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News that hedge fund giant Citadel has built a 5% stake in Boohoo has boosted the online fashion retailer’s share price by 3.7%, according to a report by RetailSector.
Quasar Finance has raised $6 million from a range of leading investment firms, including Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital, Figment Capital, Lightshift Capital and Galileo.
Despite a broader industry trend that saw hedge fund redemptions accelerate slightly in May to -$27.53 billion (-0.54% of industry assets), some hedge fund subsectors did manage to add to assets over the month, according to the latest Barclay Fund Flow Indicator published by BarclayHedge.
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform is to provide free access to Santiment, a cryptocurrency analytics platform for researching on-chain data.
Santiment’s analytics tools are used by more than 2,000 hedge fund managers, retail customers, crypto project owners and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) creators. The service provides insights into cryptocurrency networks, blockchain-based projects, crowd sentiment and market behaviour. Now, building and executing data-driven trading strategies using on-chain data will become a native part of Bitfinex’s trading experience.
Starting from today, Bitfinex customers can obtain access to premium on-chain and social charts for more than 1,900 tokens without paying for a subscription.
Artisan Partners has launched a UCITS vehicle for the Artisan Emerging Markets Debt Opportunities Strategy. The strategy is managed by the Artisan Partners EMsights Capital Group, led by portfolio manager Michael Cirami, CFA, head of global trading Michael O’Brien, CFA, and portfolio manager Sarah Orvin, CFA.
Cirami will serve as lead portfolio manager and Ms. Orvin will serve as portfolio manager. The team also manages the Artisan Global Unconstrained and Artisan Emerging Markets Local Opportunities Strategies.
Each of the team’s three strategies offer broad exposure to the global and emerging markets debt asset classes, which consist of more than 100
Private equity and hedge funds have raised concerns over a US government plan to raise the level of tax on carried-interest income which could be damaging for both small businesses and big institutional investors, according to a report by Reuters.
Apifiny, a global cross-exchange digital asset trading network, has released Apifiny Algo V1.1, a crypto trading library in C++ for high frequency frading (HFT) and latency sensitive traders.
This solution fully supports futures trading, paper trading through Binance testnet, and has added Coinbase as an additional exchange, along with the launch of its Quant Library that allows investors to implement trading strategies with its ready-to-use components in the library.
With the release of QuantLib, Apifiny Algo V1.1 allows users to create trading strategies flexibly, while backtesting and live trading these strategies using a high-performance C++ trading engine. Traders can also
Galaxy Digital Asset Management (GDAM), the diversified asset-management arm of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd dedicated to the digital assets and blockchain technology industry, is investing in Europa Digital Assets, an active alternative investment manager focused on crypto opportunities.
GDAM’s investment will provide seed capital for the firm’s Europa Opportunistic Offshore Fund, a newly launched fund that will offer investors exposure to cryptocurrency markets by actively managing investments across the digital asset ecosystem, including spot assets, derivatives, and DeFi protocols. Europa will also utilise Galaxy Digital’s trading platform.
Additional terms of the partnership have not been disclosed.
Europa is managed by
Kyle Davies and Su Zhu, founders of Three Arrows Capital, may be forced to cooperate with the liquidators of the failed crypto hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Speaking on behalf of the liquidators during a bankruptcy hearing on Thursday, attorney Adam Goldberg said that Davies and Zhu have so far provided “rather selective and piecemeal disclosures” about the fund’s assets. Should they maintain their current level of cooperation, lawyers will turn to bankruptcy judge Martin Glenn for assistance in compelling the pair to provide more information.
To date, the liquidators, who were appointed by a judge in
Options Technology, a Capital Markets services provider, has achieved VMware Cloud Verified status in its Park Royal Data Center.
The accomplishment follows the VMware Cloud Provider Principal Partner Status awarded to the firm last year, along with Cloud Verified status at LHC, LD4 and NY5 sites.
Cloud Verification assures that a partner is validated to expertly deliver cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service across VMware’s best-in-class network, storage, and compute solutions to meet individual client needs specifically.
VMware Cloud Verified partner services enable customers to achieve unmatched levels of consistency, performance, and interoperability for traditional and containerised enterprise applications with the confidence the service
