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The Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM) has published a Code of Conduct (Code) to promote integrity, fairness, and efficiency in digital asset markets.
All ADAM members plan to sign the Code in early 2020 and adhere to its principles, and its release marks a necessary step for the industry to lead the way in setting high standards of conduct. The Code is intended to inform market participants on best practices and to complement, not replace, existing regulation, part of a long-term effort to define and promote ethical conduct by all digital asset market participants.
Established with a collaborative and
Tassat, a provider of financial technologies and products for traditional and digital asset markets and Blockfills, a specialist in digital asset electronic market making, trading and prime brokerage, are partnering to introduce an institutional Trade at Settlement (TAS) product for spot bitcoin (XBT/USD).
This product, which is expected to be available for trading in mid-December, enables institutions to submit block orders in bitcoin at defined price spreads from the mid-market, at three specific times during each day: 15:00 Hong Kong Time, 15:00 Central European Time (Paris) and 15:30 Central Standard Time (Chicago).
TAS, widely used in derivatives markets for other
NextPrime, a provider of operational and capital efficiency to institutional participants in digital asset markets, has partnered with Asia-Pacific financial services group Crown Financial Services (CFS) to bring service banking, custodianship and multi-currency clearing and settlement solutions to the digital asset ecosystem worldwide.
CFS, a provider of money remittance, payment gateway, portfolio management, lending and investment services, already serves a number of exchanges. CFS will serve as a secure custody bank to NextPrime and aim to enable financial institutions and wholesale professional traders to easily trade digital assets at lower costs and less risk.
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The Anti Money Laundering (AML) service portfolio of Estera Law (Cayman), formerly U Law Limited, will be consolidated into Estera Trust (Cayman) Limited following the business affiliation relationship which was announced last month.
The expansion of AML services further extends Estera’s strategic capability in the Cayman Islands and adds AML compliance officer services, money laundering reporting officer services and deputy money laundering officer services with essential local expertise.
Estera Trust (Cayman) Limited has a dedicated team of professionals who are able to provide specialised AML services with specific knowledge of the Cayman Islands regulatory regime; the consolidation of AML
Prescient Fund Services (Ireland) Limited, an independent provider of globally competitive and flexible outsourced management company, platform and fund administration services, has converted two of its fund platforms from PLCs (Public Limited Companies) to ICAVs (Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles).
Prescient supports investment managers of Irish regulated and other traditional and alternative funds by providing the infrastructure and performing the key control functions that are required to help them to grow their businesses and meet their regulatory obligations.
The two umbrella platforms, one regulated as a UCITS and one regulated as a QIAIF (Qualified Investor Alternative Investment Fund), enable international investment
Janney Montgomery Scott, a full-service wealth management, capital markets, and asset management firm, is to utilise iCapital Network’s platform technology in a white-label solution to enhance the alternative investment capabilities on its platform.
Through the partnership, Janney’s Financial Advisors gain access to iCapital’s curated online menu of private equity and hedge fund offerings with the ability to seamlessly incorporate these investments into client portfolios. Within the fund menu, the iCapital Research and Due Diligence Team provides a high-quality array of diverse alternative investment offerings to help achieve desired client outcomes of growth, income, and portfolio diversification. iCapital will also offer
ExtractAlpha, a provider of unique alternative data sets and predictive models for institutional investors, has launched Insight, a comprehensive alternative data analytics solution for portfolio managers and analysts to understand their portfolio’s exposure to alternative data-driven factors.
Alternative data today plays a key role in the process of asset selection and allocation. Using Insight, portfolio managers and analysts can visualise their portfolio’s overall exposure and drill down into any stock to assess its exposure to ExtractAlpha’s alternative data factors and predictive models. It allows users to quickly uncover the drivers of stock prices and earnings; check the evolution of a
Caspian, a full-stack crypto trading and portfolio management platform for institutional investors and sophisticated traders, has partnered with Tagomi the leading global digital assets prime broker.
The two industry captains are set to shake up the crypto market with a new standard of crypto trading. The partnership will create the safest, most efficient and easy to access full end to end trading solution for institutional investors participating in crypto currency markets.
Launched in March 2018 Caspian was the first technology firm to provide a suite of institutional-grade trading solutions for crypto that include an integrated OEMS, PMS, algorithms and real-time
Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a provider of consulting services and system solutions, is launched Shingan AD, a new service providing institutional investors with Japanese alternative data and data analysis on 1 December 2019.
The use of alternative data in investment decision-making is growing rapidly. Sourcing, cleansing, and preparing large amount of data for analysis presents a big challenge for institutional investors who are looking for untapped alpha.
NRI’s new offering, Shingan AD, allows institutional investors to easily access Japanese alternative data. A wide range of alternative data collected from Japanese companies and data vendors is available, as well as data
Cryptocurrency futures exchange OKEx has launched USDT-Margined Futures, following a successful simulation beginning 5 November, 2019. The BTC/USDT Futures Contracts officially went live on 14 November, 2019.
Served as a virtual derivative product that is quoted and settled in digital token USDT, BTC/USDT contract has a face value of 0.0001 BTC. The available range of the leverage is 0.01-100x.Traders can long or short a position to profit from the increase or decline of a cryptocurrency’s price respectively. OKEx provides a wider derivative portfolio with a greater variety of underlying currencies and more comprehensive functionality to meet users’ trading requirements.
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