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. 

Fintech specialist Broadridge Financial Solutions, has appointed Wout Kalis as Head of Asia Pacific for Broadridge Asset Management Solutions. As well as driving growth and product expansion, Kalis will oversee day-to-day operations and provide senior asset management leadership in the region.

Bridgewater Associates is planning to cap the size of its flagship hedge funds, invest more in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and cut up to 100 jobs, as part of a restructuring plan aimed at boosting returns, increasing profitability and developing new sources of revenue, according to a report by Bloomberg.

London-based hedge fund Fasanara Capital has teamed with an investment bank focused on sports-related investments to create a new product that aims to make a profit from the player transfer market, according to a report by Bloomberg.