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LSEG’s (London Stock Exchange Group) Turquoise Plato is connecting to OpenFin in response to the industry need for workflow efficiencies, application interoperability, and a more unified desktop experience for the buy-side and member firm users.
Turquoise has a proven track record in delivering innovation and liquidity opportunities to the market, with Turquoise Plato Block Discovery having seen record levels of block trading activity on Turquoise and Turquoise Europe in 2020. With this collaboration, Turquoise is continuing to deliver on its mission to identify efficient, collaborative operating models that reduce the implicit cost of trading, contribute to long-term investment returns and
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide, has launched IvyDB Borrow Rate offering insights on the options-implied costs of short-selling individual securities computed intraday across maturities.
The new dataset gives institutional investors and academia valuable information to pinpoint short-selling pressure, analyse dynamic borrowing conditions, and improve research on short-selling positions.
Announcement of this new product comes as interest in short-selling (or borrowing shares of a stock to sell with hopes to buy it back cheaper) continues to grow, with GameStop and other meme stocks hitting trading highs earlier this year as just one
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD42 million last week, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows weekly report from CoinShares.
Inflows were seen across all digital assets and signals what we believe to be continued improving sentiment amongst investors.
Bitcoin saw inflows of USD15 million, having suffered the most from negative investor sentiment recently with inflows in only three of the last 16 weeks.
Solana, despite recovering from a network outage caused by a DDoS attack, saw inflows of USD4.8 million. This suggests investors were happy to shrug-off the attack, seeing it as teething problems rather than
Umbria’s ultra-low-cost liquidity bridge now supports ETH and MATIC in addition to USDT and UMBR.
Using Narni, the native tokens for the Ethereum and Polygon networks can be transferred exceptionally quickly and cheaply cross-chain. ETH, which was launched first, can be bridged from the Ethereum to Polygon Network for as little as USD2.56 in gas, which is significantly less than other bridges. This has caused the Narni Bridge to be adopted rapidly by many DeFi participants and has especially caught the attention of the Zed Run community, who had previously been hampered by prohibitively expensive gas fees.
Another considerable
CME Group has launched what it says is the derivatives industry’s first-ever Sustainable Clearing service to help market participants track and report on how their hedging activities are advancing their sustainability goals.
Montréal Exchange (MX), Canada’s derivatives exchange, has launched the next phase of its extended trading hours initiative, offering investors in the Asia Pacific region the opportunity to manage their exposure to Canadian markets and execute cross-market strategies in their local time, almost 24 hours a day.
“We are extremely excited to launch this new phase of MX’s globalisation strategy, as we continue to push the evolution of our markets and address the increasing global demand for Canadian derivatives,” says Luc Fortin, President and Chief Executive Officer of MX and Global Head of Trading, TMX Group. “In keeping with the trend
C8, a fintech platform that offers investors the ability to use direct indexing across all liquid asset classes and investment styles, has launched a China Futures Access vehicle for offshore investors.
The strategy, used by C8’s Chinese onshore clients since 2018, provides institutional investors access to some of the world’s fastest developing futures markets via up to 50 commodity contracts.
The pace of innovation in China’s futures markets is accelerating, particularly in the commodity complex. Recent developments include the launch of the Guangzhou Futures Exchange in April 2021, China’s fifth futures exchange, focused on environmental products including carbon futures
Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform accessible through the Bitfinex digital token trading platform, has launched perpetual contracts for algorand, and ripple bitcoin.
Algorand (ALGOF0:USTF0) and ripple, bitcoin (XRPF0:BTCF0) offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in tether tokens (USDt) and bitcoin (BTC), respectively.
“We’re delighted to announce the addition of algorand and ripple, bitcoin to the growing portfolio of perpetual swaps available to trade on the exchange,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “We anticipate great interest in these products, particularly among funds and professional investors for hedging purposes and to manage risk.”
Bitfinex Derivatives platform
Causality Link, an advanced, AI-driven financial information technology provider, has launched the third generation of its platform. The technology now includes automated hourly alert queries, the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Navigator Tool, an expanded scope of system detection and more.
The Causality Link platform is an AI-powered system that collects millions of documents globally, in real-time, to identify explicit cause-and-effect statements relating indicators and events, aggregating the knowledge of thousands of authors into a single deductive system. Having processed and analysed more than 100 million texts in 27 languages spanning the past seven years of market activity, the platform provides
100 Women in Finance, the 20,000-member global industry association for hedge fund, alternatives and investment management professionals which aims to empower women within the global finance industry, has picked more than 300 female fund managers to participate in this year’s Global FundWomen Week, its annual flagship capital introduction event taking place from 20-24 September.
Launched in 2014, Global FundWomen Week – which takes place virtually for the second year, hosted on capital introduction technology platform iConnections – provides an opportunity for leading female fund managers to schedule one-on-one capital introduction meetings with institutional allocators.
More than 300 institutional allocators have
