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Crypto arbitrage hedge fund Argentium has added Philippe G Damas to its advisory board.
Damas is currently the Executive Chairman of TMB Thanachart Bank, Bangkok and also Chair of the Nomination, Remuneration & Compliance Committee, having served on their Board since December 2007. He previously held the positions of CEO of ING Retail Banking Asia and CEO ING Private Banking Worldwide, based out of Singapore. Prior to that, he was CEO of ING Barings in London and the Vice Chairman of ING Investment Management in Amsterdam.
Earlier in his career, Damas was a Managing Director at JPMorgan in New York,
As bitcoin surged towards a two-month high on Monday (26 July), digital assets-focused investment manager Wave Financial is bullish on the cryptocurrency’s future prospects amid the ongoing institutionalisation of the sector.
INX Limited (INX), the owner of blockchain-based platforms for trading digital securities and cryptocurrencies, is to list the INX Token, which was previously offered in the world’s first public offering of a digital security registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on the INX Securities trading platform at securities.inx.co on 28 July at 9:00am EDT.
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Baton Systems (Baton), a market solution transforming asset movements and settlements, has became a signatory to the updated FX Global Code, underscoring its commitment and support to firms keen to eliminate settlement risk by enabling real time, payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement for all market participants.
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Digital asset investment products saw outflows for the third consecutive week with outflows totalling USD28 million according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Bitcoin saw the majority of the outflows which totalled USD24 million, the largest outflows since mid-June.
Multi-asset investment products continue to buck the trend with another week of inflows totaling USD3.1 million.
Investment products trading turnover remains low at USD1.7 billion for last week, this represents just 22 per cent of the high in volumes seen in May.
BlueBay Asset Management has expanded its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment team with the addition of Emma Whiteacre as a Senior ESG Analyst, and Elena Koycheva as ESG Institutional Portfolio Manager.
CREAM Finance, a decentralised lending protocol, will be the first protocol in the decentralised finance (DeFi) space to offer a euro-backed stablecoin with the addition of tether tokens pegged to the euro (EURt).
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Glue42 has released new functionality to help firms bring an optimal trading experience and efficient operation in days versus weeks. The new release, Glue42 Enterprise 3.12, focuses less on individual applications and extends the workspace concept with an enterprise store that allows users to search for business solutions with best outcomes.
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Praesidium Investment Management has hired Amy Lockridge as part of its Business Development and Investor Relations teams, effective 19 July.
Lockridge will help lead the business development and investor relations efforts for the firm, which focuses on concentrated equity investments in small and mid-cap companies with an owner oriented, private equity approach to public market investing. She reports to Dan McHale on Praesidium’s business development team, who joined in January 2021 from Morgan Stanley.
Previously, Lockridge was a Vice President at Citigroup on its Capital Introduction team where she facilitated interaction between hedge funds and institutional investors and assisted
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