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Ocorian, a provider of private client, fund, corporate, capital markets, and regulatory and compliance services, has developed and launched Optics, a reporting and interactive dashboard tool to improve the efficiency of capital markets transactions globally.
Capital markets transactions are traditionally very complex and include many different parties, with access to transactional data often very restricted. With Ocorian Optics, clients can now break down transactions and loans per user and present the data in visual, completely customisable reports and dashboards. This gives full oversight of the transaction and the user’s individuals commitments, assets, loan and debt types in a user-friendly form.
Talos, an institutional digital asset technology provider, has added the global OSL Exchange to its partner network.
As a result, Talos users can now seamlessly access liquidity found on OSL’s global exchange, which aggregates order books across Asia, the Americas, and OSL’s white-label platforms, including its soon-to-launch European joint venture with Standard Chartered.
OSL is a subsidiary of the HKSE-listed, “Big-Four” audited BC Technology Group (stock code: 863) and is license-exempt under the Payment Services Act by the MAS in Singapore, OSL is also registered as a Money Services Business with FINCEN in the United States.
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Value Partners Group Limited has appointed Ellen Tsang as Managing Director, Head of Marketing and Communications, effective 21 February 2022.
Tsang is responsible for the overall marketing and communications function of the Group. She will take charge of the Group’s branding, marketing, corporate communications and investor relations. Tsang based in Hong Kong, and she reports to the Group’s President, June Wong.
Tsang was formerly Head of Marketing for Asia ex-Japan at State Street Global Advisors and has over 20 years of marketing experience.
Allianz is close to agreeing settlements with the major investors in its failed Structured Alpha hedge funds, which failed during the early days of the global pandemic, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Quant hedge fund Engineers Gate is in discussion with both Millennium Management and Point72 Asset Management over a possible acquisition of the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Yieldstreet, a digital alternative investment platform dedicated to providing access to exclusive private market opportunities, has partnered with Pantera Capital to introduce its first-ever crypto fund, Pantera Early Stage Token Fund I.
The Yieldstreet fund offers investors access into a Pantera fund that has generated a lifetime return of over 1,400 per cent through December 2021. The Pantera fund is expected to continue making direct investments in pre-ICO tokens created by teams and entrepreneurs who are building new protocols in the blockchain ecosystem. Prior pre-ICO investments the Pantera fund has made include polkadot, amp, and aurora.
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LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has made three new hires who will work to enhance and expand its comprehensive LBX Sell-Side solution.
Brian Cabra will serve as Vice President of Implementations, Ryan Stankus will serve as Vice President of Product Management and Terrence Cheung will serve as Vice President of Post-Trade Product Management.
Cabra, Stankus and Cheung join the firm amid a robust growth period for LiquidityBook’s sell-side client base. Cabra will spearhead implementation and delivery management of the solution for broker-dealers, while Stankus will work closely with COO Sayant Chatterjee to oversee all aspects
Innocap Investment Management Inc is to acquire BNY Mellon’s HedgeMark business to create a single technology-enabled alternative investment platform.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a civil enforcement action charging James R Velissaris of Atlanta, Georgia with fraud in connection with a multi-faceted scheme to overvalue the assets managed by his multi-billion dollar hedge fund.
The CFTC seeks restitution to defrauded pool participants, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, civil monetary penalties, permanent registration and trading bans, and permanent injunctions against further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations, as charged.
The complaint alleges that during the relevant period, from at least 1 January, 2018 through at least 28 February, 2021, by and through Infinity Q Capital
Allianz SE is to take a charge of EUR3.7 billion to cover the collapse in 2020 of its Florida-based hedge funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
