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Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD306 million last week, bringing month-to-date inflows to USD787 million and year-to-date inflows to a record USD9.5 billion, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report fro CoinShares.
Bitcoin saw the largest inflows in 5 weeks totalling USD247 million following the launch of another investment product in Europe.
In terms of inflows relative to AuM, Polkadot and Solana continue to be the winners, with inflows representing 8.6 per cent (USD11.5 million) and 5.9 per cent (USD14.6 million) of AuM respectively last week.
CoinShares is now tracking blockchain exchange-traded products, which currently
Quant Insight (Qi), a quantitative financial market analytics and asset insights provider, has partnered with Symphony, a markets’ infrastructure and technology platform, to offer macro-based insights to Symphony’s global financial community.
Qi has built a trade BOT, RETINA (‘Real time Notifications and Alerts) that will sit on the Symphony platform and push succinct macro-based insights into Symphony chat rooms. Real-time push notification will be tailored to each user based on profile and interests. Users can also ping RETINA to request updated charts for any security. A tracking feature will be released in the coming weeks, which will allow users to
Equity capital marketplace Appital has appointed Mike Wharton, a technologist with a background in equity capital markets, as Head of Product.
Wharton will support the delivery of Appital’s vision to bring innovation and automation in equity capital markets, unlocking and uncovering liquidity for investors and enabling them to gain greater exposure to deal flow and execution opportunities.
The appointment follows the latest round of funding which will accelerate the development of Appital’s technology infrastructure, its integration with market-leading financial institutions and technology vendors, and enable the expansion of their engineering team to support the delivery of their strategy. This process
The hard-won, if only tacit recognition of crypto as an asset class, is rippling across the financial industry. Crypto’s new status brings with it the requirement for trading, clearing, settlement and custody of digital assets, and nowhere is this need more pressing than in the hedge fund space.
Portal Asset Management, sponsor of the Portal Digital Fund, a global fund of digital asset hedge funds, has launched the Horizon Index Fund, which is targeted at family offices, sophisticated and institutional investors seeking passive, broad market exposure to the digital currency space.
The Portal Digital Fund, ranked third in the global Multi-Advisor section of the BarclayHedge Alternative Investment Rankings for 2020, was also ranked by Preqin as the No1 Fund of Hedge Funds in Asia Pacific in H1 2021, and has been operating since early 2020.
The Horizon Index Fund (the Fund) is a portal for investors to receive
Long/short equity-focused hedge funds are offloading or short-selling stocks that are most exposed to tighter Covid-19 restrictions, against a backdrop of surging coronavirus infections in Europe and heightening concerns surrounding the new Omicron variant.
With Covid-19 cases rising across Europe – and Germany, Denmark and Austria recently reintroducing tighter restrictions – equities-focused managers in the US and Europe have cut both their net and gross exposures in recent weeks, now converging near their long-term lows, Lyxor Asset Management observed in its latest Cross Asset Research commentary.
Stock markets fell sharply towards the end of last week following the emergence of the
Financial software company NeoXam has strengthened its ties with Refinitiv to provide market participants with greater choice and simplification over their data.
Refinitiv will be providing reference, pricing, ESG, regulatory and tax data sets and more, while NeoXam will be disseminating and providing quality control through its NeoXam DataHub platform. The partnership enables financial institutions to seamlessly connect to key data sources without putting additional strain on IT infrastructure.
Through the NeoXam DataHub, asset managers and other market participants can connect to new data sources in much less time and at less cost compared to legacy data management or
Digital token trading platform Bitfinex has launched a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) gateway, a message routing service using the FIX protocol that enables high-speed connectivity to the exchange, amid a surge in demand for high-speed connectivity among the exchange’s growing user base.
FIX is a language used extensively by institutional customers and trading platforms to communicate trade information. The non-proprietary, free and open standard is constantly being developed to support evolving business and regulatory needs, and is used by thousands of firms every day to complete millions of transactions.
Bitfinex’s launch of a FIX Gateway will enable institutional customers
More than one-in-four hedge fund managers are expecting to increase their exposure to cryptocurrencies in the next one to two years, according to the 2021 EY Global Alternative Fund Survey.
Alter Domus, a provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, is enhancing its European service offering by making substantial investments in its central operations.
The initiative is focused on building additional technology capability, expanding its European footprint, and continuing to recruit exceptional, multilingual talent to support Alter Domus in providing corporate and fund services to investors and managers in private equity, real assets, and debt capital markets.
At the core of its EUR50 million investment is technology. Alter Domus is pursuing an ambitious digital agenda in software development, network and infrastructure, security and systems engineering, and quality
