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Mercury Digital Assets (Mercury), a technology provider for digital asset markets, has partnered with DV Chain to further enhance access to diverse pools of OTC crypto liquidity.
Mercury’s clients can now access DV Chain’s institutional-grade liquidity via Mercury’s BEACON OEMS platform or via API.
Clients can place RFQ and limit orders, allowing flexibility in how traders using Mercury’s BEACON platform can incorporate DV Chain’s liquidity into their trading workflows and strategies. OTC brokers and dealers automating their trading desks with BEACON can seamlessly trade with DV Chain as a liquidity provider while delivering bespoke 24/7 pricing and a customised trading
As investor and regulator focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues has gathered pace globally in recent years, attention is turning to how investment managers, hedge funds and private equity firms can build effective ESG programmes that stand up to regulatory scrutiny and help them stay competitive in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
Primus Capital, a growth-oriented private equity firm, has made a minority investment in LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions.
Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
The Wiltshire Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.97 per cent in March, outperforming the –0.06 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.
The Wiltshire Liquid Alternative Index family aims to deliver precise market measures for the performance of diversified liquid alternative investment strategies implemented through mutual fund structures, backed by a proprietary classification methodology.
“Markets experienced a choppy first quarter as the ‘Reddit Rebellion’ and the following mass deleveraging in January preceded a bounce back in equity markets in February,” says Jason Schwarz, President
In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes – Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Twitterisation, and Uberisation – to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in our industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme. Next up: Uberisation…
Pragma, an independent algorithmic trading technology provider that leverages artificial intelligence for equities and foreign exchange trading, has appointed Steve Cooper as its new Chief Technology Officer.
Cooper joins from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was Principal Solutions Architect, and will be based in New York. In his new role, he will be responsible for ensuring Pragma’s technology stack, market infrastructure and connectivity evolves ahead of client demands and the wider marketplace.
He brings over 20 years of capital markets experience. Prior to working at AWS, he led Global Front Office Technology for Liquidnet, where he drove a
GAM is realigning its systematic capabilities as part of its strategy focused on efficiency, transparency, and growth. The focus will be on GAM Systematic Alternative Risk Premia, which was already planned to move onto the new GAM SimCorp platform, and GAM Systematic Core Macro, which will now also move onto the platform.
Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
CSC has gone live on the Fund Recs Velocity Platform for cash, position, and trade reconciliations.
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BMLL, an independent provider of harmonised, historical data and analytics, is to make its Data Lab available to École Polytechnique’s team of quantitative researchers.
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Sovryn, a bitcoin-based decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol, has agreed a USD9 million investment from a consortium of partners, vetted for their strategic contribution and led by Anthony Pompliano’s Pomp Investments, after a proposal was formally accepted by the Sovryn community.
Tuesday 13 April also sees the first day of Sovryn (SOV) trading, exclusively on the Sovryn platform, before it becomes available on other exchanges.
Of the groups that applied to invest, those which were vetted and accepted include representation by leading exchanges such as Cadenza (a BitMEX affiliated venture fund) and AscendEX (BitMax) and Gate.io as well as blockchain
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