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SmartSearch a specialist in anti-money laundering software solutions has been named in the Sunday Times Sage ‘Tech Track 100’ for a second successive year. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Sudrania Fund Services (Sudrania) has established an office in Singapore making its end-to-end cloud-based fund administration platform available to clients looking to take advantage of the country’s recently enacted Variable Capital Company (VCC) fund structure legislation. Sudrania also has offices in Hong Kong, India, the USA, and the Cayman Islands.
“The combination of VCC legislation, plus our cloud-based fund admin model, helps accelerate fund launches for sophisticated, early-adopting managers,” says Ravindra Tailor, Director of Org Development (APAC) of Sudrania. “Our strategic goal has always been to help managers stay competitive and focus on generating alpha for their investors, so opening this
Bardin Hill Investment Partners, a credit-focused and event-driven investment management firm with more than USD8.5 billion in assets under management, has chosen SS&C Technologies’ Eze OMS to manage its fixed income strategies.
Fintech provider, Gold-i and digital asset settlement firm, Zero Hash have launched a partnership to provide Prime of Primes, retail FX brokers and hedge funds with a centrally settled crypto offering and a cost-effective, efficient means of accessing cryptocurrency Liquidity Providers.The partnership leverages Gold-i’s order routing and order matching technology through its Crypto Switch™ 2.0 – part of Gold-i’s Matrix product suite – and Zero Hash’s fully automated and customisable post-trade infrastructure, maximising capital efficiency.
Tom Higgins, CEO, Gold-i, says: “Partnering with Zero Hash adds a new dimension to our offering, providing a centrally settled digital assets solution. As
New academic research by Plato Investment Management’s Head of Long Short Strategies, Dr David Allen, has highlighted the need for investors to move beyond the traditional “bell-shaped” normal distribution assumption that underpins much of industry practice.Dr Allen’s research paper, titled A comparison of non-Guassian VaR estimation and portfolio construction techniques, has recently been published in the Journal of Empirical Finance.
“It is widely accepted by academics that asset returns do not follow the well behaved bell-shaped normal distribution of economic textbooks, and that extreme returns occur much more frequently than one would expect,” says Allen. “For example, if stock returns
Frankfurt-based asset manager First Private Investment Management has established a new multi-boutique network, FP Investment Partners which offers access to quant investing, infrastructure and alternatives/hedge fund investments.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
LEVERJ a decentralised cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform launched by Wall Street veterans from JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse, has partnered with Brave New Coin (BNC) to create a scalable decentralised derivatives exchange.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
StakeHound is to launch the first tokens that allow access to DeFi while earning staking rewards, unlocking USD20 billion in liquidity for the Ethereum and Radix ecosystems. Incubated by Radix, the first layer-one protocol for DeFi, StakeHound will provide a seamless liquidity bridge into the rapidly growing DeFi ecosystems on both ledgers.
Until now, cryptocurrency users had to choose between earning staking rewards by staking their tokens, or retaining token liquidity by not staking, allowing them to participate in things like DeFi and token trading. StakeHound solves this by creating stake-backed, instantly transferable, and DeFi-ready tokens. All major Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrencies will
Systematic asset manager RAM Active Investments has chosen EFA to support the launch and administration of the new RAM Stable Climate Global Equities Fund.The AI-driven sustainable fund’s objective is to tackle climate emergency and to provide RAM’s investors an active strategy resulting in a strong performance.
As a company, EFA has always been strongly committed to ESG issues. This ensures funds with a sustainable strategy that their administration value chain is also “green”.
“Several items contribute to RAM AI’s continuous partnership with EFA,” says says Thomas de Saint-Seine, CEO, Partner & Senior Fund Manager, RAM Active Investments. “The fact that
TriOptima has extended its collaboration with AcadiaSoft to automate monthly collateral interest payments, making trade processing more efficient for over-the-counter (OTC) market participants.
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