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Digital asset trading platform Bitfinex Derivatives launched perpetual contracts for pound/tether (GBPF0:USTF0), euro/tether (EURF0:USTF0) and yen/tether (JPYF0:USTF0).
The GBPF0:USTF0, EURF0:USTF0 and JPYF0:USTF0 perpetual contracts went live on 01/09/20 at 9:00 AM UTC. Each contract will offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in USDt.
“These leading benchmark currency products will provide investors with further avenues for managing and offsetting risk, and deploying sophisticated trading strategies,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex Derivatives. “As the preeminent hub for institutional and professional traders in the digital asset space, we feel the addition of these perpetual swap
Singapore-based Broctagon Fintech Group has upgraded its NEXUS 2.0 liquidity aggregator technology, with the launch of Native Altcoin Liquidity Management.
The precision-based liquidity management system (LMS) allows exchanges to regulate the demand and supply of their native altcoins via algo-automated execution to achieve healthy liquidity and enhance token tradability.
Unlike bitcoin and major altcoins such as ethereum and litecoin, most exchange tokens still suffer from chronic illiquidity. This lack of liquidity often leads to high slippage and huge spreads, making conditions undesirable for trading, let alone holding it for the long term. Without sufficient participation by traders and investors,
CrossTower, a new digital asset exchange operator, has joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce.
The Chamber is the world’s leading trade association and advocacy group representing digital asset and blockchain industry innovators, operators and investors.
Now in its sixth year of existence, the Chamber serves four primary functions: to engage in policy work with state, federal and international stakeholders; to foster partnerships throughout the blockchain and crypto industry; to encourage capital formation and investment; and to advance the broader adoption of blockchain technology.
“This stage in the evolution of the digital asset class is a critical time to
Apex Group has partnered with Calypso technology to provide front to back office solutions to Ardent Financial Limited.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
CME Group has launched of options on its Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts, which are now available for trading.
Options on the Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are 1/10th the size of their E-mini options counterparts. The listing cycle for the new options consists of five Friday weekly options, three end-of-month options and two quarterly options contracts.
Successful options contracts require a robust, liquid underlying futures market. Since launching one year ago, Micro E-mini Equity futures have rapidly developed round-the-clock liquidity and become the most successful new product in CME Group’s
CB Insights has named CloudMargin, creator of a collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, to the third annual Fintech 250, a prestigious list of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking financial technology.
This marks the second consecutive time CloudMargin was named to the list, this year as one of 14 firms selected for the Regulatory & Compliance category.
“We’re proud to, once again, recognise the 250 best private fintech companies globally. This year’s Fintech 250 represents 25 countries and spans 19 categories – reimagining everything from retail banking and crypto, to insurance and asset management,” says
By A Paris – Alternative data and data science techniques can help give hedge funds a competitive edge but, it is the symbiotic integration of human and machine which ultimately underpins managers’ success or failure in their use of these techniques.
“We believe we understand these manager datasets better than anybody else and because of this we’re able to come up with factors and signals that nobody else would be able to identify; or rather it would considerably difficult for them to do so,” asserts Michael Perlow, co-founder of Epsilon Asset Management.
Epsilon employs a bottom-up investment process with a systematic approach which
Using order book data to drive investment decisions was historically the domain of high frequency trading hedge funds. However, as these datasets are being aggregated, harmonised and made searchable, a whole host of hedge funds and investment managers can seek to benefit from insights drawn from order book data to improve their back-testing techniques and enhance their alpha generation capabilities.
“In the past, certain types of high frequency trading firms would have gathered order book data and may have been able to use that in some ways. Now, however, there are systems which allow for analytics to be drawn out
As various pharmaceutical companies around the world endeavour to find a workable vaccine against the coronavirus, alternative data could help funds take an investment view on where the value lies in this global race.
The growing computing power witnessed in the past few years has led to data becoming more accessible, often at the touch of a button. Though there are huge benefits to this, the progress also means the danger of information overload is an unfortunate reality. As more alternative datasets become available to hedge fund managers looking for a competitive edge, they need to make sure they take full advantage of any data they purchase while also incorporating any information they share across their internal company channels.
Support for such an endeavour can come from a firm like Causality Link. “Our research
