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Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), India’s leading and premiere energy market platform has launched Indian Gas Exchange (IGX), the first nationwide online delivery-based gas trading platform. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Honourable Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, inaugurated the Indian Gas Exchange in an e-ceremony. The platform is fully automated with web-based interface to provide seamless trading experience to the customers and is powered by best-in-class technology from GMEX, one of the world’s leading digital exchange trading and post trade technology providers. Incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of the IEX – India’s leading energy market platform, IGX will enable market participants to
As global investment markets became more efficient and persistent low interest rates saw returns dry up, institutional investors have been turning to alternative assets in their efforts to generate performance. Since traditional hedge fund investments have often not fully lived up to their promises in the past decade, managers in the space are looking to offer access to other alternative assets, such as private capital, in their attempts to fulfil investors’ needs.
The largest capital introduction event in history has gone live today (15 June) with the launch of Funds4Food, a two-week network of virtual one-on-one meetings between alternative asset managers and leading allocators that is raising funds to aid relief efforts for victims of Covid-19.
Orchestrated by iConnections, the new Pennsylvania-based networking and software solutions business launched in April by ex-Context Summits founder Ron Biscardi, the online fundraiser is facilitating a round-the-clock series of private cap intro video-conference meetings until 2 July – with all proceeds from event registrations going to charities focused on Covid-19 hunger relief.
Over USD1.6 million has
Quantile Technologies (Quantile), a provider of multilateral optimisation services, has completed its first cleared interest rate initial margin (IM) optimisation run with LCH. Clients accessing this new service benefit from superior risk management and reduced margin funding costs, increasing the efficiency and liquidity of derivatives markets.
The new service bolsters Quantile’s extensive suite of optimisation services, which now includes regular runs for cleared FX and interest rates, together with uncleared SIMM optimisation for FX, interest rates and equities. By offering optimisation for both cleared and uncleared asset classes, Quantile connects liquidity pools and generates increased capital and margin benefits for
The Seychelles-based SECDEX Group, which comprises a licensed, regulated exchange (offering traditional and digital assets), central counterparty clearing house (CCP) and central securities depository with registry, has launched SECDEX Digital Custodian (SDC). SDC has been granted a licence under the Financial Services Authority (FSA) Sandbox to offer digital custody services and is now live.
As with all the companies within the SECDEX Group, the focus is to operate organised and reliable market infrastructure within regulated environments, which are attractive for participants and provide certainty to investors. SECDEX Exchange, which is live with its first members, facilitates the tokenisation, registration, primary issuance and
Managed futures strategies experienced an entire year’s worth of performance dispersion during a dramatic first three months of 2020, with trend-following hedge funds’ returns hinging as much on luck as skill, a new deep-dive analysis by multi-manager CTA portfolio investment firm Efficient Capital Management shows.
CTAs, particularly those trading short-term trends, were widely hailed for their strong returns during the coronavirus-driven sell-off earlier in the year, when other hedge fund strategy types suffered agonising losses.
But the sector was marked by a wide dispersion in returns, Efficient Capital Management, the Chicago-based managed futures specialist, noted in a webinar on Wednesday.
Blue River Partners (Blue River), a US-based provider of outsourced solutions to private equity and hedge funds has been acquired by IQ-EQ.Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
Tether.io, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, has eclipsed Ripple’s XRP to become the second largest altcoin behind Ethereum tokens (ETH).
CF Partners Capital Management, a London-based energy-focused hedge fund, is betting on a continued price recovery in energy markets heading into the second half of 2020.
Injective Protocol has formed a strategic partnership with WOOTRADE, a digital asset dark pool, to combine resources to focus on increasing user adoption in the Decentralised Exchanges (DEX) space. The collaboration will bring together a series of initiatives such as implementing liquidity management, designing crypto asset derivative products and markets, and establishing an international corporate brand.
Decentralised Exchanges (DEX) are one of the most widely talked about topics in Decentralised Finance (DeFi). It is often considered to be the inevitable next evolution of digital asset exchanges due to addressing the growing problems with centralised exchanges such as the lack of transparency
