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Along with the Covid-19 pandemic’s tumult, alternative investment fund managers have had to face a number of tax changes that are anticipated to have a tremendous impact on their business.
Trading volume in Cboe’s new Mini VIX futures totalled nearly 127,000 contracts during their first week. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Radix has launched the first layer-one protocol built specifically for decentralised finance. Radix is made up of four technologies: Cerberus, a high-speed network consensus mechanism; the Radix Engine, a purpose-built development environment for building DeFi applications; the Component Catalog, a library of DeFi building blocks; and the Developer Royalty System, a first-of-its kind decentralised incentive program. These core technologies were developed to prepare DeFi for mass adoption, and are detailed further in a new DeFi White Paper published by Radix.
Traditional financial systems require many layers of intermediation and manual processes, costing an estimated .05 per cent of the global GDP,
Populous World the company behind the Populous Invoice Platform ‘PIP’ has launched Populous Exchange (PopEX), a new cryptocuurrency exchange. The sole purpose of PopEx is to further bring together the world of crypto and traditional finance under one roof, making it easier for users to access and trade various cryptocurrencies while also giving users direct access to traditional financial markets such as invoice finance via the PIP.
PopEx has been created with the same and enhanced security design which is currently used by the Populous Invoice Platform. The wallet functionality of the PopEx has now been integrated into the PIP making
Fund Recs’ Transfer Agency bank reconciliation module has been selected by SuMi TRUST for its fund services business in Ireland.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Clear Hedge Capital, a boutique lending group for alternative investment vehicles, and BitGo Prime, a digital asset financial services company, are to collaborate and focus exclusively on providing loans in the digital asset space to institutions with loan sizes of USD10 million and above.
Elliptic, the global leader in cryptoasset risk management solutions, is to monitor Binance Chain and its native cryptoasset BNB, which averages USD250 million in daily trading volume. Elliptic’s crypto transaction and wallet monitoring solutions, Navigator and Lens, automate compliance monitoring for BNB so that Binance and other exchanges listing this token can scale operations efficiently and improve accuracy in detecting suspicious activity on the blockchain.
Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, has been using Elliptic’s blockchain analytics solutions and services since 2019 for their global compliance operations, working together in all regions that Binance operates to help them comply with
The Maples Group is acting as administrator of the Fountainhead Alternative Vehicle (FAV), Hong Kong-based multi-family office Fountainhead Partners’ USD285 million fund of hedge funds (FoHF) which has an estimated YTD return of 33 per cent.Having supported Fountainhead since 2016, the Group’s fund services business provides a full range of administration services to FAV, including fund accounting, investor services, and AEOI and AML compliance support. Its customisable approach, robust technology and infrastructure, coupled with the expertise and experience of its team in working with sophisticated family office clients were key elements in Fountainhead’s decision to engage the Maples Group and
The Alternative Investment Management Association has launched a new initiative aimed at improving transparency around diversity and inclusion within the global hedge fund and alternative investment industry.
Hedge fund industry trade group AIMA, in partnership with investment consultancy Albourne Partners, has unveiled the voluntary Diversity & Inclusion questionnaire, which looks to gauge how the industry is improving diversity within firms.
Specifically, the questionnaire – which is freely available to alternative investment managers, investors and service providers – will help investors better probe asset managers on the measures they are taking to improve representation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+
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