Solutions
Tourmaline Partners, an independent outsourced trading solutions firm, has marked the 10th anniversary of its business.
The firm currently serves more than 350 institutional investor clients including hedge funds and asset managers of all sizes. Its non‐competitive relationships with more than 400 global brokers provide clients with access to liquidity at all major exchanges, dark pools, and other off-exchange trading venues around the world. Tourmaline’s unique business model provides clients unprecedented help in cross-border trading, and in achieving best execution and costs savings.
Tourmaline was founded in Stamford, Connecticut in 2011 to provide global execution in equities and derivatives to
CARL has launched the CARL mobile application, a new digital investing tool that ‘puts the power of quantitative hedge funds in the hands of regular accredited investors’.
This new quant hedge fund opportunity is available now in the Apple App Store with an Android version in the pipeline.
CARL is able to bring leading global quant hedge funds to regular accredited investors with a buy-in as low as USD20k (down from standard USD1 million), real-time performance updates, and monthly liquidity never seen within quant hedge funds before.
CARL’s CEO, Gunnar Ceuvas, believes investors shouldn’t be left with limited research capabilities
ACA Compliance Group has launched a specialist global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) advisory practice.
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Cobalt, a foreign-exchange (FX) and digital asset infrastructure provider, has partnered with Baton Systems, a provider of post-trade solutions for capital markets.
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Data and analytics company BMLL has made the BMLL Data Feed available to sell side participants on the Kx Streaming Analytics platform.
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RegEd has acquired the ComplianceMAX and FIRE Continuing Education businesses from National Regulatory Services (NRS), a provider of compliance and registration products and services for investment advisers, broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment companies and insurance institutions.
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Moonstake has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based RockX to support the Polkadot ecosystem.
RockX runs its own Polkadot node, and in September, launched a USD20 million five-year investment programme in the ecosystem. Through this partnership, Moonstake and RockX will accelerate the spread of Polkadot in the blockchain industry through staking.
Moonstake started in the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Moonstake has developed both Web wallets and Mobile wallets (iOS/Android) providing staking services. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets grew rapidly to reach
As warnings intensify about the need for regulation of digital assets across the UK and Europe, Gibraltar is adding to its already regulated digital ledger technology (DLT) framework with the development of a ‘10th Core Principle’, specifically for digital asset exchanges.
Joey Garcia, a partner at the international law firm ISOLAS LLP, who also sits on the boards of the Xapo and IOV Labs (RSK) groups, has brought together members of the Global Blockchain Convergence which include several other global leaders in the blockchain and emerging technology space to form a working group for the development of the new framework,
As more hedge funds pile into cryptocurrencies, market inefficiencies and price dispersion are bringing fresh arbitrage opportunities for managers.
Bitcoin’s sustained rally over the past year saw the cryptocurrency roar to a record high of more than USD41,000 in early 2021, with many investors increasingly using it as a hedge against falling real yields and inflation risks stemming from central bank quantitative easing.
But as more hedge fund managers join the digital asset arena, running a range of discretionary and quantitative strategies, the potential for alpha generation “will likely moderate” in the coming months and years, said senior Lyxor Asset
CME Group’s BrokerTec, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, has successfully migrated its European government bonds and repo trading platform to CME Globex.
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