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Tuesday, 9 February marked the successful launch of the EPEX SPOT Polish Day-Ahead auction which extends the Group’s power spot offering in Central Europe. The market started off well with 33.6 GWh traded until the end of the month.
In the European Power Derivatives markets, French Futures grew by 16 per cent to 36.2 TWh, while the Austrian, Swiss and Dutch Power Futures all recorded double-digit growth rates. Nordic Power Futures more than quadrupled and reached a new monthly record at 2,192 GWh (previous record: 1,312 GWh in November 2020). Polish Power Futures also achieved their highest volume so far
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has expanded the range of market data services available to algorithmic traders with the launch of snapshots of historical funding book data on Bitfinex Terminal.
The launch of historical funding book data adds to the range of advanced tools available to Bitfinex customers, enabling the analysis of trading data and the backtesting of ideas to power algorithmic trading strategies.
Historical funding book data, which consists of snapshots taken every 5 seconds, is the second set of premium data available on a pay-as-you-go basis on Bitfinex Terminal, following the earlier launch of historical exchange order
EQUOS, Diginex’s institutional-grade cryptocurrency exchange, has launched ether (ETH) Perpetual Futures (ETH/USDC[F]), to provide investors with the opportunity to trade and hedge in all market conditions.
This launch follows the EQUOS’ Bitcoin Perpetual Futures (BTC/USDC [F]), which was introduced to EQUOS customers in early January. It is part of the continuing roadmap for EQUOS in its mission to create the industry-leading derivatives trading venue, for both institutional and individual investors.
The EQUOS ETH Perpetual Future is designed to allow professional traders and institutional investors to take a directional position on ETH using USDC as collateral, in an environment that is
Since launching in late 2018, BKCoin Capital, a New York-based digital asset-focused hedge fund firm, has built an impressive track record with its market neutral, arbitrage-based approach to cryptocurrency trading.
Established by founding principals Carlos Betancourt and Kevin Kang, the BKCoin Digital Asset Fund aims to capitalise on price inefficiency and volatility within cryptocurrencies using an algorithm-based trading model that fuses elements of statistical arbitrage and multi-strategy long/short investing.
Reflecting on the firm’s origins, Betancourt and Kang recall how investors were initially cautious on what they saw as the speculative, volatile nature of cryptocurrencies. BKCoin Capital sought to develop a
State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) has launched its new Peer-to-Peer Repo programme for the buy-side. Building from its market-leading position in sponsored repo and securities lending, including peer-to-peer opportunities within its agency lending program, Peer-to-Peer Repo enables competitive financing costs across a broader range of collateral types and yield enhancement opportunities compared to traditional repo markets.
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TRG Screen, a provider of enterprise subscription spend management solutions, has acquired the Market Data Reporting (MDR) business from Jordan & Jordan (J&J).
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TrueUSD (TUSD), a top-five fiat-backed stablecoin, has natively launched on Avalanche. This brings another cornerstone DeFi asset to the rapidly growing Avalanche ecosystem and expands US Dollar liquidity for its users and applications.
TrustToken plans to bring additional products to Avalanche that build on TUSD, and will play a vital role in the DeFi applications on the platform.
Users can now access TUSD on Avalanche directly through TrustToken’s TrueCurrencies App. AVAX-TUSD will also be added as a liquidity pool on decentralised exchange Pangolin, so users can also access it directly in Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem alongside other prominent DeFi assets
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to global capital markets, has partnered with Singapore Exchange (SGX) to provide ultra-low latency connectivity for order entry and market data.
Following an initial expansion to SGX in 2020, Options has now added their ultra-low latency (ULL) Managed Colocation services to the SGX Tier 1 site. With the option of shared or dedicated connectivity utilising best-in-class switching fabric, financial institutions can now benefit from a scalable managed service backed by premium technology. Financial institutions will have access to both order entry and market data across all available SGX asset classes and cloud-first solutions
Social media networks are now “critical communications channels and sources of real-time data” for investment managers, presenting myriad opportunities – and potentially huge risks – to firms, and dramatically reshaping the way they trade portfolios, build investment ideas and communicate with clients, according to a major new study by SEI.
Integral, a technology company in the foreign exchange market, has reported average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totalled USD50.4 billion in February 2021.
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