Solutions
BidFX has launched a new desktop-installed FX trading app powered by the OPenFin operating system.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Chronicle Software (Chronicle) says its latest Chronicle FIX solution is helping institutions improve the performance of their trading platforms.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has expanded further into the cryptocurrency market through the Gemini Trust Company (Gemini), a next-generation digital asset exchange.Options facilitates trading at hundreds of venues worldwide with fully managed colocation services available alongside the firm’s application management solution, combining hosting with rapid time to market, TCO reduction, and best-in-class resiliency and security. It offers a rich mix of hosting, compute, storage and market data options from over 40 physical trading venues across Europe, North America, South America, South Africa, Russia and Asia.
The announcement follows recent news of Options’
Outdated trading systems and clunky manual processes are hampering hedge funds’ efforts to swiftly execute trade orders to the market, resulting in an annual hit of some USD8 million – which could worsen in the event of renewed volatility later in the year.
New analysis by TradingScreen, a New York-based software-as-a-service trading technology provider, found that hedge funds face hold-ups when processing execution orders as a result of poor system integration and slow manual inputs needed to create, validate, execute and book trades.
By the time traders and portfolio managers have physically entered the information into their systems and sent
Phoenix American, a transfer agent and fund administration provider for alternative investments, and Alternative Investment Exchange (AIX), a digital platform built to improve processes for investing in alternatives, have partnered to provide straight-through processing for alternative investments.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
GoldenSource has launched a new Quant Workbench tool that allows quant developers and research analysts to do their work on approved validated data sources. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Ampleforth, the protocol behind the supply elastic digital currency, AMPL, has launched the world’s first rebasing Smart Pool in collaboration with programmable liquidity protocol and aggregator, Balancer. On Balancer, Smart Pools are controlled or private pools owned by a smart contract. These pools can be made of two to eight token constants, and customized with configurable weights that represent the desired ratio of each token in a pool.
Working closely with the Ampleforth team, Balancer will be debuting today the first USDC-AMPL Smart Pool, starting out with a 50/50 ratio. As the supply of AMPL expands or contracts every 24hrs,
FXCM Group, an international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, cryptocurrencies and related services, has added Volatility Index CFDs to its range of available trading instruments. In tracking the future volatility of the markets, rather than the stock prices themselves, the Volatility Index CFD now provide FXCM’s clients with the opportunity to profit directly from the unprecedented market swings seen today irrespective of which way the market is heading.
With the ticker symbol VOLX, aka “Volatility Index”, the product has the recently launched CBOE Mini VIX Future as the underlying asset. VOLX uses the price of options on
Aqua Digital Rising A new and alternative-asset and analytics investment platform has started its pre-funding round as it prepares for launch in January 2021.Aqua Indices represents one of the most significant developments in the area of alt-assets since the launch of cryptocurrencies. Big Data analytics linked to AI has allowed Aqua to construct indices based on humans. Hundreds of data points are collected and analysed using proprietary technology and then benchmarked against peer groups to allow a value to be created for individuals. Thousands of inputs, from performance to ‘likes’ are used to track and value the success of sports,
Dynamo Software, a provider of cloud software for the alternative investment industry, has acquired Imagineer Technology Group. The acquisition adds significant value across Dynamo’s product set and brings Dynamo’s customer base to over 1,000 clients of its CRM, deal management, portfolio monitoring, and investor reporting capabilities. Dynamo, majority-owned by San Francisco-based private equity firm Francisco Partners, did not disclose the terms of the deal.
Based in New York City, Imagineer has been a leading provider and significant software innovator in the alternative investment sector since 1998, providing CRM, investor relations, and reporting software for some of the highest profile hedge funds
