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Cyprus-regulated digital assets hedge fund ARK36 is appointing Loukas Lagoudis as Executive Director and Socrates Minas as Investor Relations Manager to bolster its Cyprus investment team.
Lagoudis will focus on expanding the firm’s traditional and cryptocurrency investment offerings, while Minas will help prospective investors and existing clients to make informed investment decisions. In addition, Socrates Minas will be responsible for the firm’s onboarding process.
Lagoudis and Minas will work directly with ARK36 Executive Director Ulrik K Lykke in Larnaca, Cyprus, to bridge the gap between traditional portfolio management and digital asset management, including cryptocurrencies. The new team members bring
Symbridge, a digital asset exchange purpose-built to meet the needs of institutional and accredited investors, has appointed risk and compliance veteran Joshua Oliver as Chief Compliance Officer.
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Macrobond, a provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, has onboarded an additional 32 customers globally in Q2 2021, including economic consultancies, corporates, asset managers and large pension funds – the most significant growth for any quarter since the company was founded in 2008.
BSO, an infrastructure and connectivity provider, has upgraded its main routes between Shanghai and key financial hubs in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The upgrade delivers the fastest connectivity to Shanghai equities and futures markets of any provider and bolsters BSO’s position as the reputed market leader in low-latency connectivity.
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has set a new all time record in Dry Freight, achieving a 42 per cent uplift in volume for the first half of 2021.
In the period January to June 2021, a total volume of 598,300 lots were traded (H1 2020: 422,244 lots) which is the highest volume ever recorded in a 6 month period, since launching the business in 2016.
The new H1 record follows an 18 month period of sustained organic growth for EEX’ Dry Freight business, which has seen the exchange also gain the majority share of Open Interest in the combined
This Hedgeweek special report, produced in conjunction with Enfusion, examines why asset managers are making the switch to cloud-based technology solutions – and what the key considerations are they need to think about before, during and after they move to the cloud.
Systematic hedge fund and CTA pioneer Aspect Capital has unveiled a new daily-liquid UCITS-compliant version of its Aspect Core Diversified Programme, a medium-term quantitative trend-following strategy, to capitalise on growing demand for uncorrelated returns amid rising market uncertainty.
Originally launched in 2014, the computer-driven strategy – which today has some USD1.5 billion in assets – looks to generate alpha by zeroing in on a range of medium-term trend opportunities across more than 100 liquid financial and commodity markets.
The new UCITS version rolls out with more than USD40 million of external capital, and has a target volatility of 12 per
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp is to launch trading of tether tokens pegged to the euro (EURt), the first euro-pegged stablecoin, providing a liquid and stable means of obtaining exposure to the single European currency.
EURt will enable Bitstamp customers to deposit euro (EUR) and swap, transfer or trade it to a stablecoin, while retaining the same value and without losing funds on Forex volatility.
Users will be able to trade in their own fiat currency and no longer be required to use another stablecoin as an intermediary before making a deposit, saving them both time and money in the process. Bitstamp
A new quantitative trading client, Dark Forest Technologies, is now live on FlexTrade Systems’ OEMS platform – FlexONE.
Dark Forest, a systematic hedge fund, will utilise FlexONE’s scalable, high-performance capabilities to seamlessly consolidate all quantitative and systematic trading capabilities onto one platform and leverage FlexTrade’s related suite of fully integrated real-time trading API’s to automate the intake and throughput of orders in their pursuit of alpha-driven best execution strategies.
Michael DeAddio, Chief Operating Officer at Dark Forest Technologies, says: “FlexONE simplifies the coding and back-end efforts needed to support our high volume, international, multi prime broker business. We can now
Australian investors show increased appetite for hedge funds
Australian investors show increased appetite for hedge funds