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Co-founded by former Lynx Asset Management portfolio manager Martin Sandquist, Stockholm-based investment management firm Antiloop brings together discretionary and quantitative trading in a multi-strategy fund that spans commodities, equities, global macro and emerging markets.
Alameda Research (Alameda), a global cryptocurrency quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider, has appointed Caroline Ellison and Sam Trabucco as co-CEOs.
As co-CEOs, Ellison and Trabucco together will oversee all operations at Alameda while also collaborating to execute on the strategy the organisation. The pair will focus on managing the trading desk as well as overseeing both internal and back-office operations. They will also look to expand the Company’s capabilities through the continued development of best-in-class technology and within the traditional finance sector through potential business development.
Ellison joined Alameda as a trader in March of 2018. Prior to
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD226 million, bringing the current eight-week run of inflows to USD638 million, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
Bitcoin saw inflows totalling USD225 million, comprising a significant majority of the total. CoinShares believes the turnaround in sentiment towards bitcoin is due to constructive statements from SEC chair Gary Gensler, potentially allowing a bitcoin ETF in the US.
Ether saw minor outflows totalling USD14 million and continues to lose market share to bitcoin, having fallen 1 per cent to 24 per cent of AuM over the last week
Exabel, a data and analytics platform for investment teams, is partnering with LinkUp to deliver a new insights platform for LinkUp’s investment clients.
The LinkUp Data Insights Platform will give portfolio managers additional insights based on LinkUp’s job listings data. The platform delivers user-friendly dashboards, visualisations and KPI monitoring capabilities. This assists investors in idea generation by spotting trend shifts in LinkUp’s jobs data.
Partnering with Exabel gives alternative data vendors an extra presentation and monitoring layer that investors value, utilising Exabel’s unique Al analytics, financial modelling and data science platform. The LinkUp Data Insights Platform forms part of
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has announced that the community leveraging DTCC’s Central Trade Manager (CTM) service for US domestic trade matching has grown to over 1,800 firms, as organisations further consolidate global post-trade flows on a single platform.
With this adoption, 99 per cent of US trade flow volumes on the legacy DTCC OASYS service have migrated or are in the process of migrating to CTM.
CTM, DTCC’s platform for the central matching of cross-border and domestic transactions, automates the trade confirmation process across multiple
Lendable, an emerging market fintech credit provider, is targeting a ground-breaking USD100 million closed-ended fund focused on emerging and frontier market fintech investments.
Launched in Nairobi in 2015 by Daniel Goldfarb and Dylan Fried, Lendable’s goal is to get 100 million people access to crucial financial services. This will unlock consistent access to food, clean water, electricity, shelter, education and income.
Today, there are approximately 1.7 billion without access to financial markets.
The Lendable MSME Fintech Credit Fund (the Fund) is designed to unlock access to financial services for over 150,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s), providing investors with
The development of molnupiravir, a “potent” oral anti-viral Covid-19 treatment, could help boost flagging consumer stocks reliant on the global economic reopening, as healthcare-focused hedge funds look to rebound following recent losses.
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS), a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation UMBF), has launched an automated optical character recognition (OCR) processing programme.
The technology enables faster, more accurate processing of handwritten subscription and tender documents by replacing manual reviews with OCR software and bot technology, turning what previously amounted to hundreds of hours of manual processing into a 24-hour automated service.
The programme creates a standard process for all client documents, whether received in paper, email, fax or data files, allowing UMBFS to handle high volume, short period spikes for tenders or product closings – a critical solution that has historically
Parameta Solutions, the flagship brand of TP ICAP’s Data & Analytics division, has launched a global post-trade analytics platform, Trading Analytics.
The new offering meets increasing demand for trading cost analysis and best execution in bonds enabling both sell and buy-side firms to monitor, measure, document, and improve achieved execution prices. The platform currently covers corporate, agency, government, and supranational bonds, with plans to expand into further asset classes in the future.
The new Trading Analytics platform enables trading desks, compliance officers and portfolio managers to upload their historic transaction data to a web portal, and then, using ThoughtSpot’s intuitive
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord (Philip) Hammond of Runnymede, has joined Copper.co, a London-based provider of digital asset custody and trading infrastructure, as a Senior Adviser. He takes up this role with immediate effect.
Hammond will provide strategic advice to the Copper team as the company expands globally. Copper announced the launch of its US East Coast office in August 2021 with plans to launch in Asia already underway. Significant global growth follows the completion of an extended USD75 million funding round in June 2021, led by investor Alan Howard, and venture capital firms Dawn Capital and Target
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