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Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD14.4 million last week, breaking the prior five-week run of outflows, according to the latest weekly Digital Asset Fund Flows Report from Coinshares.
A tipping point has been reached where the maturity of and regulatory clarity of the cryptocurrency asset have passed the threshold for institutional investors to make significant allocations.
The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association (PBHFA) has partnered with LONDON2TOKYO, a global private Members’ club, and a specialist in luxury lifestyle living, offering private concierge services and access to global events and experiences.
LONDON2TOKYO, is assists high-net-worth individuals and their families with their day-to-day needs, travel arrangements and special requests. The company has a network. Of global contacts and brand relationships that members can access through a single contact – their lifestyle manager.
FX HedgePool, the matching engine for mid-market execution of FX swaps, has launched a new monthly, mid-month, settlement date-based matching cycle that will anchor to the third Wednesday of each month, creating a more frequent cycle that aligns with the familiar quarterly IMM (International Monetary Market) maturity dates.
The first transactions matched involved FX HedgePool’s newest member, a European Pension Administrator.
The new matching cycle complements FX HedgePool’s already established trade date-based month-end matching event, and will provide a standardised settlement date in the middle of the month. This will enable the buy-side to more readily supply liquidity to each
As investor interest in cryptocurrencies continues to mount, regulators are sharpening their focus on the asset class. Though education remains a key impediment to growth, investment opportunities in new areas, such as decentralised finance, are ripe.
By and large, institutional investors have been hesitant about delving into crypto investments. Though reputable managers like Larry Fink and his ilk have heralded the age of digital assets, adoption remains relatively low.
According to Konstantin Anissimov, executive director, CEX.IO, the answer lies in regulation: “The safety that comes from regulations is beneficial and will ultimately help the industry mature. Having this clarity means institutional
SigTech, a quant technologies provider, has seen multi-fold growth in 2021. Clients with combined AUM of over USD5 trillion in are now using its enterprise SaaS platform in over a dozen countries including mainland China.
BlockFills, a digital asset trading and financial technology company, has closed a USD37 million Series A funding round led by institutional investors, including Susquehanna Private Equity Investments, CME Ventures, Simplex Ventures, C6E, Nexo Inc, and several other institutional investors and funds.
This is the second multimillion-dollar funding round since the company’s founding in 2018. BlockFills has raised a total of USD44 million to date from institutional investors.
The Series A funding round will allow BlockFills to expand and evolve its technology platforms to provide more advanced solutions for the hedge fund and asset management community, a sector in which the
Ocorian, the financial services group and provider of private client, fund, corporate, capital markets and regulatory & compliance services, has been shortlisted as Best Offshore Administrator in the Hedgeweek European Awards.
Ocorian provides bespoke technology-led specialist fund services to private equity, venture capital, real estate, and infrastructure focussed fund managers. It is one of Ocorian’s fastest growing business lines.
The annual Hedgeweek European Awards recognise excellence among fund managers and service providers in Europe across a wide range of categories. The service provider categories span all the key areas of the broader hedge fund industry ecosystem.
Qontigo, a provider of innovative risk, analytics, and index solutions has entered into a partnership with RepRisk, a pioneer and leader in ESG data science, whereby Qontigo will enable solutions and access to RepRisk ESG risk data via Axioma portfolio analytics and risk models, and build indices under its STOXX family of brands.
Modus.Trade, a crypto specialist investor network, has selected Gold-i Ltd to manage its entire technology infrastructure.
This includes providing access to crypto market makers and clearing using the Gold-i Crypto Switch 2.0 and supporting Modus.Trade’s MT5 trading platform.
Modus.Trade is a crypto fund and online learning platform, with a suite of algorithmic trading strategies. Its client base consists predominantly of fund managers, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. The organisation has seen a surge in demand for its products and services in recent months, trading over USD500 million a month in bitcoin.
