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The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, the professional body for the global alternative investment industry, has appointed Graeme Griffiths, Chief Operating Officer with the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), to its Board of Directors.The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. An independent organisation supported by the United Nations, the PRI encourages investors to use responsible investment to enhance returns and manage risks and has so far gathered more than 3,000 signatories around the world with more than USD100 trillion in assets under management.
“We are at a very interesting inflection point in our capital markets. Investors
Genesis, a specialist in digital currency trading and lending, has launched a new derivatives trading desk. The new offering, which follows last week’s announcement that Genesis is launching a prime brokerage service called Genesis Prime, expands the company’s suite of digital asset trading, institutional lending, custody, and prime services.
“Genesis is a one-stop-shop for sophisticated market participants and trading partners in the digital asset industry,” says Michael Moro, CEO of Genesis. “With a strong balance sheet and a team of talented traders with years of experience across product sets, Genesis is uniquely well-positioned to build a scalable derivatives desk. We also
RBC has executed its first FX trades with clients via AMOS, a cutting-edge product in the market, aimed at hedge funds and real money clients who have an active FX mandate.AMOS is a daily FX trade recommendation service which allows subscribed clients to receive daily FX trade recommendations ahead of execution, replicating the performance of RBC’s FX positioning based trading strategy dollar for dollar. Completely unique and proprietary to RBC, it is exceptionally innovative allowing for potentially smarter investment decisions and a high level of transparency.
AMOS looks at speculative flows through FX markets to track and identify where markets
Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, and Aave Protocol, an open source and non-custodial money market protocol, have seen a surge in demand for Tether (USDt), amid growing interest in decentralised finance (DeFi).USDt is the biggest and fastest growing stablecoin money market in defi, with USD7.2 million worth of USDt now available on the Aave platform. USDt is enabling a stream of innovative DeFi financing products on Aave, which has a total liquidity of USD70 million with about USD60 million of locked assets in the smart contract.
Notably, there has been a ready take
Outsourced trading solutions firm Tourmaline Partners has hired three senior professionals – Alex Goodman and Matt Sindell have joined as Managing Directors, while Darren Mazzuca has joined as Director of Operations. All threeare based in Stamford.In recent years, Tourmaline has achieved considerable growth as more buy-side firms become aware of the advantages of outsourcing all or part of their trading operations to a specialist provider. Recent spikes in volumes and volatility have accelerated this trend, particularly among funds looking to outsource in a supplemental capacity. The new hires are emblematic of this growth, as well as Tourmaline’s deep experience with
Postera Capital, a specialist in crypto-specific investment products and strategies, has acquired sentiment analytics start-up Augmento. In 2018, Berlin-based Fintech Augmento began developing the sentiment analysis algorithm for cryptoassets, quickly becoming a major player in the alternative data industry.
With the acquisition, Postera Capital strengthens its position as a pioneer in crypto consulting as well as its investment vehicle Postera Fund – Crypto I, the first EU-regulated crypto fund.
The acquisition of Augmento, which has some of the most advanced forecasting capabilities in the industry, supports Postera’s expansion and development of its quantitative investment strategies.
“Augmento has developed a unique AI
With the proliferation of financial data and cloud technologies, customer requirements to ingest and analyse data are diversifying and evolving fast. Driven by data suppliers’ demand to leverage its ready-made infrastructure and services, Crux Informatics (Crux) has unveiled a new offering, Crux Deliver, which expands its platform to help data suppliers improve their delivery capabilities.
Crux says this turnkey, managed service provides powerful technology capabilities to support delivery expansion for suppliers at a fraction of the cost of developing their own infrastructure.
“From exchanges to alternative data providers, suppliers need to rely on a platform to deliver data quickly and at
Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a specialist in compliance, risk and infrastructure solutions for equity, options and futures trading, has unveiled a new offering of digital asset trading capabilities through a partnership with Voyager Digital.The Sterling Crypto Widget gives traders the ability to buy, sell and trade cryptocurrencies, with the widgets fully integrated into the Sterling Trader Pro and Sterling Trader Web & Mobile platforms. The widget provides market intelligence, including prices, positions, order lists, charts, asset meta-data and crypto news.
“As more investors are seeking exposure to the digital asset class, we are excited to officially add a cryptocurrency
Traders using Deutsche Börse’s Xetra can now leverage ultra-low latency colocation connections as fast as 5-85 nanoseconds via Transaction Network Services’ (TNS) innovative TNSXpress Layer 1 solution.TNS is offering a combination of managed hosting, colocation and connectivity options which utilise the TNSXpress Layer 1 single hop architecture that is up to 10 times faster than traditional Layer 3 architectures. This development also allows TNS to provide the Xetra Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) feed, in addition to the market by price feed it offered previously.
“We’re delighted to be building on our relationship with Deutsche Börse by introducing these
As the global economy slowly emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, conditions could be set for a weaker US dollar, in turn strengthening emerging market equities, according to new research by analysts at Man Group.
