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Quantitative hedge fund and CTA pioneer Aspect Capital has unveiled a new systematic momentum-based investment strategy focused on Chinese financial and commodities futures, tapping into the expanding global institutional investor appetite for opportunities there.
The Aspect China Diversified Fund – which launches with more than USD100 million in external capital – uses the London-based firm’s systematic medium-term trend-following models to trade more than 40 onshore Chinese futures markets spanning six asset classes: agriculturals, bonds, energies, industrials, metals and stock indices.
The strategy brings the firm’s expertise in systematic investment to global investors who are keen to tap into the opportunities
MarketFactory, part of ION Markets, a global provider of trading, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, has partnered with Tradefeedr, an independent FX data and analytics provider.
The Tradefeedr data and analytics platform is now fully integrated within MarketFactory, enabling clients to review their trading markouts, impacts, and spreads directly with liquidity providers, using a common platform and shared data sets. Tradefeedr’s data analytics solution will be available as an add-on to new and existing customers using the award-winning MarketFactory service.
Tradefeedr has created a common, truly independent FX trading database allowing market participants across the sell-side, buy-side,
Digital Asset Research (DAR), a provider of crypto asset data and research, has released its October 2021 Crypto Exchange Vetting and Asset Vetting results.
In an environment where cryptocurrencies trade across hundreds of lightly regulated or unregulated exchanges, DAR’s vetting processes meet an industry-wide need for reliable crypto data by applying institutional-level diligence to digital asset markets.
Over 450 exchanges were evaluated to identify 21 Vetted Exchanges: Binance.US; bitbank; Bitfinex; bitFlyer; BITFRONT; Bitso; Bitstamp; Bittrex; CEX.IO, Coinbase; Coincheck; CoinField; Gemini; GMO Coin Co.; itBit; Kraken; Liquid; LMAX; Luno; Okcoin; and Zaif. B2BX and VCC Exchange were removed from the list
Gadze Finance has launched a DeFi focused crypto fund with an initial USD25 million under management, growing to USD100 million over the coming six months.
The new fintech startup launched by Mike Silagadze and Andrew McGrath aims to democratize access to safe crypto investing strategies. Gadze Finance is based and operated in Cayman Islands.
Crypto is a USD2 trillion asset class, and DeFi (decentralised finance) is a rapidly growing USD100 billion segment where quick and efficient smart contracts, rather than central financial intermediaries, power financial transactions. Productive assets that are being built on DeFi that span finance, gaming, and art.
Alternative investment platform CAIS is working with the Milken Institute to provide expanded access by wealth managers to educational content from the 24th annual Milken Institute Global Conference, taking place October 17-20 in Beverly Hills, California.
This year’s Milken Institute Global Conference is centred on the theme “Charting a New Course,” and will examine the disruptions and innovations precipitated by the global pandemic, as well as ensuing social crises and economic hardships, can be reframed for a thriving future.
CAIS Founder and CEO Matt Brown will moderate a private session on “The Future of Wealth Management” at the conference discussing
Law firm of Kirby McInerney partner Randall Fox has been named the 2021 “Lawyer of the Year” by the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund (TAFEF), a public advocacy group for whistleblowers.
TAFEF presented Fox with the prestigious award, citing his successes for whistleblowers and his commitment to expanding opportunities to harness the power of whistleblowers to fight frauds committed against government dollars. The award was presented at TAFEF’s annual conference on 14 October.
TAFEF is a public interest non-profit dedicated to fighting fraud against the government by incentivising integrity. Through public-private partnerships, TAFEF advances the effectiveness of the federal and
FRMO Corp has added Alice C Brennan, Herbert M Chain, and Dov Glickman to its Board of directors.
With the appointment of Brennan, Chain, and Glickman, FRMO Corp now has nine directors, of which six are independent.
“We are very pleased to welcome Alice Brennan, Herb Chain, and Dov Glickman to the Board. We’ve already been beneficiaries of their intellectual capital – which we’ve always intended to be the core FRMO asset – and look forward to their continued contributions,” says Murray Stahl, FRMO Corp.’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “As we continue to focus our attention on expanding and
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform for institutional investors in the bitcoin space, has doubled its server capacity.
Bitfinex has increased the volume of heavy duty servers at its Zug-based data centre amid surging demand to trade digital tokens among hedge funds, institutional investors and family offices. The expansive server capacity provides participants from incumbent markets with a level of service on a par with that provided by major stock exchanges.
The heavy duty computational power available on Bitfinex is enabling funds to translate trading strategies from conventional markets into the digital token space. Funds on Bitfinex are deploying
Piper Sandler Companies is to acquire Cornerstone Macro, an independent research firm that offers macro research and equity derivatives trading to institutional investors.
Upon closing, Cornerstone Macro will continue providing its research as Piper Sandler & Co’s macro research team.
Founded in 2013, Cornerstone Macro brings 50-plus professionals, including 21 research analysts, to Piper Sandler. Cornerstone Macro produces high quality, thought-leading macro, thematic and quantitative research on global economics, fiscal and tax policy, monetary policy and global asset allocation, portfolio strategy, energy and renewables, and technology. In addition, Cornerstone Macro’s options strategy team provides industry-leading derivative strategy and trading. Cornerstone
Options, the provider of managed trading infrastructure to the global Capital Markets, has appointed Marlena Efstratopoulou to Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and the Principal leading the firm’s “Security as a Service” business.
Efstratopoulou joined Options in April 2021 with nearly a decade of industry experience from DXC Technologies, HPE, and Fixnetix. As Chief Information Security Officer with Fixnetix she led them to SOC2 accreditation, alongside developing and coordinating the delivery of their Managed Security Services offering.
As CRO, Efstratopoulou has responsibility for Options’ Security as a Service offering and will be at the forefront of Options’ Managed Security solutions, providing
