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Facteus, a provider of actionable insights from financial transaction data, and 1010data, a provider of analytical intelligence, enterprise analytics and collaboration capabilities to the retail, consumer brands, and capital markets sectors, have formed a strategic partnership, enabling the companies to provide enhanced data and analytics to clients within the investment services, retail and consumer brands industries.
As part of the agreement, Facteus will acquire 1010data’s Equity Intelligence business, strengthening Facteus’ position in delivering unique transaction data insights and analysis to the investment services industry. 1010data will gain access to Facteus’ US Consumer Payments data panels to explore enhancing the company’s
90 West, a provider of a unique consumer transactions dataset covering the entire United States market, with a particular concentration on the midwest region, has formed a partnership with Exabel which will result in the creation of a new insights platform for 90 West’s investment clients.
The 90 West Insights Platform will give portfolio managers and hedge funds additional insights based on 90 West’s unique panel of consumer transaction data, which track the pricing and performance trends across a broad range of companies. The platform delivers user-friendly dashboards, visualisations and KPI monitoring capabilities. This assists investors in idea generation by
Macro hedge fund firm Rokos Capital Management made more than GBP900 million in profits during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the Financial Times.
The firm generated returns of 44 per cent in 2020 – its best annual performance to date – generating GBP914 million in profit in the 12 months to 31 March, 2021.
According to a filing with Companies House, the income is available to be divided up among the hedge fund’s partners with manager Chris Rokos, formerly a co-founder of Brevan Howard, eligible for the largest share of the gain, some
FiscalNote, an AI-driven enterprise SaaS company that delivers legal and regulatory data and insights, is to acquire Aicel Technologies (Aicel), a Seoul, Korea-based alternative data company that provides alpha-capturing dataset solutions and extracts value and actionable insights to drive business solutions for emerging fintech markets around the world.
Aicel processes both proprietary and licensed data, such as trade and export information, patent filings, aggregated consumer and retail transactions, food delivery and home-sharing data, e-Commerce sales information, and ESG metrics on a subscription basis for customers including asset management companies, hedge funds, and investment firms.
Aicel leverages advanced technology to collect,
In the high-octane world of cryptocurrency, there are a few hard and fast rules. Markets are volatile, regulatory guardrails remain embryonic, and new digital coins are being minted and launched virtually every day.
Options Technology, a capital markets services provider, backed by Abry Partners, has achieved VMware Cloud Verified status in its East Coast NY5 data centre.
The accomplishment follows the VMware Cloud Provider Principal Partner Status awarded to the firm for their London facility earlier this year.
The Cloud Verified designation indicates that a provider offers a complete VMware-based, software-defined data centre infrastructure delivered as a service. VMware Cloud Verified partner services enable customers to achieve unmatched levels of consistency, performance, and interoperability for traditional and containerised enterprise applications with the confidence that the service received is based on the most advanced
Cboe Global Markets, a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, is tolaunch futures on the AMERIBOR (American Interbank Offered Rate) Term-90 interest rate benchmark. The new futures are expected to begin trading on Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) on business date Monday, 24 January, 2022.
AMERIBOR, disseminated by the American Financial Exchange, LLC (AFX), is a transparent, transactions-based interest rate benchmark that represents market-based borrowing costs. The AMERIBOR Term-90 benchmark is specifically designed to capture wholesale funding costs for American financial institutions over a ninety-day period at a specific moment in time.
The planned AMERIBOR Term-90 futures
Berlin-based Swarm Markets, a regulated decentralised financial infrastructure provider, is to launch a peer-to-peer contract for high value transactions in Q1 2022.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is to acquire 100 per cent of energy analytics company Lacima Group.
Lacima, headquartered in Sydney, Australia, is a provider of technology solutions for trading and risk management in the global energy and commodities markets. Lacima’s risk analytics software manages valuation, optimization and risk management. Their trading analytics solution provides tools for pre-trade analyses, structuring and valuation, which further supports trading decisions for their customers.
EEX’s acquisition of Lacima Group will be a seamless process for all Lacima clients whose relationship with the company will remain unchanged. Lacima will continue to operate as an entity
Digital asset investment products saw outflows totalling USD142 million last week, the first outflow following a 17 week run of inflows, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report.
The outflows represent only 0.23 per cent of total assets under management (AuM), and from an historical perspective are small relative to the outflows in early 2018 where weekly outflows represented up to 1.6 per cent of AuM.
Other altcoins softened the blow with polana, Polkadot and multi-asset investment products seeing inflows totalling USD6.7 million, USD2.5 million and USD1.5 million respectively.
