that expedites dependent wire processing for its CashWire Payment System (CashWire). Wire Chains allows investment managers to quickly create a series of dependent wires that automatically execute in sequence as cash moves throughout the chain, helping them make complex payments with ease.
“Wire Chains brings advanced automation to CashWire, streamlining sequential payments into a single fluid action,” says Ted Haslam, Treasury Product Manager at IntegriDATA. “We’re excited to offer our clients a new way to process payments faster and easier than ever before.”
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GTCOM Technology Corporation (GTCOM-US), an alternative data fintech firm providing firms with smarter insights into China, is to become the first Asia-pacific alternative data provider on Bloomberg’s alternative data catalogue.The company will be providing sentiment data derived from its proprietary big data engine, giving Bloomberg Data License clients unique access to sentiment data from China to help drive alpha within their trading strategies.
The sentiment analysis of 5 popular buckets, including Global Luxury Brands, the Technology Media Telecom Sector, as well as a Russell US 3000 Aggregate category will be updated daily on Enterprise Access Point. GTCOM-US’s data is
The rate of new hedge fund launches grew between April and June following the coronavirus-fuelled first quarter slump, as hedge fund performance recovered – but the number of new roll-outs over the past 12 months remains “historically low”, Hedge Fund Research says.
New hedge fund launches totalled an estimated 129 in the second quarter. That number was a sharp increase on Q1 which proved the highest quarterly launch total since 153 funds were rolled out in Q2 2019, according to HFR’s latest Market Microstructure Report.
But the number of estimated fund launches during the preceding four quarters reached just 404
The CFTC has ordered JPMorgan to pay a record USD920.2 million, the largest amount of monetary relief ever imposed by the CFTC, to settle charges of manipulative and deceptive conduct and spoofing.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Multi-strategy hedge fund Algebris’ macro chief eyes Biden victory in US election battle
Multi-strategy hedge fund Algebris’ macro chief eyes Biden victory in US election battle