Bloomberg and Elwood Technologies has announced a strategic integration enabling investments from clients using Elwood’s market-leading cryptocurrency trading platform to flow directly into Bloomberg AIM, a buy-side order management system (OMS).   Elwood’s crypto native solution, with purpose-built infrastructure, delivering deep liquidity and extensive market data, is the gateway for institutional access to digital assets. The integration combines Elwood’s institutional cryptocurrency trading capabilities with Bloomberg’s data, analytics, and workflow tools, enabling the financial institutions and investment managers on the AIM platform to capture and manage their crypto investments alongside the rest of their portfolio for a unified investment process.  Elwood

Maples and Calder’s Irish Funds & Investment Management team has retained its position as the leading legal adviser to Irish-serviced funds for the ninth consecutive year as ranked by Monterey Insight. This recognition further highlights the Group’s reputation as a market-leading and award winning adviser to the global funds industry. The publication of the ranking follows the firm’s recent appointment of Eimear O’Dwyer and Adam Donoghue as co-Heads of the Irish Funds & Investment Management Group.   Partners in the Maples Group’s Irish Funds & Investment Management team include, Dublin: Caitriona Carty, Stephen Carty, Ian Conlon, Emma Conaty (Head of

MSCI Inc, a provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, has partnered with GeoQuant and ELEVATE to enhance the capability of MSCI’s ESG data ecosystem. MSCI clients will now have access to GeoQuant’s ESG Geopolitical Risk Dataset, which fuses political and computer science to provide daily indicators and two-year predictions on 40-plus governance, social, security, and environmental risks across 127 countries.  Through GeoQuant’s “Human + Machine (AI)” model, large volumes of reputable data, news and social media content are sorted to create intelligent algorithms that are further calibrated by a team of PhD political

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has announced its role in the newly launched S&P GSCI European Power indices which utilise price data from EEX’ flagship European power futures contracts. The new indices are a first of their kind for the power industry and will include German, French, Italian and Spanish power futures prices listed on EEX. As a result, potential investors now have a suite of credible and reliable performance benchmarks which track the price development of the power market, while reflecting the ongoing shift from fossil fuel reliance to a more sustainable energy mix.    ESG considerations have increasingly

Bybit, one of the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchanges, will soon release its USDC perpetual contracts. The new product will allow users to trade using their USDC balance on Bybit’s derivatives exchange. Bybit’s new USDC perpetual contract will first open to whitelisted traders, allowing them to use USDC as collateral and place long or short contracts with up to 100x leverage and no expiration date. Taking bitcoin perpetual as an example, traders will be able to place an order based on the quantity of bitcoin, and calculate the margin, profit, and loss based on USDC. The new contract joins Bybit’s other

Financial technology provider Iress is to expand its backbone infrastructure and QuantFEED platform to the new Euronext colocation site in Bergamo, Italy. Iress is amongst the first market data vendors to take up residence at the new site, as Euronext builds out its new data centre at the location. The agreement with Euronext provides Iress with hosting space and connectivity services which will allow them to continue to offer the lowest possible latency API data solutions to its customers. Iress will host part of its core market data platform from the new site, which will be an additional site supporting

BEQUANT, a digital asset prime brokerage and exchange, has integrated Kraken on its prime brokerage platform, BEQUANT Pro, and added to the growing list of exchanges that BEQUANT offers to its clients. BEQUANT Pro will act as a broker, providing BEQUANT’s clients access to the Kraken exchange. This is in addition to all of Pro’s features including transfer management, cross-margining and leverage and access to another 12 major exchanges, including Binance, FTX, KuCoin, Bitfinex, OKX and BEQUANT Exchange. Kraken is a US-based exchange and bank founded in 2011. It is available in 176 countries and lists 112 cryptocurrencies to trade.

Avelacom, the low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider for global financial markets, has joined the BitMEX Partner Programme for crypto derivatives trading. Avelacom has pioneered low latency access solutions to crypto exchanges via its proprietary fibre network and has built low latency connections between BitMEX and other global markets. These facilitate arbitrage trades and help attract more trading firms to join cryptocurrency markets. BitMEX utilise’s AWS’ data infrastructure in Ireland, accessed by users of the BitMEX platform across the globe. Avelacom owns ultra-low latency routes across multiple global locations as well as direct connections with the AWS

iCapital, a global fintech platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, is leading a consortium to develop a distributed ledger-based solution for the alternative investment ecosystem. The group will champion an industry-wide initiative to drive the next generation in operational efficiency, security, and convenience. The consortium, which includes leading asset managers, wealth managers, and service providers including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, BNY Mellon, Carlyle, KKR, Morgan Stanley, State Street, UBS, and WestCap, will partner with iCapital to make it easier to acquire and service alternative assets.   While Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, BNY Mellon,

Mobilum Technologies (Mobilum), a technology-driven company making digital assets and cryptocurrencies accessible through traditional finance and payment infrastructure, and the first solution provider of Fiat-to-Dex Tokens rails, has signed a strategic services agreement with Crypto.com to provide token liquidity services using Mobilum’s algorithmic trading platform. Mobilum will provide trading research and execution leveraging its algorithmic trading platform to further enhance the exceptional customer experience already provided by Crypto.com. Mobilum will also provide Crypto.com with regular reporting including summaries and statistics of market activity. Mobilum will receive a monthly retainer for the duration of the agreement. Crypto.com has granted Mobilum an