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Lendingblock, a securities lending exchange for digital assets, has partnered with digital assets custodian Vo1t to provide a cold storage capability for clients.
Vo1t will support Lendingblock’s platform by offering a 24/7 global custody service that will ensure funds are kept in high security cold storage while still being accessible within 30 minutes by Lendingblock and clients. Importantly, clients’ funds are kept segregated, preventing the commingling of assets and maintaining transparency around how a client’s assets are being handled and stored.
Funds will only be transferred out of cold storage to be sent back to the borrower upon loan
SwissOne Capital, an asset management company specialising in crypto, is to launch what it says is the market’s first tokenised and fully-regulated index fund.
Crypto as an asset class continues to edge towards maturity, and each regulatory win advances that evolution. While other crypto funds exist, SwissOne Capital’s fund will be the first to offer the liquid utility of tokenisation with the safeguards of regulatory recognition. They will be licensed by FINMA for Swiss distribution.
According to a PwC global blockchain survey, regulatory uncertainty stands as the number one barrier to entry in the crypto market, with lack
Cryptocurrency clearinghouse Mint Exchange is now live providing access to all major exchanges, brokers and market makers through a single account.
Mint Exchange allows institutions to trade across all major cryptocurrency exchanges providing access to the most liquidity at the best price all while keeping capital in a secure institutional environment. Many of the top global FX brokers are already trading cryptocurrencies on Mint Exchange. With this public launch, Mint Exchange welcomes the participation of all qualified institutions.
“We’re addressing an enormous unmet need in the growing cryptocurrency market,” says Harpal Sandhu, Chairman of Mint Exchange. “FX brokers, asset managers, and institutions
HPR (Hyannis Port Research), a provider of capital markets infrastructure (CMI) technologies, has launched Omnibot, a new networking device that integrates market access, risk management, data and latency capture functionality into a multi-application switch.
Through the combination of FPGA-based risk hardware and a network switch within a single device, HPR has introduced a “net-zero” latency solution by performing risk checks in parallel with switching.
Since launching in 2011, HPR has built a reputation for offering the industry’s leading pre-trade risk and market access solution through its Riskbot platform, an award-winning, FPGA-based technology that is used by nearly 100 of
The need for selectivity among investors will be in greater focus in 2019, according to PineBridge Investments (PineBridge), an investment manager with USD91.4 billion in assets under management.
“Heading into 2019, global macroeconomic uncertainty continues to rise and the spectre of disruption, whether it be from geopolitics, technological innovation, or business investment, is becoming more real than ever,” says Greg Ehret, CEO of PineBridge. “These dynamics are leading to rising dispersion among assets, underscoring the need for investors to be highly selective across asset classes.”
PineBridge’s 2019 Global Investment Outlook, “Rising Above the Business Cycle,” outlines the firm’s view
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned -2.07 per cent in October, largely underperforming the 1.04 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index family is a joint offering between Wilshire Funds Management, the global investment management business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated, and Wilshire Analytics, creator of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index.
“October was a volatile month as markets processed the potential impacts of rising interest rates, as well as the ongoing presence of global geopolitical
BTIG’s Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities division has added a Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities desk led by Weston Friedman.
Friedman will be based in the firm’s New York office and will report into Drew Doscher and Darren Haines, Managing Directors and Co-Heads of Fixed Income Credit at BTIG.
Friedman joins BTIG as a Managing Director and Head of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS).
“Weston is a key hire as we expand our fixed income business into structured products. His experience on both the buy and sell side establishes a solid foundation for this team as we look to add
Private equity and hedge fund managers alike are finding their investor base is challenging what products fit best within their portfolio and, in many cases, no longer want a “one size fits all”, according to EY’s 12th annual Hedge Fund Survey, which has been released under the new name of the Global Alternatives Survey.
The survey – ‘At the Tipping Point: Disruption and the pace of change in the alternative asset management industry’ – explores specific disruptions that are impacting all asset managers, and finds that, while overall allocations to alternatives are steady, investors seem to be challenging large allocations
Schwyzer Kantonalbank has selected Allfunds as its B2B fund platform partner, becoming its provider to access third party mutual funds.
The Bank has signed an agreement with Allfunds for the use of services in the area of fund selection and the automated processing of the third-party fund business.
Schwyzer Kantonalbank’s investment solutions in advisory and discretionary wealth management are now supported by the services provided by Allfunds Bank.
Schwyzer Kantonalbank says by selecting Allfunds as a fund platform provider, its gains access to a very broad universe of investment funds, relying on Allfunds as a provider that delivers
Temenos has formed a new partnership with Curo Fund Services, a South African third party administrator and provider of investment operations and fund accounting services to life companies, asset managers and multi-managers, with assets under administration of more than USD150 billion.
Under this new agreement, Curo will migrate more than 3,000 funds from its five legacy fund accounting platforms to a single instance of Temenos’ Multifonds Global Accounting platform. The move will transform Curo’s operating model by simplifying its architecture and enabling more automated exception-based processing to increase efficiencies, reduce costs and open up new opportunities for growth.
