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London-based asset management consultancy MJ Hudson is to acquire the Jersey administrator, Anglo Saxon Trust (AST), subject to Jersey Financial Services Commission regulatory approval and certain other conditions.
AST is an established provider of company and trust formation, registrar and administration services and is regulated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission.
The acquisition follows the purchase by MJ Hudson of the Dutch ESG business of Spring Associates in July and US/UK benchmarking and analytics business Amaces at the end of 2018. It adds to MJ Hudson’s existing operations in Jersey and helps consolidate a growing pan-Channel Islands business for
Cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer has launched the bitFlyer app across Europe and the USA. The app, available for free on both iOS and Android, will allow users to buy and sell Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Monacoin (MONA) and Lisk (LSK).
The bitFlyer app aims to make it even easier for users to buy and sell, whilst still adhering to the same robust KYC and verification standards as the bitFlyer website.
Since 2014, bitFlyer has been trusted by millions across the globe as the most secure platform to easily buy and sell cryptocurrencies,
CryptoCompare, a specialist in digital asset data, has launched a real-time order book product which will enable professional and enterprise clients to create predictive analytics to monitor exchange trading in real-time and anticipate sudden changes across trading activity, asset pricing, cost of trading and liquidity.
CryptoCompare’s real-time order book feed offers streaming, standardised order book data for over 3,000 cryptocurrency pairs traded on the top tier spot exchanges, as defined by the CryptoCompare Exchange Benchmark. Spanning level 1 and level 2 order books, the feed includes top bid/asks and full depth, and can be filtered by exchange, pair and depth
BSO, an Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider for the financial services industry, is now providing connectivity solutions to Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, directly from the global BSO network.
BSO’s global Crypto Connect network provides specialist solutions for both institutional clients, who require the same high-quality access to Gemini as they do for other traditional asset class exchanges, as well as the demanding crypto community, who equally require nimbleness, high availability and a high performance hybrid network. BSO delivers guaranteed latency on layer 2 backbone with high security to ensure that current and future business needs are catered
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has launched its latest ultra-low latency Ticker Plant Appliance for US Equities.
In partnership with Enyx, a developer and provider of ultra-low latency technologies and solutions for the financial industry, Vela has integrated Enyx’s nxFeed FPGA card into the appliance to provide a step-change in capacity and performance on the smallest of footprints.
Vela’s latest FPGA-enabled Ticker Plant Appliance leverages a hybrid model with Enyx nxFeed handling the decoding, line arbitration, filtering, and full order management & book building in its FPGA card and
Straits Financial Group ahas partnered with Integral to deploy new eFX workflow automation and trading technology to drive business growth.
Headquartered in Singapore, Straits Financial is a brokerage house that offers a full spectrum of derivatives and OTC products to its global client base. Committed to providing a bespoke service, the group needed an eFX platform that could meet the unique requirements of its customers.
Integral BankFX was selected by Straits Financial, who working in collaboration with Integral were able to design and deliver a bespoke solution to service existing customers and add new business.
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QuantHouse, the global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure products, has launched Historical Data on-Demand which is designed to dramatically speed up the research, development and backtesting phase of any trading strategy.
The research, development and backtesting phase is a critical but historically lengthy and onerous process. Market participants must identify data sources, align formats and code to those data sources, allocate storage capacity to download the necessary files and ultimately incorporate into their trading models to assess the viability of their trading strategy. By this time the market has
Proteus, an Indianapolis-based alternative investment technology firm, has partnered with institutional investment consulting firm Callan, add additional alternatives due diligence expertise to the Proteus platform and streamline the approval of funds available.
Eric Knauss, Proteus’ CEO, believes Callan’s research will strengthen the platform while providing a solid foundation for future innovations.
“We’re thrilled to partner with such a prestigious industry player as we embark on a new era for the alternatives investment space,” says Knauss. “It is exciting to have the industry leadership of the Callan team as we move forward.”
Proteus’ private investment platform offers a complete
CipherTrace, a provider of cryptocurrency intelligence and blockchain security, has launched an expanded cryptocurrency intelligence platform, which in addition to Bitcoin (BTC), allows customers to trace more than 700 tokens.
Combined, that comprises more than 87 pe rcent of the volume of the top 100 cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum (ETH), Tether, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Litecoin (LTC). CipherTrace’s increased monitoring support further includes the capability to trace several hundred ERC20 tokens.
“I would emphasise that this giant leap in blockchain visibility was no easy feat,” says Shannon Holland, CipherTrace CTO. “It has taken intense work and technological breakthroughs over the
Digital asset manager, CoinShares is to partner with Blockchain, a provider of cryptocurrency products and gold specialist MKS (Switzerland) have launched the DGLD network with more than USD20 million in gold digitised.
DGLD is a digital asset (token) representing allocated physical gold stored in a Swiss vault and tokenised with a side-chain built on the Bitcoin network. DGLD leverages the power and immutability of the Bitcoin blockchain to provide convenient purchasing of gold with the independence of physical gold ownership and the around-the-clock nature of digital assets.
Each DGLD token is the equivalent of 1/10 of a troy ounce
