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Premialab has appointed Jens Janke, former Head of Risk at hedge funds RAM and EIS, as its new Head of Data & Risk Solutions. In his new role, Janke will lead the development of what Premialab says is a key market segment for the business.
TOP STORY: The SEC has suffered a major setback in its bid to increase oversight of the hedge fund industry after a US appeals court threw out a new rule requiring managers to provide investors with quarterly disclosures of their fees and expenses.
Arbelos, a principal trading firm focusing on cryptocurrency derivatives markets, and B2C2, a specialist in institutional liquidity for digital assets, have completed the first bilateral option transaction on a bitcoin volatility index, the BVIV Index.
Citadel, Ken Griffin’s $63bn Miami-based hedge fund firm, which, according to LCH Investments, is the most profitable hedge fund of all time, lost money in May, with its flagship Wellington fund down 0.8%, according to a report by Business Insider.
Digital assets prime brokerage GCEX has appointed Jonathan Brewer as Chief Revenue Officer in a move aimed at driving growth from institutional and professional clients across all several markets including the UK, Denmark and the UAE.
Post-trade market infrastructure specialist DTCC is expecting daily Treasury volumes through its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation to rise by over $4tn once the SEC’s expanded US Treasury clearing rules take effect.
Millennium portfolio manager Alexander Altmann has left the multi-strategy hedge fund major to head up a new strategy role within Barclays’ equities trading desk in New York as Head of Equities Tactical Strategies, according to a report by Financial News.
Activist hedge fund firm Elliott Investment Management is pushing SoftBank Group to launch a $15bn share buyback programme after rebuilding a stake in the Japanese technology investor worth more than $2bn, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Dymon Asia Capital, the Asia-focused hedge fund firm founded by Danny Yong and Keith Tan in 2008, is expanding its Hong Kong office bucking a local trend that has seen many international financial firms reduce their floorspace in the city.
Balyasny has lost the services of two senior engineers, with Connecticut-based Mark Franklin, who focuses on execution technology, joining Steve Cohen’s Point72, and London-based macro quant researcher Luke Pebody moving to Jane Street.

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