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Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, is now available in futures contracts on Bybit, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, and KuMEX, the derivatives trading platform of IDG-backed cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin.The launch of perpetual contracts on Bybit and KuMEX underlines USDt’s growing popularity as the most stable, liquid and trusted stablecoin. The USDt perpetual contracts will enable traders to hedge their positions by holding long and short positions simultaneously. This will provide traders with more flexibility in being able to manage their portfolios.
“I’m delighted to see that Tether USDt is once again the trusted choice
Amid extreme volatility and general uncertainty in global markets, BCS Global Markets is offering free access to its high-quality research on the Russian equity and bond markets both in Russian and English until 1 July.
Investors are divided over how their hedge fund allocations have performed during the recent market crash, a new industry survey has found.
Investment consultancy bfinance polled 260 investors – including pension funds, insurers, foundations and endowments and family offices – in 28 countries, with assets totalling more than USD2.5 trillion.
The snap poll – which quizzed investors on a range of asset classes including hedge funds, fixed income, multi-strategy and alternative risk premia – aimed to gauge investor satisfaction with strategy performance during this month’s stock market collapse following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Of the 52 per cent of survey participants who
Contracts for difference provider (CFD) CMC Markets has 17 new share baskets to its trading platform. Covering a wide range of topical industries, including gaming, banking and renewable energy, clients now have the ability to seamlessly gain exposure to trending sectors with a single trade.
The baskets each contain up to 50 stocks whose operations relate to a specific theme, with each constituent being given a tiered weighting. In order to efficiently maintain the configurations and ensure all corporate actions are handled appropriately, we are working with business information provider IHS Markit, a leading source of independent valuation services for exchange
Victor Argonov, senior analyst and crypto specialist at International Investment firm, EXANTE, believes, the cryptocurrencies could ultimately benefit from the current coronavirus crisis…We have recently seen some of the sharpest market crashes in history. From February 20 to mid-March, the key American indices have dropped by around 30 per cent, while the cryptocurrency and oil markets have dropped by more than 50 per cent. The crisis was mainly caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but the split among the OPEC+ countries that could not reach a consensus about decreasing the oil production rates was also another destabilising factor.
However, in spite
Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has added Steven Berns to the company’s Board of Directors, effective 3 April, 2020. An independent director, Berns will also chair the audit committee of the board.
Berns most recently served as Co-Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Shutterstock.
Martin Brand, Chairman of the Board, says: “We are pleased to have Steven joining Tradeweb’s Board of Directors. His deep financial expertise, in addition to his wide-ranging governance and operations experience in digital brands, makes him a valuable addition to the board. He also knows
Digital assets trading firm BiKi.com has listed ICON (ICX), a Top 40 CoinMarketCap project from Korea that boasts one of the largest communities in the entire blockchain space.This newly formed partnership with BiKi Exchange will see ICON expanding its reach outside of Korean markets and growing their exposure in Chinese markets, amongst other Asian markets.
On the partnership with BiKi Exchange, Min Kim, Co-founder of ICON states: “BiKi is a leading exchange in a very important market and we’re very excited to partner with them as we expand our growing ecosystem. We look forward to collaborating significantly as we increase
Hedge fund strategies of all stripes have posted sizeable losses so far this month as fears over the coronavirus outbreak ripped through global markets, new data from Hedge Fund Research shows.
The HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, which takes the temperature of the overall global hedge fund industry, has lost 7.76 per cent so far in March.
The index, which comprises performance of all eligible hedge fund strategies within four principal strategies (equity hedge, event driven, macro/CTA, and relative value arbitrage), is now down 8.72 per cent since the start of 2020, according to HFR data.
Global equities posted steep
RIMES, a specialist in data management and RegTech solutions, and SOTERIA, a real-time communication compliance and surveillance solution, have completed an initial product integration phase as they look to provide financial firms with a comprehensive monitoring solution to facilitate compliance with anti-market manipulation and insider dealing rules and regulations.Adhering to growing regulations and evolving regulatory surveillance capabilities is technically complex and both data- and resource-intensive. The new approach from RIMES and SOTERIA aims to solve these issues by providing data-driven, market manipulation and insider dealing detection capabilities.
Within RIMES’ RegFocus Market Surveillance (RFMS) service, users can identify defined suspicious
An extended period of stress, brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, may put downward pressure on European CLO ratings, according to a new report by S&P Global Ratings.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
