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BlockFills, a digital asset trading and financial technology company, has closed a USD37 million Series A funding round led by institutional investors, including Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, CME Ventures, Simplex Ventures, C6E, Nexo Inc, and several other institutional investors and funds.
This is the second multimillion-dollar funding round since the company’s founding in 2018. BlockFills has raised a total of USD44 million to date from institutional investors.
The Series A funding round will allow BlockFills to expand and evolve its technology platforms to provide more advanced solutions for the hedge fund and asset management community, a sector in which the
Ocorian, the financial services group and provider of private client, fund, corporate, capital markets and regulatory & compliance services, has been shortlisted as Best Offshore Administrator in the Hedgeweek European Awards.
Ocorian provides bespoke technology-led specialist fund services to private equity, venture capital, real estate, and infrastructure focussed fund managers. It is one of Ocorian’s fastest growing business lines.
The annual Hedgeweek European Awards recognise excellence among fund managers and service providers in Europe across a wide range of categories. The service provider categories span all the key areas of the broader hedge fund industry ecosystem.
Qontigo, a provider of innovative risk, analytics, and index solutions has entered into a partnership with RepRisk, a pioneer and leader in ESG data science, whereby Qontigo will enable solutions and access to RepRisk ESG risk data via Axioma portfolio analytics and risk models, and build indices under its STOXX family of brands.
Modus.Trade, a crypto specialist investor network, has selected Gold-i Ltd to manage its entire technology infrastructure.
This includes providing access to crypto market makers and clearing using the Gold-i Crypto Switch 2.0 and supporting Modus.Trade’s MT5 trading platform.
Modus.Trade is a crypto fund and online learning platform, with a suite of algorithmic trading strategies. Its client base consists predominantly of fund managers, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. The organisation has seen a surge in demand for its products and services in recent months, trading over USD500 million a month in bitcoin.
Investors are ‘extraordinarily complacent’ about the macro risks currently facing emerging markets, but idiosyncratic investment opportunities still abound, says Andrew Swan, manager of the Man GLG Asia (ex Japan) Equity strategy.
Swan, whose strategy launched in October 2020, says investors are failing to grasp the potential for falls across emerging markets in an environment where growth is slowing and central banks in developed economies are beginning tightening cycles amid surging inflation.
Swan says investment opportunities can still be found in those parts of EMs beginning to recover from Covid disruption, like Southeast Asia and India. But he says opportunities
London-based investment firm, Twenty20 Capital, has joined forces with MP Alpha Capital — making a cornerstone investment into the firm’s “post-Covid” hedge fund.
Graubündner Kantonalbank (GKB) agreed to acquire a stake of around 30 percent in the independent investment manager Twelve Capital Holding AG (Twelve Capital), which specialises in investments in the insurance sector and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
Subject to the approval of the competent authorities, the transaction is expected to close in Q2 2022.
A representative of GKB will serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Twelve Capital.
RWC Partners has changed its operating brand to ‘Redwheel’, marking the next stage of its development as a specialist, independent investment organisation.
The rebrand is part of a full update of the firm’s visual identity, including the launch of a new website.
The business was established in 2000 with the ambition to create an environment in which exceptional fund managers can operate with a high degree of investment autonomy and maximise the benefits of their skills to deliver the best possible long-term outcomes for clients. Today, Redwheel has more than 150 people aligned to that goal, including 56 dedicated
The Southeastern Alternative Funds Association (SEAFA) and the MidSouth Alternative Investment Association (MSAIA) have joined the Managed Fund Association’s (MFA) Partnership Program. The Partnership Program currently features members from Canada, New York, Connecticut, Texas, Florida, and California.
The MidSouth Alternative Investment Association (MSAIA) is an education and networking organisation that connects alternative investment professionals, raising the quality of discussion and deliberation in the region, through informal gatherings, panel discussions and fundraising for worthwhile local charities. The MSAIA has been active in Nashville since March 2008 and has grown to over 700 members.
The Southeastern Alternative Funds Association (SEAFA) is
DIGITEC, a specialist in FX Swaps and NDF pricing and data, has appointed Peer Joost as CEO. Previously Joost was COO at DIGITEC, where he has worked since October 2011.
DIGITEC as over 40 bank clients globally, including more than 50 per cent of the Euromoney Top 50 FX trading firms. The firm’s market-leading services include the D3 multi-asset pricing engine and Swaps Data Feed (SDF), developed in partnership with 360T.
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