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Digital asset investment products saw inflows of USD90 million last week, marking the seventh consecutive week of inflows totalling USD411 million, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report.
Bitcoin saw inflows of USD69 million last week. We believe this decisive turnaround in sentiment is due to growing confidence in the asset class amongst investors.
Ether saw another week of inflows totalling USD20 million although it has conceded market share to Bitcoin in recent weeks, having fallen from a peak of 28 per cent to 25 per cent.
Despite improving inflows across investment products, volumes remain low
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has introduced its gas contracts on Trading Hub Europe (THE), the new nationwide German gas market area. A total of 5.5 TWh were traded the first day in both Spot and Futures markets.
The two gas market areas GASPOOL (GPL) and NetConnect Germany (NCG) merged into the new all-German market area Trading Hub Europe (THE) on 1 October 2021. EEX now offers both Financial Gas Futures (EGSI Futures) and Physical Gas Futures for the new THE market area. On the THE spot market, trading participants will additionally be able to trade 13 new zonal gas
Stamford Associates, a relatively small and selective London-based investment advisor, has occupied an influential niche in the UK’s investment space for over 30 years. This influence is not necessarily a result of its ability to predict investment trends, nor a taste for the esoteric.
Bitfinex Derivatives a derivatives platform accessible through Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has launched perpetual contracts for Aave (AAVEF0:USTF0), Fantom (FTMF0:USTF0), Elrond (EGLDF0:USTF0) and Polygon (MATICF0:USTF0).
AAVEF0:USTF0, FTMF0:USTF0, EGLDF0:USTF0 and MATICF0:USTF0 will go live on 30/09/21 at 12:00 PM CET. The contracts offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in Tether tokens (USDt).
“We’re delighted to announce the addition of Aave, Fantom, Elrond and Polygon to the growing portfolio of perpetual swaps available to trade on the exchange,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “We anticipate great interest in these products, particularly among funds
Hedge funds’ confidence continues to rise, with managers across the UK, Europe and Asia all bullish on their business prospects heading into the final quarter of the year, a key industry sentiment index shows.
Trading signals provider Signal Centre has launched Signal Stream a new platform to better support traders through the ‘noise paralysis’ of inaccurate and confused signal reporting.
As an FCA approved and regulated firm, Signal Centre, which applies technical analysis to a range of indices, currencies and commodities to empower brokers to access high quality, rich data signal insights, overhauled its platform to maximise the trader’s user experience and also their engagement.
Signal Centre believes it is demonstrating best practice within the industry. In the most recent feedback from Signal Centre clients over 80 per cent of traders preferred to engage
Integral, a technology company in the foreign exchange market, has reported average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms of USD44.9 billion in September 2021.
This represents an increase of +1.6 per cent compared to August 2021 and an increase of +9.5 per cent compared to the same period in 2020.
Reported ADV represents volumes traded across the group’s entire liquidity network, including TrueFXTM and Integral OCXTM, in aggregate.
Integral’s global trading network has been designed to meet the execution needs of the widest variety of FX market participants, including banks, brokers, asset managers, and hedge funds. Our clients leverage the
QuantHouse, a provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data feeds and infrastructure services, and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), has announced senior leadership changes as the next step in its full integration into Iress.
As part of this transition, Pierre Feligioni, CEO and Co-Founder, is departing QuantHouse to pursue new ventures. QuantHouse wishes him the best in his future endeavours and thanks him for his leadership. Arthur Tricoire becomes General Manager, Commercial, and Sebastien Tiphine moves to Head of Products.
These changes position the firm to continue to execute on behalf of over 500 global clients through closer alignment
If any jurisdiction can claim to be the home of the global fund industry, it is Luxembourg. The Grand Duchy is the second largest investment fund centre worldwide and the first in Europe, with an 8.8 per cent global market share in 2020 and is a prime location for alternative investment funds.
Yves Cheret, managing director of fund administration in CSC’s Luxembourg office comments: “I think that, over time, the investment fund business in Luxembourg will become known as the US is known.”
Luxembourg’s attraction for fund managers is based on its political, financial, and political stability which fosters a
Visitors to Luxembourg are often surprised and pleased to discover that public transport is free. Step onto a tram in Luxembourg city, and there is no conductor to pay, and no machine to stamp tickets.
In a drive to tackle traffic congestion and emissions, last year the Grand Duchy introduced a new policy where no charge exists for using the trains, trams and buses that criss-cross the small country sandwiched between Germany, France and Belgium.
The policy is an attractive perk for its 602,000 residents, 175,000 cross-border workers and 1.2 million annual tourists.
It’s also emblematic of something else: Luxembourg’s
