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Elliptic, a specialist in crypto asset risk management solutions, has integrated its blockchain analysis solutions for transaction and wallet risk screening with Fireblocks’ institutional platform for storing, transferring, and issuing digital assets, automating anti-money laundering (AML) compliance for shared institutional customers.Now that Elliptic’s real-time risk scoring and analytics are exposed directly in the Fireblocks platform, their joint customers have the ability to quickly identify and take action on potentially risky transactions in a scalable way, saving time and cost in their compliance operations.
“The cryptoasset market is developing and gaining the attention of institutional and retail investors as an efficient
Digital B2B ecommerce marketplace provider Distichain is partnering with SECDEX Digital Custodian (SECDEX), Africa and the Middle East’s first regulated fully operational digital custodian. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Pico, a provider of technology services for the financial markets community, has launched a new managed colocation facility at Chunghwa Telecom’s CHT Taipei IDC in Banqiao, New Taipei City. Pico is providing its own local Intellihands service in CHT Taipei IDC as well as for the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) data centre. Connectivity to TWSE, Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX), and the Taipei Exchange (TPEx) will be offered in the future to clients hosting in CHT Taipei IDC.
In March 2020, 24-hour continuous trading on Taiwan’s stock market came into effect, replacing the call auction trading method. Pico responded by introducing
Cryptocurrency trading specialist Huobi has reported trading volume of USD877.8 billion in the first six months of 2020.Interestingly, Q1, which was a good quarter for the cryptocurrency space, has been matched by Q2 on Huobi despite the second quarter being impacted by a major bitcoin market collapse.
For Q1, unilateral trading volume totalled USDF444.2 billion while Q2 was USD433.7 billion. Even though Q2 was characterised by a market drop and thensideways trading, the transaction volume saw no significant decline.
Huobi only recently launched its own perpetual swap product, but it has been an instant success, keeping up with, and sometimes
Cambrian Asset Management (Cambrian), a quantitative investment firm specialising in liquid digital assets, has appointed Tony Fenner-Leitao as President. Fenner-Leitao, a veteran of the hedge fund industry, has held several prominent business development and strategic positions, including a role as Chief Executive Officer of Winton Capital, one of the largest quantitative investment firms in the industry.
Fenner-Leitao’s appointment follows Cambrian’s recent announcement of the closing of its first equity round. Last month the firm raised USD4.2 million in seed equity from notable technology and quantitative investors, including Howard Morgan, Co-founder, Renaissance Technologies, Tano Capital, the Family Office of the founding family
The UK’s slide into recession could squeeze investor flows into the country, carrying far-reaching implications for hedge funds focused on UK markets.
Data released this week shows UK GDP contracted by 20.4 per cent between April and June – the biggest fall on record – pushing the country officially into recession for the first time since 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis.
Tom Reeves, head of research at Murano, the London-based research-focused platform that connects global investors with alternative asset managers, described the UK’s second quarter numbers as “concerning”, particularly when compared to its peers.
The UK’s recession, coupled with
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has partnered with Margin Reform, a management and information technology consultancy in the margin, collateral, and legal space, to support the consultancy’s clients with compliance and regulatory reporting solutions. Margin Reform will offer SteelEye’s RegTech suite to its financial clients as they address the challenges of the evolving regulatory landscape.
“With increasing regulations, and marketplaces such as the CME and Deutsche Börse about to close their reporting businesses, there has been a significant increase in the demand from affected clients seeking automated solutions to properly handle their regulatory reporting and other compliance requirements,”
Project One, a ‘next generation’ AI-powered hedge fund has set it sights on generating returns similar to Renaissance Terchnologies’ fabled Medallion fund, the granddaddy of quant funds. Project One, the brainchild of Andrew Sobko and Rami Jachi, is powered by a 100 per cent model-driven, alpha-learning, AI algorithm designed to pinpoint market demand projections while actively applying real-time data analysis insights without human interruptions.
The Project One hedge fund, is targeting USD1 billion under management by 2021 and projects an average of 60 per cent annualised returns, similar to the performance of the Medallion fund which is famed for achieving returns
Global multi-asset execution, clearing and liquidity provider Sucden Financeial has become a Principal on the BierbaumPro trading platform, branded as NTpro in Russia.
A crisis is coming, and Americans are woefully unprepared
A crisis is coming, and Americans are woefully unprepared