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A number of  high-profile hedge fund and private equity firms are discussing ways to deal with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s crackdown on the financial industry’s use of disappearing messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Digital asset investment products saw record weekly inflows totalling $2.9bn last week, beating the prior week’s all-time record of $2.7bn, according to the latest Digital Assets Weekly Fund Flows report from CoinShares.
Hedge funds have increased their investments in financial stocks in North America, Europe and Asian emerging markets, at a time when European and US banking indices are soaring, according to a report by Reuters citing a note from the Goldman Sachs Group’s prime brokerage desk. 
Freddie Sizer, who led European physical gas trading at Freepoint Commodities, has left the commodities trading company to set up his own hedge fund firm focused on gas and power investments, according to a report by Bloomberg. 
Walleye Capital, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm led by Chief Investment Officer Will England, is parting company with around 12 employees, including Raj Sethi, Head of Discretionary and Macro Fixed Income, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Ex-Citadel, Lone Pine Capital, Oaktree Capital and Paloma Partners PMs are among the hedge fund execs gearing up to launch a bumper crop of high-profile hedge funds this year, according to a report by Reuters.
Yuriy Podoshev, a former Goldman Sachs MD who left the bank to join hedge fund giant Bridgewater Associates as an Engineering Director in late 2022, is returning to his former employer, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
DTCC, a post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has appointed Sharon Biran as a Managing Director and Chief Client Officer as of 25 March, succeeding Timothy Keady, who is set to leave the firm at the end of the month.
The National Association of Private Fund Managers, Managed Funds Association and the Alternative Investment Management Association have sued the US Securities and Exchange Commission over a new rule increasing scrutiny on the $27tn Treasury market.
Andrew Hohns, the boss of Philadelphia-based hedge fund firm Newmarket Capital, is pitching a new type of securitisation he says would allow banks to reduce the carbon footprint of their balance sheets, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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