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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
Tiger Asset Management AG, an investment advisory firm specialising in a fundamental absolute return strategy with a focus on listed equities in the DACH region, has appointed Rico Back, former CEO of Royal Mail Group, as Chairman of the Board with immediate effect.
In his new role, Back will support Tiger Asset Management’s further growth as an institutional investment advisory business in Europe.
Back brings over 30 years’ experience as a businessman and entrepreneur, and is a leading figure in the global parcel industry. He is the former CEO of Royal Mail Group, the British multinational postal service, and attended
MackeyRMS, a provider of SaaS-based research management software, and InsiderScore, a provider of actionable data and analytics on publicly traded companies, have expanded their executive team with the appointment of Andrew Robson as CEO of the combined business.
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HIPS Payment Group, a provider of e-commerce and mobile payment solutions, has launched a new cryptocurrency, Merchant Token (MTO) alongside the company’s Merchant Protocol (HMP) and the Hips Merchant Protocol Gateway (HMP-gateway).
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FX HedgePool, a matching engine for mid-market execution of FX swaps, has made several key hires to support growing demand for passively hedged investment strategies.
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StoneX Group’s Fixed Income Division has bolstered its Treasury Desk and presence in the treasury markets by hiring industry veterans Stefan Dannibale, Eric Drexler, and Matt Rader.
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