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Managed futures hedge funds have finished the first quarter of the year in positive territory, seizing on upwards trends in equities indices and the US dollar while weathering the recent bond market and commodities upheaval.
Puremarkets has entered into an agreement with State Street’s Currenex to provide the trading infrastructure for Pure Digital, a new wholesale digital currency trading platform.
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SteelEye, the UK-based compliance technology and data analytics firm, has announced plans to bolster its footprint by expanding into North America.
SteelEye, which has seen rapid growth in Europe since launching in 2017, delivers a comprehensive SaaS-based regulatory technology (regtech) platform that allows banks, brokers, and asset managers to simplify their compliance processes across various EU, UK and now US, market regulations.
The SteelEye platform reduces the complexity and cost of financial compliance by providing a range of regulatory tools that support effortless compliance management, allowing compliance teams to improve efficiencies, reporting accuracy and overall transparency, all from one
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide, has released its new IvyDB Signed Volume 2.0 dataset.
The dataset now provides even more data on daily option market order flows and buy/sell pressure, and offers insights on retail trading to help quants, hedge fund managers, and other institutional investors improve trading strategy and research.
OptionMetrics IvyDB Signed Volume 2.0 now offers a full five years of history on buy/sell pressure, starting from January 2016, on over 10,000 underlying stocks and indices and is updated nightly. It tracks daily US options trading volume indicating
While the “fear gauge” that tracks market volatility has remained at elevated levels since the onset of the pandemic, those who allocate alternative investment dollars for large investors are showing no signs of skittishness, according to the Alternative Investment Allocator Survey conducted by leading law firm Seward & Kissel.
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Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, is now available in Spanish, providing greater accessibility for the exchange’s growing base of Spanish speaking customers.
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Talos, an end-to-end technology infrastructure provider that supports the institutional trading of digital assets, has appointed Justin Schmidt as Head of Strategy.
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Interview with Jonathan Planté, Director of Business Development, Innocap…
What have been the key business developments at Innocap over the last 18 months?
An important development we are seeing is that the mandates on our platform are increasingly larger in scale. Over the past 18 months, we continued to gain a lot of ground with public pension funds whose assets under management exceed USD100 billion. We are experiencing steady growth in the average size of allocations per fund. For instance, we onboarded USD1.75 billion into a single fund on behalf of a European financial institution.
On the North American side, we
By Abali Hoilett & Benoit Sansoucy, Maples – Canadian institutional investors have been at the forefront of investing in the alternative investment space, utilising innovative bespoke structures that reduce operational and investment risk and enhance returns. The widespread adoption of managed account platforms (“MAPs”), which create optimal conditions to generate and preserve alpha, while mitigating the risk from investing in commingled structures, has seen the vast majority of Canadian institutional investors engage a managed account platform provider (“MAPP”).
Avenir Technology Limited, a global developer of post-trade Financial Market Infrastructure solutions, has today announced that it is providing the technology for a centralised forwards marketplace for farmers and millers across South Africa.
Working in conjunction with South African agri-tech startup TonnUp, the project leverages Avenir’s wealth of experience in developing commodity trading platforms by formalising a nationwide approach for matching agricultural buyers and sellers.
Brett Riley, COO of TonnUp, comments: “We are developing a comprehensive range of trading services to meet the needs of South Africa’s expanding commercial farming sector, including the grain market which currently produces a crop
