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Whale Alert, a tracking service of major cryptocurrency transactions from and to exchanges, is now available on digital asset trading platform Bitfinex’s social network, Bitfinex Pulse. Whale Alert has established itself as a vital information source in the digital asset space as the world’s largest independent blockchain tracker. The addition of a Whale Alert channel into Bitfinex Pulse will further enhance the value of the exchange-based social network, designed to provide real-time, high quality market intelligence.
Whale Alert oversees the live tracking and analysis of millions of blockchain transactions each day, before converting them into a single standard format and storing
Please find below comments from Truss Edge and 2912 Advisors on the outsourcing challenges and solutions facing hedge funds during the current Covid-19 lockdown. Should you wish to speak to either Truss Edge or 2912 Advisors in New York, please contact Stuart Fieldhouse using the details below.
SS&C Technologies Holdings has launched Advent TransPort, a solution for customising custodial data for the company’s hedge fund and investment manager clients.The latest addition to Advent Data Solutions enables clients to apply custom rules and logic to standard custodial data files before loading into accounting platforms. TransPort streamlines operations by giving users the power to customise their ACD files and filter out any unwanted data. Firms are then able to focus on their unique data requirements and easily add new values. The service is deployed in the cloud, with SS&C Advent handling data normalisation for more than 800 data sources.
Apex Group, a global financial services provider, and Triple Point Liquidity (Triple Point), a New York City based financial technology startup, have partnered to deliver an enhanced Transfer Agency platform to clients.Apex delivers a single-source solution to asset managers, capital markets and private clients via 40-plus offices and 3,500 employees worldwide. The partnership with Triple Point further enhances this offering through the integration of its innovative registrar and transfer agency platform to better manage their liquidity through one integrated best-in-class platform.
The partnership will enable Apex clients to leverage secondary market experts and experience through Hedgebay Securities (Hedgebay), a FINRA
Doug King, CEO and CIO of RCMA Capital’s long-running Merchant Commodity Fund, has described Covid-19 as an “out-and-out demand shock” to oil markets that cannot be solved or cured by governments and central banks.
The recent crash in commodities markets hints at longer-term lower prices as the sector grapples with lower industrial demand for energy and a looming consumer-led recession, the veteran oil and commodities specialist added.
The Merchant Commodity Fund – which trades commodity derivative markets by combining a fundamental supply-and-demand analysis with real-world cash price information – has surged during recent oil volatility. It gained 31 per cent
Scorable has launched a second product to enhance the scope and accuracy of its credit risk analysis, helping fixed-income managers make better investment decisions. The company’s innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solution enables asset managers to monitor corporate bonds and credit spreads and to anticipate rating changes before they occur or markets price them in.
With Covid-19 and the oil price collapse causing massive turmoil in financial markets, careful risk management is more important than ever. More than $92 billion of corporate debt fell to high yield from investment grade in March, and an end to the downward spiral is not in
Digital asset trading platform Bitfinex has launched Bitfinex Pulse, a platform to enable users to exchange ideas, interact with each other and feel the pulse of the exchange’s growing community.
Exabel, an AI platform for fundamental asset managers, has won one of five places for fintechs on Engine, the Investment Association’s innovation hub designed to bring new tech to its investment management member firms.
After three years in pilot development, the firm has launched commercially and has secured a range of European clients, including Iguana Investments, an equity long/short fund, that integrates fundamental and quantitative investment analysis.
Exabel’s ‘quantamental’ technology enables discretionary managers to complement their fundamental strategies with more data-driven techniques, from simple augmentation of existing screening and optimisation of portfolios (often still on Excel), through to powerful AI
North Capital, a provider of technology and brokerage services for exempt securities offerings, is now authorised for secondary trading of unregistered securities, including digital asset securities, on its Alternative Trading System (ATS), the Public Private Execution Network (PPEX).
“We’re very happy to have obtained the regulatory approvals necessary to commence operations of the PPEX ATS,” says Jim Dowd, founder and CEO of North Capital. “The evolution of organized secondary markets will help bring liquidity and transparency to exempt securities investments. As the value of private securities has grown exponentially over recent years, issuers and investors have indicated that they are keen to see secondary
The National Bank of Greece (NBG) has joined European Commodity Clearing (ECC) as a new general clearing member. NBG obtained a general clearing licence and can now offer Euro denominated clearing services for all products and markets cleared by ECC.
The NBG, which is based in Athens, plays a key role in supporting the Greek economy as well as the economic and social transformation of the country. The bank offers a wide range of financial products and services that meet the needs of private and business customers, managing one fourth of the banking market in Greece.
NBG through the years
