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VSP – the token powering the Vesper ecosystem – is now available to trade on cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex Global.
Vesper offers a suite of easy-to-use, yield-generating products that combine DeFi’s innovation and promise with the professionalism required to advance the sector. As Vesper’s core economic engine, VSP incentivises community participation and facilitates governance.
“Vesper’s listing on Bittrex Global provides an additional onramp for VSP and users interested in a platform that’s creating a shared surface area between DeFi and TradFi,” says Jordan Kruger, co-founder of Vesper Finance. “The Vesper community’s goal is to create a world where professionalized DeFi options
Genesis Global Capital has executed the first ever OTC block trade of a BTIC (Basis Trade at Index Close) transaction on CME Bitcoin futures with Akuna Capital, an options market maker specialising in derivatives market-making and sophisticated modelling.
A commonly used equities product, BTIC has now been made available for cryptocurrencies for the first time. The execution of this trade demonstrates new ways traditional finance participants and markets are adapting to meet the demand for crypto products and services.
“BTIC fills a hedging need for our counterparties who are benchmarked to the Bitcoin Reference Rate and we are proud to
As hedge funds continue to ride out cryptocurrencies’ volatility, new industry research suggests larger institutional investors remain reluctant to pile into digital assets in any meaningful sense, despite the strong returns generated by managers this year.
tZERO, a specialist in liquidity for digital assets, announced has added support for bitcoin cash (BCH), stellar lumen (XLM), cardano (ADA), compound (COMP), and uniswap (UNI) to its cryptocurrency trading platform, on 4 October, 2021, expanding its offering to a total of 15 coins.
Launched in June 2019, the tZERO Crypto App allows investors to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), litecoin (LTC), chainlink (LINK), dogecoin (DOGE), USD coin (USDC), 0x (ZRX), bitcoin SV (BSV), Basic Attention Token (BAT), and Ravencoin (RVN).
tZERO Interim CEO and Chief Legal Officer Alan Konevsky says, “Our critical priority is to increase
New paper describes how quantum machine learning algorithms have IonQ, a specialist in quantum computing, has released a new paper in collaboration with Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) demonstrating how its quantum computers can outperform classical computers to generate high-quality data for use in testing financial models.
Financial institutions commonly use models for asset allocation, electronic trading, and pricing, and require testing data to validate the accuracy of these models. The new technique, demonstrated by FCAT on IonQ’s latest quantum computers, has the potential to be the first class of quantum machine learning models to be deployed for broad
Bloomberg has launched a new pre-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) model that enables market participants to assess trade cost, daily executable volume, and probability of execution.
The new model provides pre-trade analysis for investment grade and high yield corporate and sovereign bonds across the globe and offers a liquidity tree across various order sizes. In addition to assessing trade costs, clients can analyse daily executable volume and probability of execution to better inform their trading and portfolio construction decisions. Clients can also run scenario analysis by customising their views on the bond spread and rating, which results in different cost,
Cambrian Asset Management (Cambrian ), a quantitative investment firm specialising in digital assets, has launched the Cambrian Bitcoin Systematic Trust and the Cambrian Ethereum Systematic Trust (the Trusts).
The Trusts are the first of their kind and designed for institutional and accredited individual investors with existing or seeking exposure to bitcoin or ether. The Trusts feature an actively managed systematic strategy that looks to manage downside risks and maintain substantial upside potential while seeking to defer taxable events for their investors.
The Trusts will leverage the same systems employed by Cambrian with respect to its other strategies, which trade over
Quant Insight (Qi), a new quantitative financial market analytics and trading insights provider, has announced a major scale up after four years of research and development and over USD10 million in funding from three investment rounds.
The company, which has offices in London, New York and Limassol, has clients with total Assets Under Management (AUM) of over USD2.5 trillion incorporating Qi’s analytics in their investment process. It is led by experienced macro hedge fund portfolio managers and leading academics in machine learning and signal extraction from Cambridge, Harvard and Princeton, in addition to best-in-class data engineers.
Quant Insight’s AI-based
Northern Trust is to take an equity stake in Essentia Analytics, a provider of behavioural analytics and consulting services.
The addition of Essentia behavioural analytics solutions is an extension of Northern Trust Whole Office, a strategy that facilitates client access to new technologies, services and solutions across the investment lifecycle.
“We continue to pursue a strategy that combines Northern Trust’s global architecture with innovative partners like Essentia to help clients maximise the value of their data and optimsze investment performance,” says Pete Cherecwich, President of Corporate & Institutional Services at Northern Trust. “Essentia’s next generation data analytics technology allows
Edge Focus, a technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyse credit, has entered into a strategic partnership with prominent hedge fund Brevan Howard and global quantitative trading firm DRW.
“I cannot think of two better complementary partners to enable us to accomplish our ambitious goals while using our technology to lower the cost of capital for millions of borrowers,” says Elliott Lorenz, co-founder and CEO of Edge Focus.
“We are delighted to partner with Edge Focus, whom we view as an exciting and innovative manager in the field of consumer credit,” says Aron Landy, CEO of
