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Arini, a hedge fund firm founded by former Credit Suisse credit trader Hamza Lemssouguer, has continued its recent hiring spree by acquiring the services of another big bank credit trader – Deutsche Bank’s Ardacan Celebi, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Celebi, who spent five years with Deutsche as a credit index trader in London, has joined Arini as a cross asset trader, in his first foray into the hedge fund space.
Prior to Deutsche Bank, he had stints with Barclays Investment Bank, JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.
Arini has been building out its team this year, with
Automated global electronic broker Interactive Brokers has launched a Securities Lending Dashboard, which is designed to help sophisticated individual and institutional investors, including hedge funds, assess the short-selling activity for specific securities and inform trading decisions.
The new dashboard allows users to view an expanded universe of securities lending data across key metrics. This complements Interactive Brokers’ existing Securities Loan Borrow (SLB) system, which is a fully electronic and actionable self-service utility that allows clients to search for stocks available to short on the Interactive Brokers platform for free.
Powered by Orbisa, the new securities lending data includes information for
Finbourne Technology, a provider of cloud-native data management SaaS solutions to hedge funds, asset managers and other financial services firms, has appointed Neil Ryan as Head of Product Marketing and Solution Positioning. 
Digital asset investment products saw $137m of inflows last week, taking total inflows for the last four weeks to $742m, the largest run of inflows since the final quarter of 2021, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
Akin has appointed Patrick Dundas as a partner in the firm’s investment management practice in New York. Joining from Schulte Roth & Zabel with more than 15 years experience in the private funds industry, he will lead the market intelligence and legal practice infrastructure initiative.
How has the era of institutionalisation impacted the hedge fund industry? Patrick Ghali, managing partner and co-founder of alternatives-focused investment consultant Sussex Partners – which marks its 20th anniversary in 2023 – offers his insight.
A US court ruling that Microsoft’s proposed $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard can proceed despite anti-trust objections from the Federal Trade Commission, has provided a major boost for merger-arbitrage investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Two Sigma Investments, the $60bn quant hedge-fund giant known for using computer-driven algorithms to make money, is looking to add a human touch to its investment strategies for the first time by employing traders who use their own personal judgement to generate returns, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Hedge funds upped their bets against the yen to the highest level in more than year just as the currency was in the middle of a two-week rally, according to a report by Bloomberg citing data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Online grocer Ocado, Swedish property firm Fastighets AB Balder, and French train maker Alstom, were among the three most shorted stocks in June, but all three saw positive share price performance over the month, according to a report by Reuters.
