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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched an enhanced DTCC CDS Kinetics platform to support growing demand for more transparency into the credit default swaps (CDS) market within the over-the-counter derivatives space.
DTCC CDS Kinetics provides position data on credit default swaps sourced from DTCC’s Trade Information Warehouse (TIW), offering notional outstanding, net notional, and trading volume metrics on securities including single-name, index, and index tranche. TIW is a centralised infrastructure for reporting and asset servicing on approximately 98 per cent of all credit derivative transactions outstanding worldwide.
Recognising that credit default swaps are a critical data
Copper.co, a provider of digital asset custody and trading solutions, is expanding its operation in the Americas with the senior appointment of Glenn Barber as Head of Sales & Business Development, and the opening of a new East Coast office.
The London-headquartered startup, founded in 2018, has raised USD84.3 million of funding to date, most recently via a USD75 million Series B, which included a USD25 million extension led by Alan Howard.
Barber joins US-based Business Development Directors Doug Bilyk and Betty Sharples. Together, they will lead the efforts to make Copper the number one choice for US institutions
CoinShares International Limited, a European digital asset investment platform today announced, is to contribute real-time crypto pricing data to the Pyth network, a decentralised financial market data distribution platform for aggregated data.
The Pyth network is built on Solana, a blockchain protocol well-suited for timely and effective receipt and distribution of market data used in high frequency trading operations and environments where trust, accuracy, and speed are critical to performance. CoinShares participated in the Solana token sale in Q2 2021 and is evaluating opportunities to migrate core trading and capital markets infrastructure onto the Solana network. By participating in
AxiaFunder, Europe’s first for-profit litigation funding platform, has secured GBP1.9 milliion from investors since launching in January 2019, with a 100 per cent success rate on completed cases.
Co-founded by investment banker Cormac Leech and entrepreneur Sophie Liu, AxiaFunder has fully funded a total of 13 cases via its platform so far, winning all five that have been concluded with an average investor return of 55 per cent, and as high as 94 per cent.
The other eight cases remain ongoing including a software case in Barcelona, AxiaFunder’s first international case. Two further litigation investment opportunities have recently been added
Voting is now underway for the Hedgeweek Americas Awards 2021, which will be announced and celebrated at an exclusive awards presentation ceremony and industry networking event to be held on Thursday, 21 October at The University Club of New York.
The Hedgeweek Americas Awards – hosted by Hedgeweek, with fund manager data being provided in partnership with Bloomberg – recognise and honour excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers in the Americas.
The hedge fund categories cover a wide range of investment strategies – including Equity, Credit, Macro, CTA, Event-Driven, Specialist Sector, Relative Value, Insurance-Linked Strategies, Structured Credit and
Stockholm-based Brummer & Partners’ flagship multi-strategy hedge fund vehicle remains flat for the year after ending July close to zero, with its equities-focused strategies suffering negative performance last month.
Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS) fell 0.1 per cent in July in both its SEK and dollar-denominated classes, with the twice-levered BMS 2xL version down 0.3 per cent in both classes.
Overall, the BMS vehicle remains flat year-to-date at 0.2 per cent, with the twice-levered strategy returning 0.0 per cent in the seven month-period since the start of January, having ended the first half of 2021 in broadly similar territory, the Swedish fund
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is expanding its presence in India with the launch of a new connection to the India International Exchange (INX) located at the International Finance Services Centre, Gujarat International Finance-Tec City (GIFT City) Gandhinagar.
This new connection delivers low latency access to India INX for both market data and order routing services.
India INX had an average daily turnover of USD 11.67 bn in May 2021 with a market share of 98.15 per cent in GIFT IFSC. The all-time high turnover of India INX has been USD30.3 billion on 10 March, 2021. A subsidiary of BSE,
Akin Gump has appointed Terence Rozier-Byrd as a partner in its investment management practice in New York. Rozier-Byrd comes to Akin Gump from Baker Botts, where he served as partner in charge of its New York office.
Rozier-Byrd advises a wide array of institutional investors in connection with their investments in private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, credit funds, real estate funds, energy funds and hybrid funds, as well as in the negotiation of separately managed account arrangements, co-investments, direct venture capital and growth equity investments and secondary transactions. His practice also includes representing fund sponsors regarding the
Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto index fund manager with over USD1.0 billion in AUM, has launched the Bitwise Uniswap (UNI) Fund and the Bitwise Aave (AAVE) Fund.
These two new strategies join the Bitwise DeFi Crypto Index Fund in simplifying access to the emerging decentralised finance (DeFi) space for professional investors.
“There is growing demand from financial advisors, hedge funds, institutions, and other professional investors for exposure to the fast-growing DeFi markets,” says Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise. “Uniswap and Aave are the two largest DeFi protocols in our DeFi index, and are the largest decentralised exchange and decentralised lending
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is set to start the admission process for the sell-off of nEHS certificates within the national Emissions Trading Scheme (“nEHS”) in coordination with the German Federal Environment Agency.
The instrument will set a CO2 price for the heat and transport sectors at a national level for the first time with sales via EEX to be launched in October 2021.
All CO2-causing fuels, especially petrol, diesel, heating oil, liquid gas, natural gas and from 2023 onwards coal, are included in the nEHS. Those companies and organisations which place fuels on the market, for example natural gas
