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Bellinger Asset Management (Bellinger) has appointed Greg Hampton as CEO of its recently established Bellinger Credit business.
In this role, Hampton will lead Bellinger’s credit strategy, which will initially focus on further secondary market debt and lending investments in the aviation sector while also exploring credit opportunities in other real asset classes over time.
Gr Hampton eg joins Bellinger with more than 25 years of asset finance experience gained within leading global banks. He was most recently the executive in charge of National Australia Bank’s Global Asset Finance business and, prior to that, held senior roles in Asset Finance at
Bittrex, a US-based cryptocurrency exchange, has added support for USD Coin (USDC) to its list of trading pairs.
Advisor Group has selected CAIS, an alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, to provide a platform solution for improved alternative investment access, education and transaction workflow.
Genesis, an institutional crypto derivatives provider, has joined the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) as a Primary Member.
Genesis, through its GGC International Limited entity, was one of the first participants in the crypto derivatives market and enters into over-the-counter derivatives referencing a broad range of digital asset underliers. Its team of trading professionals facilitates transactions for both crypto-natives and traditional financial market participants who want to enter this unique market.
As a member of ISDA, Genesis will continue to help shape the direction of the digital asset derivatives markets towards making them safe and efficient for all participants.
The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) has sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in support of the SEC’s proposal to strengthen private funds regulation, including private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds.
Pangea Fund Management, a new company formed by Ryan Watkins and Daniel Cheung, has secured $85 million to start a new crypto hedge fund, According Roma report by Bloomberg.
Bucking the digital assets space trend which has seen lots of managers back early-stage projects, the fund will focus on investments in already successful tokens.
The fund will focus on investment co-founded a long-only crypto fund for already successful tokens, when many funds in the digital-asset space are focusing on early-stage projects.
Investors backing Watkins, a 25-year-old former analyst at Messari Inc, and Cheung, who worked at Jennison Associates LLC, include
Research from SigTech’s 2021 annual Hedge Fund Research Report saw 80 per cent of hedge fund managers expecting institutional investors to increase their allocation to quant strategies over the following year, and 86 per cent expecting quant hedge fund strategies to increase allocations over the following five years.
Muzinich & Co (Muzinich) has launched the Muzinich Dynamic Credit Income Fund (DCI), which is designed for investors seeking outperformance in rising credit markets without taking excessive risks.
DCI targets a high level of portfolio income throughout the credit cycle while searching for opportunities presented by dislocated markets. The DCI portfolio has a flexible approach, with allocations dynamically changing depending on the stage of the credit cycle. This flexibility will allow the fund to pursue its higher income objective and to be fully invested across the credit segments, even during volatile markets.
Michael McEachern is the Fund’s Lead Portfolio Manager.
The European Power Spot markets reached a total volume of 50.0 TWh in April. A total of 39.2 TWh were traded in the Day-Ahead markets while the Intraday markets reached 10.8 TWh during the last month.
Trading in European Power Derivatives amounted to 219.6 TWh, with increases in the Dutch (+41%), Austrian (+8%) and Swiss Power Futures (+51%).
The US Power Derivatives market increased by 14% to 244.2 TWh.
The European Natural Gas Spot market reached a total volume of 276.7 TWh which marks an increase of 78% compared to April 2021.
All Spot market areas showed increased volumes.
StoneX has selected Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a specialist provider of low-latency microservices and technology solutions for financial services, to enhance its equities trading performance.
StoneX selected Chronicle’s software in a competitive process to replace incumbent trading technology.
The Chronicle FIX engine is a core trading technology built to meet the most stringent performance and resilience requirements. It offers exceptional low latency, high throughput (c1m messages per server/second), rule-based routing for ease of scalability, multi-level security and a robust design supporting uninterrupted trading.
