Brevan Howard has appointed Owen Coughlan, the former head of euro swaps trading at NatWest Markets, as a portfolio manager based in London, according to a report by eFinancial Careers. 

Research by consultants at Oliver Wyman has highlighted that market volatility driven by Russia's war in Ukraine fuelled gross margins at commodity traders to about $115 billion last year, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Coinbase has acquired One River Digital Asset Management, a digital asset manager and SEC-registered investment adviser, from One River Asset Management, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Bridgewater Associates has appointed Christopher Palazzolo as head of Europe and global sustainable investment partnerships, according to a report by Pensions & Investment Online. Palazzolo reportedly joined the $138 billion hedge fund firm at the end of last month.

A London-based macro sales team at Goldman Sachs led by Nohshad Shah, Goldman's co-head of EMEA interest rates sales, and managing director Ishaan Sethi, has jumped ship to join a hedge fund just weeks after bonuses were paid, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.

The Managed Funds Association, a trade body for the hedge fund industry, has written a letter to the UK's HM Treasury suggesting that the requirement for hedge funds to publicly disclose their short positions should be ditched in favour of regulator-only notifications, according to a report by Reuters.

Dan Loeb, the founder of activist hedge fund Third Point Management, has acquired a passive stake in multinational semiconductor manufacturer AMD, according to a report by CNBC.

Gramercy Funds Management, a $5 billion investment manager focused on emerging markets, has appointed Tom Humphrey to the newly created role of President. Bill Foley will also be joining the firm as a managing director and senior member of the Gramercy Business Development Team.

Bybit, the world’s third most visited crypto exchange, has partnered with Talos, an institutional digital asset trading technology specialist, to provide 'streamlined' access to institutions looking to get into the crypto space via the Talos platform.

McKay Brothers has deployed the lowest latency private bandwidth from Aurora, Illinois to Toronto. McKay’s newest route connects the futures markets at the CME with the cash equity markets of TMX in Toronto in less than 4.3 milliseconds one way.