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Trading volume in Cboe’s new Mini VIX futures totalled nearly 127,000 contracts during their first week. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Radix has launched the first layer-one protocol built specifically for decentralised finance. Radix is made up of four technologies: Cerberus, a high-speed network consensus mechanism; the Radix Engine, a purpose-built development environment for building DeFi applications; the Component Catalog, a library of DeFi building blocks; and the Developer Royalty System, a first-of-its kind decentralised incentive program. These core technologies were developed to prepare DeFi for mass adoption, and are detailed further in a new DeFi White Paper published by Radix.
Traditional financial systems require many layers of intermediation and manual processes, costing an estimated .05 per cent of the global GDP,
Managed futures funds were profitable in July as the CTA industry realised a 1.63 per cent monthly gain, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. For the year-to-date CTAs are up 2.49 per cent to the end of July.
“A resurgence of the Covid-19 virus and signs of slowing economic activity were not enough to derail a positive outlook based on vaccine hopes and promises of an accommodative monetary policy,” says Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge. “Equity prices rose, interest rates and the US dollar declined while gold prices rocketed to new all-time highs.”
The impact of the ongoing coronavirus crisis – which has seen an unprecedented market sell-off give way to a dizzying equity rally, with heightened volatility still tentatively looming over all manner of companies and sectors – is providing a rich assortment of relative value trading opportunities for Oliver Dobbs (pictured), founder and chief investment officer of London-based Credere Capital.
Before launching his relative value/convertible bond arbitrage fund in partnership with Trium Capital in 2017, Dobbs managed similar strategies for well-known hedge fund firms including CQS, Sir Michael Hintze’s multi-strategy credit-focused outfit, BlueCrest Capital Management, the long-running New York-based manager founded
Populous World the company behind the Populous Invoice Platform ‘PIP’ has launched Populous Exchange (PopEX), a new cryptocuurrency exchange. The sole purpose of PopEx is to further bring together the world of crypto and traditional finance under one roof, making it easier for users to access and trade various cryptocurrencies while also giving users direct access to traditional financial markets such as invoice finance via the PIP.
PopEx has been created with the same and enhanced security design which is currently used by the Populous Invoice Platform. The wallet functionality of the PopEx has now been integrated into the PIP making
Fund Recs’ Transfer Agency bank reconciliation module has been selected by SuMi TRUST for its fund services business in Ireland.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Clear Hedge Capital, a boutique lending group for alternative investment vehicles, and BitGo Prime, a digital asset financial services company, are to collaborate and focus exclusively on providing loans in the digital asset space to institutions with loan sizes of USD10 million and above.
Elliptic, the global leader in cryptoasset risk management solutions, is to monitor Binance Chain and its native cryptoasset BNB, which averages USD250 million in daily trading volume. Elliptic’s crypto transaction and wallet monitoring solutions, Navigator and Lens, automate compliance monitoring for BNB so that Binance and other exchanges listing this token can scale operations efficiently and improve accuracy in detecting suspicious activity on the blockchain.
Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, has been using Elliptic’s blockchain analytics solutions and services since 2019 for their global compliance operations, working together in all regions that Binance operates to help them comply with
The Maples Group is acting as administrator of the Fountainhead Alternative Vehicle (FAV), Hong Kong-based multi-family office Fountainhead Partners’ USD285 million fund of hedge funds (FoHF) which has an estimated YTD return of 33 per cent.Having supported Fountainhead since 2016, the Group’s fund services business provides a full range of administration services to FAV, including fund accounting, investor services, and AEOI and AML compliance support. Its customisable approach, robust technology and infrastructure, coupled with the expertise and experience of its team in working with sophisticated family office clients were key elements in Fountainhead’s decision to engage the Maples Group and
Hedge fund contrarian Russell Clark eyes euro rise against the dollar
Hedge fund contrarian Russell Clark eyes euro rise against the dollar