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BEQUANT, cryptocurrency exchange and prime brokerage, has launched BEQUANT DIRECT, a new Advanced Connectivity Service offering a low-latency co-located trading environment for institutional and professional traders.
BEQUANT’s co-location service will offer ultra-fast transfer of data, allowing for faster execution speeds and more efficient trading. As the cryptocurrency market grows increasingly stable, traders are looking for the fastest trading possible in order to remain competitive in the market.
This service will address the needs of BEQUANT’s professional clients, targeting sub-millisecond tick-to-trade latency for co-located clients. Using FIX 4.4-based order routing and market data connections, traders can action up to 1,000
Capital markets software firm genesis has launched Creative Studio to accelerate the development and deployment of scalable and interoperable products and solutions over the web, without the need to write any code.
This innovative launch by genesis comes in response to the growing market demand to build and deploy web-based solutions across capital markets, including buy-side & sell-side, execution venues and clearing houses.
Creative Studio delivers web applications, within hours, instead of the usual weeks and months, vastly expediting time to market. It does this by producing single-page web applications as well as OpenFin applications from a single application codebase. Once
Grey, a global advertising and marketing organisations, has partnered with Meyler, a marketing/placement agency focused exclusively on the alternative investment sector.
“The alternative investment sector really is one of the few remaining industries that has not fully embraced marketing, which is remarkable when you consider the level of competition that exists. It’s a proven fact that powerful marketing can open doors and influence outcomes,” says Alex Morrison, President of Grey West.
“Fund managers have known for a long time that raising capital isn’t just about performance,” says Kyle Dunn, President & CEO of Meyler. “The industry has only recently looked
Fiera Capital Corporation (Fiera Capital) is to acquire acquire all of the outstanding shares of Foresters Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Foresters Financial.
Foresters Asset Management is an Ontario-based investment management firm focused on institutional and insurance liability-driven investment (LDI) with approximately CAD10.5 billion in assets under management (AUM) as of 30 April, 2019. Following closing of the transaction, Fiera Capital’s total liability-driven investment (LDI) AUM will exceed USD25 billion.
“The combination of Foresters Asset Management with Fiera Capital will enhance our leading Canadian institutional fixed income and LDI capabilities. This transaction will provide Fiera Capital with an
Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) has appointed Eszter Vitorino Fuleky to the position of Senior Responsible Investment Advisor. Within the Responsible Investment team, she will focus predominantly on corporate governance.
Since 2010, Eszter Vitorino Fuleky (38) has worked for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international, independent organisation that establishes sustainability reporting guidelines for organisations and government agencies, where she held several positions. In the past few years, in the position of Head of Capital Markets Engagement, she was responsible for the relationships with stakeholders on the capital markets, ranging from stock exchanges to shareholders and asset managers.
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Pennington Fund, a private, non-ETF hedge fund for high net worth and institutional investors, has appointed Yusuf Yasseen as an Investment Adviser serving South Africa.
Yasseen is a financial investment professional with more than 12 years of experience in South Africa. Pennington specialises in offering tax-efficient Asian offshore investment opportunities to international clients. Yusuf Yasseen and Pennington Fund will now introduce that same offshore experience to South African HNW, institutional investors and advisors.
Huobi Group has launched Huobi OTC Desk, a fully regulated service built on Huobi’s Gibraltar FSC-issued Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license supporting both crypto-to-crypto and fiat-to-crypto transactions, including those made in US dollars (USD), British pound sterling (GBP), and euros (EUR) for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and other cryptocurrencies.
The service is aimed at institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and others looking to make high volume digital asset trades.
“We see a lot of appetite out there from players in more established financial markets when it comes to digital assets, but many are still uncomfortable jumping into unregulated trading
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index gained 1.06 per cent in April, after recording one of its strongest Q1 returns post-crisis, according to the May 2019 Eurekahedge Report. On a year-to-date basis, the index was up 5.15 per cent, and roughly 21.8 per cent of the hedge fund managers comprising it have recorded double-digit gains over the first four months of the year.
The global hedge fund industry AUM has grown by USD27.0 billion as of April 2019 year-to-date. Final Q1 2019 net outflows figure stood at USD46.4 billion, just under half of the investor redemptions totalling USD94.7 billion seen in
Malta-based digital assets exchange OKEx is to implement a comprehensive upgrade of its futures trading platform to improve risk management on digital asset trading market. The changes will be implemented in the second half of May 2019.
A new Tiered Maintenance Margin Ratio System is being adopted to avoid the liquidation of large positions, causing big impact on market liquidity. First introduced on OKEx Perpetual Swap Trading, tiered maintenance margin ratio system has effectively improved the trading experience of our users. Not only does it prevent cascade liquidation, but it also enables users to have a wider choice of leverage
Hedge funds proved unable to turn February’s net inflows into a two-month trend, as March saw USD11.0 billion in hedge fund redemptions worldwide, a dramatic shift from February’s USD12.1 billion in inflows.
Hedge funds’ March outflows represented 0.4 per cent of hedge fund assets, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator, published by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
March redemptions were fuelled by investor fears of a global recession, but also by local factors that made the bulk of redemptions a regional affair.
Data from the nearly 7,000 funds included in the BarclayHedge database showed hedge funds in most
