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Macrobond, a provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, has launched a Web API data feed to give customers direct access to millions of data points in real-time and on-demand.
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has released a new white paper that explores the risks created by US Treasury market fragmentation.
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Tether Operations (Tether), the blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, has surpassed USD60 billion in market capitalisation as market participants flooded to tether tokens (USDt) in the face of recent market turbulence.
Digital asset investment products saw net outflows for the second consecutive week last week, totalling a new record of USD97 million, according to the latest Digital Assets Fun Flows weekly report from CoinShares.
The outflow remains low, representing only 0.2 per cent of total assets under management (AuM).
Adding to the outflow was ether which saw minor outflows of USD12.6 million following a long run of record-breaking inflows totalling USD924 million year to date (8 per cent of AuM)
All other altcoins (typically coins other than bitcoin) saw continued positive sentiment with inflows across the board totalling USD27 million. Cardano
Diginex Limited, a digital assets financial services company, has announced that combined 24-hour spot and derivative volumes on its EQUOS cryptocurrency exchange reached a record-high, exceeding USD200 million on May 20, 2021. Trading volume for the past 30 days has increased more than 40 per cent to USD2.9 billion, only three weeks since the company announced a record USD2 billion in 30-day volumes on May 4, 2021.
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As cryptocurrencies continue to experience violent price shocks, new industry research shows crypto hedge funds’ assets under management have almost doubled to some USD3.8 billion, with traditional managers increasingly eyeing the sector after returns soared in 2020.
Despite a challenging fundraising environment, the new Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance regulation (LPF) has the potential to make Hong Kong the preferred domicile for investment funds in Asia, especially once travel restrictions are lifted. As investors seek to broaden their portfolios, Asian funds can be a valuable source of diversification.
“We are very excited about the limited partnership fund structure. It gives the market additional flavour and we now have more options to offer our clients and prospects,” says Michael Pang, Executive Director, Head of North Asia Alternative Investments, Circle Partners, “The reaction and feedback from the community has been very
Hong Kong recently introduced regulatory reforms, policies and incentives to drive growth and increase Hong Kong’s attractiveness as a fund domicile. The newly adopted Limited Partnership Fund Ordinance (LPF) bill allows Hong Kong’s private equity firms to launch limited partnership funds. Already, there are signs that firms are taking advantage of the market to innovate.
As Asian investors demonstrate a growing appetite to allocate to alternative investment funds, Hong Kong is becoming more attractive to managers looking to make the most of the opportunity.
SIGTech, a provider of next-gen quant trading technology for global investment managers, has announced that it has integrated with IHS Markit Data Lake.
The integration facilitates access to over 1,500 proprietary datasets curated by IHS Markit, enabling quantitative fund managers to seamlessly access these financial and alternative datasets in making the best investment decisions.
This is the first time that IHS Markit’s Data Lake has been integrated with a quant trading platform. It contains proprietary alternative datasets with a long history, compiled by IHS Markit’s 5,000 analysts, data scientists, financial experts and industry specialists. SIGTech platform users can now easily
