Solutions
Talos, a technology provider for the institutional trading of digital assets, has integrated order flow from six OTC liquidity providers into its end-to-end trading platform – Alameda Research, B2C2, Cumberland, Galaxy Digital, Genesis, and Hehmeyer.
With the addition of these liquidity partners to the Talos platform, which already includes connectivity to top cryptocurrency exchanges, institutional investment firms and broker-dealers can seamlessly and simultaneously access the vast majority of digital asset liquidity.
“OTC liquidity providers play a crucial role in the digital assets trading landscape and account for a large portion of the global institutional traded volume,” says Anton Katz, co-founder
Substantive Research, a research discovery and research spend analytics provider for the buy-side, has launched its Analyst Mapping service, allowing asset managers to gain an aggregated view of banks’ analyst moves, their seniority and sector coverage of relevance to them.
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Enfusion, a global cloud-native software-as-a-service (SaaS) has signed a record number of new fund manager clients so far in 2020, and onboarded new hires to support the increasing demand from institutional asset managers and hedge funds.Read the full story at Intsitutional Asset Manager
In a consistent effort to improve its value proposition to investment managers and service providers, the Bahamas has continued to fine-tune its legislative framework, pandemic notwithstanding. The changes expected will support the growing trends witnessed within the financial services industry, both in the Bahamas and on a more global scale.
HS Markit has launched a Sovereign ESG Dataset incorporating 41 discrete indicators across 211 countries and territories. The dataset outputs are numerical for efficient portfolio integration and include forward guidance on a one-year horizon for key Sovereign ESG indicators.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will expand its product range on the derivatives market with new Futures Style Margin Options for EEX power, gas and emissions futures.EEX has been successfully offering Equity Style Margin Options for several of its products for many years and will now add Futures Style Margin Options to its product portfolio. On 7 December 2020, EEX will introduce the new options on the emissions market and support the offering with a fee holiday. The options on power and natural gas futures will be available as of 15 February 2021. All Future Style Margin Options will be
Insurance-linked securities manager Securis Investment Partners has implemented Indus Valley Partners’ pricing automation solution, IVP Price Master.IVP Price Master is designed to help firms take the complexity out of their pricing process through its key features such as automation, flexible reporting, exception management and extensive connectivity.
“In our ongoing effort to automate key operational processes, Price Master will contribute to improved efficiency within our valuation and fund accounting function. It consolidates the process of collecting market prices from multiple sources, a process that can be quite work-intensive and onerous,” says James Dawson, Operations Manager for Securis.
“The continued adoption
GH Financials (GHF) has selected Eventus Systems to meet its trade surveillance needs worldwide. The London-based exchange-traded derivatives clearing firm will deploy the cloud-based version of the Eventus Validus platform beginning in early 2021.The decision comes following an extensive, nearly year-long review of solutions on the market. Validus will replace two existing outsourced solutions currently employed by GHF. The clearing firm will use Validus not only for trade surveillance of all of its futures and options activity on markets globally, but also for compliance with “RTS 6” real-time algorithmic monitoring requirements under the European Union’s MiFID II regulatory framework. GHF
DeFi project KingSwap has completed its migration from Uniswap to its own platform’s liquidity and farming pools. Earlier this month, KingSwap achieved USD4 million in transaction volume in its first three days on Uniswap. Now, KingSwap’s DEX features are available directly through its website https://www.kingswap.exchange. The first regulated DeFi project out of Singapore, KingSwap is a high-yield liquidity platform that offers extensive staking rewards, digital collectibles, and fiat conversions. An evolution of Uniswap, KingSwap provides user-friendly features that provide real-time benefits in terms of price curves and contributor rewards.
“We’re pleased with the quick progress our team has made in migrating
TORA, a provider of industry-leading trading technology, has integrated its order & execution management system (OEMS) with leading provider of financial market services, TP ICAP and their Fusion RFQ engine. The new integration enables TORA’s Equity & ETF clients to access greater liquidity through Fusion RFQ’s global pool of over 14,500 instruments and 30-plus Liquidity providers.
The new partnership aims to bring more efficiency to Equity and ETF execution workflows. Fusion RFQ feeds requests from clients (Requesters) to Liquidity Providers (LP) who in turn provide two‐way prices in the requested size or decline. The engine returns the best bid and
