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The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), founded by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISNs), for OTC derivatives, is calling for new members for its Product Committee (PC) with an application closing date of 13 January 2021.
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Blockchain platform Telos has integrated with crypto payment solution MoonPay to make the TLOS token available for purchase with fiat currencies in 162 countries and 46 US states.
Users can now purchase TLOS with zero fees using Visa, Mastercard, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, or UK and SEPA bank transfer.
“Now for the first time, almost anyone in the world can join the thriving TLOS ecosystem with just a card or mobile payment thanks to MoonPay,” says Douglas Horn, Telos Chief Architect. “Holding TLOS allows users to engage in the Telos ecosystem, including proposing and voting on Telos Amend
Oasis Network’s farming and staking program, the ROSE Garden, has added more than 6,700 new Oasis token holders to the CoinList network in just three weeks.
The two phases of the initiative on CoinList, which consists of ROSE Farm + ROSE Cultivate, were uniquely designed to provide an easy way for Oasis Community members to gain access to the ROSE token while incentivising token holders to help secure the Oasis Network by staking ROSE tokens with Bison Trails.
Following the Mainnet launch of the Oasis Network last week, which delivered a fully decentralised, scalable, and privacy-enabled blockchain network with on-chain
Copper has become the first institutional custodian to support off-exchange settlement at Physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange CoinFlex.
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YRD Capital, the world’s first fund of funds (FoF) to focus on quantitative trading in crypto assets, has now accumulated three years of live track record.
This is longer than any of its peers, with an astonishing result of over 20 per cent net return to its investors over each year, even during the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis.
The milestone comes as the crypto industry continues to boom, with major events such as Bitcoin crossing the USDF17,000 valuation mark for the first time in three years, and major players such as Fidelity and PayPal adopting crypto assets.
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Private credit managers are on track to provide some USD100 billion of real economy financing this year, as investors increasingly turned to the sector as a resilient portfolio hedge and diversifier amid equity market ruptures during 2020’s coronavirus pandemic.
New research published by the Alternative Credit Council suggests the private credit market has weathered the economic shock brought about by Covid-19, with fund managers now increasingly bullish about the sector’s prospects next year.
The sixth annual ‘Financing the Economy’ report – published jointly by the ACC, the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association, and Allen & Overy
Cyprus-regulated cryptocurrency hedge fund ARK36 has partnered with the global virtual currency platform Coinify, which will provide institutional trading services for ARK36, ensuring best execution of orders across multiple trading venues.
ARK36 launched in October 2020 as an actively managed investment fund, focused on the cryptocurrency markets, delivering a risk-adjusted exposure to crypto-assets for professional investors. The fund is regulated as an Alternative Investment Fund with Limited Number of Persons (AIFLNP) authorised by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). ARK36 has been ideally placed to capitalise on the latest surge in the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, seen
Decentralised finance (DeFi) platform UniLend recently conducted a successful fundraiser, with Blockpass providing the requisite KYC and AML provision in order to meet regulatory compliance.
By handling the compliance measures, the UniLend team were able to focus their efforts on the actual fundraising process.
UniLend is a permissionless decentralised protocol that combines spot trading services and money markets with lending and services through smart contracts. The integrated smart contract for both features of the protocol allows both trading & DeFi capabilities to co-exist within the same protocol, solving the liquidity and liquidation issue which has been limiting the growth of
Brave New Coin, a data analytics and research company backed by Techemy Ltd, has joined forces with Sequoia-backed cross-chain data oracle platform Band Protocol to bring decentralised price reference data to the rapidly growing smart contract application ecosystem.
Band Protocol and Brave New Coin will work together to bring the globally weighted average spot prices for up to 1500-plus digital assets through the BandChain decentralised oracle network. This will allow smart contract developers to readily integrate and utilise these spot price oracles on any blockchain platform. Band Protocol has already been integrated by leading smart contract platforms including Ethereum, Binance
Bloomberg has launched a new tool to help calculate the full cost of foreign exchange trades on FXGO, its electronic trading platform on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Pictet Asset Management, a leading independent asset manager, is one of the first Bloomberg clients to use the tool.
Accuracy in pricing is a key goal for participants in the over-the-counter FX market that transacts more than USD6 trillion daily around the world. Regulations often require asset managers, pension funds and hedge funds to show they are providing the best execution for their investors.
Buy-side firms also want detail so they know the total
