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Exchange services group Aquis Exchange is to add Czech and Hungarian blue-chip stocks to trading on its pan-European MTFs business, Aquis Exchange.
During the second quarter of 2022, some 300 additional stocks will be made available for trading on the Aquis Exchange UK and Aquis Exchange EU platforms, including the 13 largest, most liquid, Czech and Hungarian stocks.
The expansion of the Aquis Exchange trading universe by the addition of Czech and Hungarian stocks brings the total number of markets covered by the exchange to 17.
GK8, an institutional-grade self-managed digital asset custody platform with DeFi, staking, NFT, and tokenisation support, has onboarded four new clients in tiger past few weeks.
GK8’s solution is set to power the digital asset services of SolidBlock, a real estate tokenisation service and marketplace, JIC Bank, a licensed international bank headquartered in Puerto Rico, 2nd Market, a Brazilian digital assets exchange, and Proxibit, an Israeli cryptocurrency trading platform.
GK8 has also signed a new long-term agreement extending its partnership with eToro, the global social investing network.
In addition, GK8 is expanding its operations in the US and the UK
Ben Melkman’s Light Sky macro hedge fund is to close according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
The fund, which attracted investor interest from several other hedge fund managers including Steve A Cohen and Daniel Loeb, started trading in March 2017 and had around USD1 billion under management.
The fund has averaged returns of around 1 per cent a year since launch, although its made around 7 per cent a year in the three years to the end of December 2021.
The report says that Melkman, who made his name at Brevan Howard Asset Management thanks to a
Andrew Law, the Chief Executive of long running macro hedge fund Caxton Associates, says the UK should look to borrowing to address the country’s ‘depressing’ growth outlook, according to a report in the Financial Times.
LMAX Digital’s Managing Director, Jenna Wright, sat down with Gwyn Roberts (Chief Strategy Officer, Global Fund Media) to share her thoughts on:
Key developments on digital asset exchanges
How your digital assets fund will benefit from new innovation
The institutionalisation of the digital assets space
The fireside chat took place at the Hedge Fund US Digital Assets Summit on February 24th, at New York’s University Club.
To learn more about LMAX, please visit their website here.
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When iConnections launched in 2020 with its Funds4Food campaign, it saw a need to bring the hedge and private equity industries together to help victims of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Now the company is are pivoting its Funds4Kids cap intro event to the crisis in Ukraine as Funds4Ukraine.
For every completed meeting with an iConnections fund member, iConnections will donate USD100 to Concern Worldwide, a charity whose Emergency Fund is earmarked for emergencies, including the Ukraine Crisis.
Concern’s Emergency Response Team is currently assessing the humanitarian needs along the Ukraine borders with Poland. It plans to assess the situation along the
Copper.co, a provider of digital asset custody and trading infrastructure, has appointed Sabrina Wilson as Chief Operating Officer. Wilson takes up her new role with immediate effect.
Wilson was formerly the Global co-Head of the Futures, OTC Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage business at Citi and also oversaw a period of development of the bank’s global execution and algorithmic platforms in Futures. Throughout her career, she has navigated many regulatory changes, such as the introduction of MIFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR and more recently advised the EU Commission and ESMA on Clearing regulation, which makes her well-placed to steer Copper through
SEI Novus, a global portfolio intelligence platform company, has released its monthly pan-European short position data for February, revealing the most significant market trends and moves.
Singapore Exchange-backed private market platform ADDX has appointed Oi-Yee Choo was its Chief Executive Officer, subject to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) approval.
The ADDX platform was founded in 2017 and began full commercial operations in 2020 after becoming one of the first digital securities exchanges to graduate from the MAS Fintech Regulatory Sandbox. Leading the company into its next phase of growth, Ms Choo projects that the ADDX platform will record USD1 billion in transactions by 2023, entrenching its position as Asia’s largest private market exchange.
As a multi-asset exchange, ADDX has onboarded funds, bonds and equities. Asset
