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Allison DiClemente has been appointed Director, Capital Introduction at Marex, a provider of liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to hedge funds and other clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.
Premialab has appointed Jens Janke, former Head of Risk at hedge funds RAM and EIS, as its new Head of Data & Risk Solutions. In his new role, Janke will lead the development of what Premialab says is a key market segment for the business.
The SEC has suffered a major setback in its bid to increase oversight of the hedge fund industry after a US appeals court threw out a new rule requiring managers to provide investors with quarterly disclosures of their fees and expenses.
Arbelos, a principal trading firm focusing on cryptocurrency derivatives markets, and B2C2, a specialist in institutional liquidity for digital assets, have completed the first bilateral option transaction on a bitcoin volatility index, the BVIV Index.
Citadel, Ken Griffin’s $63bn Miami-based hedge fund firm, which, according to LCH Investments, is the most profitable hedge fund of all time, lost money in May, with its flagship Wellington fund down 0.8%, according to a report by Business Insider.
Digital assets prime brokerage GCEX has appointed Jonathan Brewer as Chief Revenue Officer in a move aimed at driving growth from institutional and professional clients across all several markets including the UK, Denmark and the UAE.
Post-trade market infrastructure specialist DTCC is expecting daily Treasury volumes through its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation to rise by over $4tn once the SEC’s expanded US Treasury clearing rules take effect.
Millennium portfolio manager Alexander Altmann has left the multi-strategy hedge fund major to head up a new strategy role within Barclays’ equities trading desk in New York as Head of Equities Tactical Strategies, according to a report by Financial News.
Activist hedge fund firm Elliott Investment Management is pushing SoftBank Group to launch a $15bn share buyback programme after rebuilding a stake in the Japanese technology investor worth more than $2bn, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Dymon Asia Capital, the Asia-focused hedge fund firm founded by Danny Yong and Keith Tan in 2008, is expanding its Hong Kong office bucking a local trend that has seen many international financial firms reduce their floorspace in the city.
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