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Postera Capital, a specialist in crypto-specific investment products and strategies, has acquired sentiment analytics start-up Augmento. In 2018, Berlin-based Fintech Augmento began developing the sentiment analysis algorithm for cryptoassets, quickly becoming a major player in the alternative data industry.
With the acquisition, Postera Capital strengthens its position as a pioneer in crypto consulting as well as its investment vehicle Postera Fund – Crypto I, the first EU-regulated crypto fund.
The acquisition of Augmento, which has some of the most advanced forecasting capabilities in the industry, supports Postera’s expansion and development of its quantitative investment strategies.
“Augmento has developed a unique AI
With the proliferation of financial data and cloud technologies, customer requirements to ingest and analyse data are diversifying and evolving fast. Driven by data suppliers’ demand to leverage its ready-made infrastructure and services, Crux Informatics (Crux) has unveiled a new offering, Crux Deliver, which expands its platform to help data suppliers improve their delivery capabilities.
Crux says this turnkey, managed service provides powerful technology capabilities to support delivery expansion for suppliers at a fraction of the cost of developing their own infrastructure.
“From exchanges to alternative data providers, suppliers need to rely on a platform to deliver data quickly and at
Rosetta Analytics has launched RL One, a new reinforcement learning-driven investment strategy that aims to produce positive returns in any market environment. The strategy has been funded by a US institutional investor.RL One is a long/short strategy that generates returns through deep reinforcement learning, a category of machine learning that reacts and learns from its environment by determining which decision will result in the highest risk/reward trade-off. The reinforcement learning model predicts optimal long or short exposure to the S&P 500 Index on a market-close to market-close basis. This exposure could range from 100 per cent long to 100 per
Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a specialist in compliance, risk and infrastructure solutions for equity, options and futures trading, has unveiled a new offering of digital asset trading capabilities through a partnership with Voyager Digital.The Sterling Crypto Widget gives traders the ability to buy, sell and trade cryptocurrencies, with the widgets fully integrated into the Sterling Trader Pro and Sterling Trader Web & Mobile platforms. The widget provides market intelligence, including prices, positions, order lists, charts, asset meta-data and crypto news.
“As more investors are seeking exposure to the digital asset class, we are excited to officially add a cryptocurrency
Osmosis Investment Management, a London based sustainable asset manager, has closed an equity investment from Capricorn’s Sustainable Investors Fund, a seeding fund focused on sustainable and impact investment managers. The deal, which was closed in the first quarter of 2020, will see Capricorn’s Sustainable Investors Fund join the Oxford Endowment Fund as large minority shareholders of Osmosis (Holdings) Limited and Capricorn partner Michaela Edwards take a seat on the Osmosis board. The strategic equity investment will deepen the firm’s US presence and facilitate the launch of the Osmosis Sustainable Market Neutral Strategy for US investors.
The strategy will be a levered
Traders using Deutsche Börse’s Xetra can now leverage ultra-low latency colocation connections as fast as 5-85 nanoseconds via Transaction Network Services’ (TNS) innovative TNSXpress Layer 1 solution.TNS is offering a combination of managed hosting, colocation and connectivity options which utilise the TNSXpress Layer 1 single hop architecture that is up to 10 times faster than traditional Layer 3 architectures. This development also allows TNS to provide the Xetra Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) feed, in addition to the market by price feed it offered previously.
“We’re delighted to be building on our relationship with Deutsche Börse by introducing these
As the global economy slowly emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, conditions could be set for a weaker US dollar, in turn strengthening emerging market equities, according to new research by analysts at Man Group.
Sentifi has launched new investment analytics to allow institutional investors to detect portfolio sentiment and market momentum in real-time, based on data from social media, news, and blogs.
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SmartStream Tecnologies has extended its Public API allowing clients to have direct programmatic access to the company’s TLM Collateral Management solution. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Wheelhouse Advisors, a specialist provider of services to the financial services sector, has launched following a private equity backed management buyout of the Financial & Regulatory Reporting and Tax divisions of ACA Compliance Group.The London-headquartered business has operated since the early 2000s, initially as the boutique firms HedgeStart and Sigma Partnership, before their merger as Cordium Accounting Limited. The incumbent management team has been bolstered by the addition of Louis Hunter as Finance Director to help drive strategic acquisitions.
Backed by private equity firm Pelican Capital, the 40-strong Wheelhouse Advisors team provides holistic solutions across disciplines to its clients, whether
