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Essentia Analytics has launched a new enterprise version of its Insight behavioural data analytics solution aimed at teams of equity portfolio managers.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
ICE Data Services (IDS) has IOWArocks growing data owner community. ICE Data Services is part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), and provides a comprehensive set of market insights and information, including pricing and analytics, indices and exchange data. IOWArocks is powered by MDX Technology.Anthony Belcher, Head of ICE Data Services (EMEA), says: “The ability to deliver our consolidated data feed via the IOWArocks product suite provides an additional flexible, complementary service to our existing high-performance data distribution capability. We believe the combination of ICE data and IOWArocks applications will be particularly appealing for many market participants. This approach is aligned
BnkToTheFuture, a global online investment platform and digital asset securities business, is moving its clients’ assets to new trust partner, First Digital Trust (FDT), to provide additional protections to client funds.
Linedata, a provider of credit and asset management technology, data and services, has partnered with analytics platform Invisage to help global hedge funds and asset managers streamline investment research costs in the post-MiFID II environment.Linedata’s global fund manager clients can now track the performance of research using Invisage’s solution, helping reduce spend on research under MiFID II rules and informing investment strategy to better generate alpha.
Under MiFID II rules requiring fund managers to ‘unbundle’ investment research costs, budgets set aside by firms for research have fallen by 20 per cent to 30 per cent, according to the FCA,
IHS Markit has integrated its multi-asset class investment management platform thinkFolio with Investor Access.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
ECXX Global is to launch a blockchain-based digital securities exchange platform ecxx.co, having secured RMO Sandbox approval as a Recognised Market Operator (RMO) from Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Avelacom, a high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, is launching its low latency network, market data and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions for market participants on B3, Brazil’s stock exchange. B3 traders will be able to access high capacity trading link options and IT resources, with better control of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), without any compromise in data speed.
With increased trading volumes and rising volatility, buy- and sell-side firms need improved connections, to manage their costs and be confident in the robustness of network systems.
Avelacom’s ready-to-go infrastructure facilitates this without the need
Huobi Asset Management (Hong Kong), the wholly-owned asset management subsidiary of Huobi Technology Holdings, has been granted with Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 9 (asset management) licenses by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to conduct the respective regulated activities.
The Company will focus on providing securities advisory and asset management services to professional investors, with the long term aim to build an integrated financial service platform to serve customers both from the traditional and virtual asset industry.
According to Elaine Sun, the Compliance Director of Huobi Tech: “We are delighted to get licensed and it marks a
Digital asset trading platform Bitfinex is offering a reward to persons that connect the exchange with the hackers responsible for the unauthorised transfer of almost 120,000 bitcoins from the exchange in August 2016. The hackers themselves will also be rewarded for returning the stolen property. A total reward pot of approximately USD400 million is available as part of the exchange’s efforts to reclaim the stolen property.
After the identity of the hackers is confirmed, the persons establishing contact with the hackers will be rewarded. The hackers will be paid upon return of the stolen bitcoin. Those who put Bitfinex in contact
Digital asset exchange provider Binance has launched COIN- and USDT-margined product categories for its range of perpetual and quarterly futures to highlight the use of bitcoin and altcoins as the currencies for settlement. The new categorisation puts cryptocurrencies on more equal footing with fiat, and reflects the increased interest in futures margined and settled with bitcoin and altcoins.
Users on Binance Futures can now select futures contracts as follow:
• COIN-margined Futures (displayed as “COIN-Ⓜ” on the web and mobile app)
Quarterly Futures
• Perpetual Futures (to be launched Q3 2020)
• USDT-margined Futures (displayed as “USDT-Ⓜ” on the web and
