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Exegy Incorporated, a specialist in low-latency solutions for global market data, predictive trading signals, and hardware-acceleration technology, and Vela Trading Systems (Vela), a provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, have merged business operations in an agreement backed by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over USD7.5 billion of capital commitments under management.
Operating as Exegy Incorporated, the combined company creates a new provider of premier data and execution platforms, managed services for electronic trading powered by proprietary hardware-acceleration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and service automation technologies.
“Exegy’s combination with Vela represents an exciting
This year’s hedgeweekLIVE Technology Summit concluded with deep-level discussions of how hedge fund managers running a range of strategies are grappling with the rapid pace of change in data science and how the “explosion” in data volume can be managed more effectively.
RealBlocks, an alternative investments platform that enables global distribution capabilities for fund managers, has appointed Seth Stuart as Head of Alternative Investment Product Solutions.
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Private capital platform iSTOX is rebranding as ADDX as it enters a phase of fast-paced growth. The digital securities exchange will facilitate more issuance deals – at least 20 this year, more than double the number of deals completed in 2020.
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Transcend, a provider of inventory, funding and liquidity management and optimisation solutions, has expanded its solution suite with the launch of CCP Central, a platform to connect and automate margin and collateral management activities across a global network of Central Clearing Counterparties (CCPs).
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The increased frequency of client communications during the pandemic has been a “game-changer” for the hedge fund manager-allocator dynamic, according to speakers on the fundraising and investor relations panel at this year’s hedgeweekLIVE Technology Summit.
This year’s hedgeweekLIVE Technology Summit opened with an in-depth examination of future trends in hedge fund technology, with panellists exploring how managers are ramping up their use of natural language processing, AI and machine learning tools, and improving efficiency as data consumption grows and skillsets evolve.
The session heard how, historically, quantitative hedge fund models were built around market data, structural data and numerical data. But now an “enormous” new field of text data is available to be mined and to potentially find sources of investment decision-making guidance.
“This is a major evolution; a tectonic shift in terms of the
ESG-focused funds have rightly been receiving a lot of attention over the last 12 months or more, as institutional investors continue to analyse the impact their portfolios are having on the planet, and society at large.
DeFi traders on PlasmaSwap can now trade digital assets as if they were using a conventional exchange, setting the precise entry and exit points to buy or sell tokens at their preferred price.
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Pictet Alt Advisors scores with China market rebound, but offers warning on SPACs
Pictet Alt Advisors scores with China market rebound, but offers warning on SPACs