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Digital token trading platform Bitfinex successfully managed 400,000 ‘trading events’ per second yesterday amid a frenzy of speculation on bitcoin after Elon Musk’s Tesla bought USD1.5 billion of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.
FXCM Pro offers wholesale execution and liquidity solutions for retail brokers, hedge funds and emerging market banks. The firm’s relationships with tier 1 banks and non-bank liquidity providers, prime broker relationships and technology vendors provide its customers with market access on an unrivalled scale.
First New York, a multi-asset class investment firm, has deployed Eventus Systems’ Validus platform to meet its global trade surveillance needs.
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Executive search firm Morgan Samuels has appointed Joanne Doyle Pauley as a senior client partner based in Los Angeles.
Pauley joins Morgan Samuels from The Oxbridge Group, where she led a private capital and financial practice and conducted successful investment professional and C-suite executive searches for private equity, hedge fund, and alternative investment management firms.
Prior to The Oxbridge Group, Pauley spent time at Evercore Partners and Korn Ferry International, where her Fortune 500 search experience included supporting high profile searches for Nike, Times Mirror, and Dole.
Morgan Samuels Chairman and CEO Bert Hensley, says: “We are honoured to have
Cboe Global Markets is to introduce early trading on the Cboe EDGX Equities Exchange beginning at 4:00 am ET, with order acceptance beginning at 3:30 am ET, from Monday, 8 March, pending regulatory approval.
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CME Group has launched ether futures, further expanding its crypto derivatives offerings in this emerging asset class.
“As institutional demand for transparent, exchange-listed crypto derivatives continues to increase, we are pleased to launch our new ether futures contract,” says Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products. “The addition of Ether, along with our liquid Bitcoin futures and options, will create new opportunities for a broad array of clients, whether they are looking to hedge ether positions in the spot market or gain exposure to this cryptocurrency on a regulated derivatives marketplace.”
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Coinsquare, a Canadian digital asset trading platform, has launched a new Quick Trade mobile app, which aims to makes the buying and selling digital assets quick and convenient, with customers able to easily manage their portfolio of digital assets.
The launch of Quick Trade represents a new standard for mobile trading, with commission-free transactions and competitive pricing for the most popular digital assets.
The Quick Trade app — available in English and French — offers the following benefits and features:
• Simplified KYC process – get verified to trade within seconds
• Instant account funding via Interac e-Transfer
• No-fee
There is growing familiarity with Dutch hedge fund structures among investors which has been driving the jurisdiction’s fortunes as a continental alternative to Luxembourg and Ireland. Service providers in Amsterdam are welcoming this progress while also being discerning in their approach.
Allocations to hedge funds are set to increase in 2021, “2020 was largely driven by volatility and global macro-economic uncertainties. The defensive approach adopted by hedge funds, the ability to demonstrate uncorrelated performance as well as navigate these choppy waters successfully has positioned managers to draw in more institutional capital and also encourage more fund start-ups” comments Delphine Amzallag
By A Paris – The outlook for growth in the Amsterdam financial services industry is optimistic, driven by the Brexit fallout, an increased need for political stability and access to a diversified support eco-system which can help alternative asset managers thrive.
Finxflo, the world’s first regulated, hybrid liquidity aggregator for digital asset investors, has launched an FXF token-based capital raise on Polkastarter, a protocol built for cross-chain token pools and auctions that enables projects to raise capital on a decentralised and interoperable environment.
The FXF token pool will go live on Polkastarter 8 February, 2021.
Finxflo is a regulated, secure trading platform designed to offer the best rates and prices from the world’s leading CeFi and DeFi protocols through one connection, one account, and one KYC process. The project has raised USD2.7 million in private contribution events for its FXF token,
