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Liquidity provider and prime brokerage CFH has joined the Gold-i Matrix NETwork, enabling its multi-asset liquidity to be available through Gold-i’s technology.
Sonnedix, a global independent solar power producer (IPP) has joined the European Energey Exchange (EEX) as a new trading participant. Sonnedix, currently managing over 1 GW of operational capacity across eight countries, has been admitted to trade all EEX power derivatives products.
Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, says: “This is a very exciting milestone for Sonnedix, as we become capable of hedging in a transparent way against the risk of future price changes, facilitating short to long-term portfolio optimization globally with shortened negotiation times, and reduced counterparty risks.”
Sonnedix is the first solar energy IPP to join EEX with a strong
Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, is pre-eminent among Ethereum-based stablecoins, amid a recent surge in market volatility and the inflation of foreign currencies against the US Dollar, according to research from The Block.The Block found that Tether (USDt) dominates weekly transaction volumes among Ethereum-based stablecoins, with its transaction volume market share roughly in line with its market capitalisation market share. USDt’s total market capitalisation has more than tripled from about USD2 billion in February 2019 to surpass USD7 billion.
“Tether is manifestly growing in popularity as the most liquid, stable and trusted stablecoin,”
Arrano Capital, the blockchain arm of Venture Smart Asia Limited, has launched Hong Kong’s first regulated virtual asset fund, which tracks the price of Bitcoin and provides Professional Investors with access to the crytocurrency through a traditional fund structure. Venture Smart Asia Limited, is licensed by the SFC to manage virtual asset funds.
“This fund comes at a pivotal time for Bitcoin. By bridging the gap between the regulated finance and virtual asset world, institutions can gain secure access to Bitcoin via a conventional fund structure,” says Arrano Chief Investment Officer Avaneesh Acquilla. “We worked in accordance with the SFC guidelines
Total global hedge fund capital fell below USD3.0 trillion in Q120 for the first time since 3Q 2016, as financial market volatility surged on uncertainty and increased risks driven by the global coronavirus pandemic. Hedge fund capital declined by USD366 billion to end the quarter at USD2.96 trillion, a steep decline from the prior quarter record of USD3.32 trillion, as reported today by HFR, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry, in the latest release of the HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report.
Investor outflows totalled an estimated USD33 billion in Q1,
BNP Paribas Securities Services and BlackRock Solutions have formed a strategic alliance to provide mutual clients with integrated investment management capabilities. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Pierre Andurand, the well-known head of commodities-focused fund manager Andurand Capital Management, is cautioning of “crazy losses” as oil markets continue to suffer unprecedented shocks, warning: “Be very careful out there.”
The London-based oil specialist, whose strategy has reportedly soared amid recent energy volatility, flagged up the potential impact of tumbling prices on oil ETFs in a series of tweets on Monday and Tuesday, after prices for the May futures contract on West Texas Intermediate – the US benchmark – collapsed into negative price territory for the first time ever.
“Wondering what would happen to USO and other Oil ETFs that
Early adoption of cloud technology has been key to Qunatile Technolgies’ success in maintaining the operation of its optimisation and compression services.
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Aquis Exchange, a subscription-based pan-European equities exchange, is implementing big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit to support market structure analytics used internally by the exchange and its clients.big xyt solutions capture, normalise, collate and store trade data at a granularity that has not previously been available in the market. By applying data science and advanced techniques to execution analytics, Liquidity Cockpit delivers a unique range of market overviews and individualised comparison reports to the team at Aquis Exchange.
Delivered through a custom API, it enables Aquis Exchange to query a vast data set which then can be personalised to its needs. All
With the closure of non-essential workplaces during the Covid-19 pandemic shaking up the way financial services companies do business, the remote working environment is raising an assortment of operational challenges for hedge fund firms, spanning communication technology, data and information security, and infrastructure vulnerability.
When the UK lockdown was announced last month and the hedge fund industry exited its Mayfair enclave, firms of all sizes and strategies implemented extensive contingency plans for home working in order to continue operations.
Man Group, the large London-headquartered publicly-traded hedge fund group which manages a range of discretionary, systematic and multi-manager strategies, had already
