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Style Analytics, a London and Boston based factor analysis firm that is now a part of Investment Metrics, has partnered with Australian-based asset consultant and research advisory firm, Foresight Analytics, to deliver decision insights, advice and direction to its myriad of clients on complex problems, opaque products and interconnected economies and markets.
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Digital currency futures and options exchange and clearinghouse LedgerX is to launch digital currency perpetuals powered by digital asset data infrastructure company Brave New Coin.
LedgerX will use Brave New Coin’s high-frequency BTC and ETH price feeds for its perpetual products, which it intends to submit to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for its review and approval. LedgerX was the first CFTC regulated cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, and is backed by Digital Finance Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Miami International Holdings, Google Ventures, and SV Angel. Once again, LedgerX is the first to innovate in US derivatives markets and will be
CloseCross has become the world’s first blockchain-based derivatives trading platform to be licensed under the European Union’s MIFID II regulations, enabling the company to accelerate plans for a market launch in March.
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Cryptocurrency hedge fund, Tyr Capital Arbitrage SP, has teamed up with HedgeGuard, a provider of portfolio management software and services for traditional and crypto asset managers, to increase greater operational efficiency across its fund activities.
With HedgeGuard’s technology, Tyr Capital will have faster, more agile oversight across its order books, with seamless risk management and real-time tracking and reconciliation of fund positions. The technology easily integrates with third parties so that Tyr Capital’s activity across custodians, administrators, exchanges and wallets remains at its fingertips at all times.
Costs associated with operational management processes are a millstone around the neck
Digital asset investment products saw inflows of USD395 million despite a weak price environment, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Assets Flow report.
The report reveals there were almost no outflows but highlights increasing hesitancy to invest among investors.
To put the weak price environment into context, prices remain up 61 per cent year to date, and inflows in this current quarter are only 4 pet cent lower than the record inflows of USD4 billion seen in Q4 2020.
Bitcoin saw the highest inflows at USD288 million, but on a proportional market capitalisation basis, ether and polkadot saw higher inflows of
Northern Trust has paired up with Two Sigma to offer Venn, the quantitative investment specialist’s cloud-based analytics platform, to its clients.
Quincy Data has expanded its lowest known latency market data services to Canada. The Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service now distributes select Aurora, Illinois-sourced futures data at Toronto’s TMX data center at the lowest known latency.
Quincy Data redistributes the full range of its select Equity Index, US Treasuries, Metals, Energy, and FX futures data at TMX via the industry-leading QED service.
Stephane Tyc, Quincy Data Co-Founder, says: “Canadian markets are quite dynamic, with an active community of local traders. Toronto has also attracted meaningful interest from global firms. Access to the lowest latency market data is critical for
Aspect Capital, a systematic investment manager, is further expanding its use of OpenGamma’s derivatives analytics across the range of markets it trades.
OpenGamma’s analytics track risk exposure and help maintain fund liquidity. OpenGamma’s breadth of coverage for exchange and broker margin methodologies has made it the partner of choice for Aspect Capital since 2018.
Aspect Capital is always seeking new opportunities, and trading new markets comes with hidden challenges. For example, futures and options contracts trade on local country exchanges, and each exchange has its own specific approach for calculating derivatives margin.
To help control risk and manage
The USD6 trillion foreign exchange (FX) industry is in the midst of a tech revolution, with cloud computing and trading technology upgrades set to become the sector’s major disruptors in 2021 and beyond, according to new independent research commissioned by Integral, a provider of FX SaaS technology solutions and trading platforms.
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Leading global investor services group IQ-EQ has today announced plans to expand its Irish operations with the launch of a dedicated Funds business in Ireland.
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