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Blockchain technology company Currency.com has launched a new feature on its tokenised securities trading platform, which for the first time will enable users to trade and invest in tokenised government bonds using fiat money, bitcoin (BTC) or ethereum (ETH).
Currency.com has issued a tokenised version of Belarusian government bonds and plans to include additional tokenised government and corporate bonds over time. Thanks to this new feature, Currency.com users will be able to invest their cryptocurrency holdings in an entirely new, differentiated asset class that presents the opportunity to hedge and diversify their portfolios through fixed-income instruments with potentially lower risk
McKay Brothers and Quincy Data say they have connected the largest US equity exchanges at the lowest latency. The new services link equity exchanges in Mahwah, Carteret and Secaucus the New Jersey Equity Triangle.
McKay’s network is currently offering two-way market data and private bandwidth services between Mahwah and Carteret as well as Mahwah and Secaucus. The company will have one-way service from Carteret to Secaucus within days and expects two-way service in the third quarter.
“It has been nearly impossible for firms to obtain the timeliest market data between the largest US stock exchanges,” saus McKay and Quincy co-founder
After the success of its initial Gaining the Edge-Hedge Fund Educational Webinars, Agecroft Partners has announced that it is to run the series monthly.
“When we first launched the webinar series, we were very excited about the technology and enhanced user experience, which is significantly better than a podcast or conference call, but were unsure how many people would participate. After our first two episodes we have had over a thousand registrations from 24 countries, including many of the largest pension funds, endowments and foundations in the world. As a result we have decided to make it a monthly series”
Mitrade Global, a Melbourne-based online CFD trading broker, has launched a proprietary trading platform for global investors, both seasoned and amateur, to trade nearly 100 different markets of contract-for-difference (CFD) products – including forex, indices, commodities and the trending cryptocurrencies.
“Mitrade is engineered to simplify trading,” says Laura Lin, the Chief Executive Officer at Mitrade Global, “We understand traders’ need for a clear and easy-to-operate trading platform instead of boasting powerful functions but having an ambiguous interface. This is especially true when it comes to CFD trading.”
Developed by a team of finance and technology experts, the platform contains all
Pico, an infrastructure, connectivity, data and cloud technology provider to the global financial services community, has launched a new colocation facility and direct connectivity to the Hosting Services Data Centre of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX).
HKEX is one of the world’s major exchange groups, and operates a range of equities, commodities, fixed income and currency markets. HKEX is the world’s leading IPO market and, as Hong Kong’s only securities and derivatives exchange, is uniquely positioned to offer regional and international investors access to Asia’s most vibrant markets.
HKEX is also the global leader in metals trading through
RCM-X, the trading technology subsidiary of RCM Alternatives, is to incorporate and Social Market Analytics’ (SMA) Cryptocurrency Data Feed into the logic of its advanced order types and technologies.
The SMA Cryptocurrency Sentiment Feed will offer traders a first-of-its-kind tool for including social media sentiment data in their trading strategies and logic, allowing RCM-X advanced automated execution algorithms to anticipate potential market impacts driven by public media platforms.
Back in 2011, the RCM-X team was one of the first groups to write an adaptor to take SMA’s sentiment data into Strategy Studio for US Equities, and the extension into crypto
One-year-old startup the Diamond Standard Co has launched the world’s first fungible diamond commodity product – a universal asset to secure any digital transaction.
“Diamonds are a valuable natural resource, but unusable by institutional investors. Unlike gold and platinum, each diamond is different, so price is negotiable,” explains Cormac Kinney, founder and CEO of Diamond Standard Co. “We created a diamond commodity by grouping sets of diamonds in a fair and transparent way. The sets are fungible, and the diamonds are independently certified, and the key is that they are sourced through a regulated exchange, with market-driven price discovery.”
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Global regulatory compliance firm Optima Partners as appointed private equity and hedge fund adviser David Gold as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).
“Hiring David represents a significant investment in Optima’s growth,” says Optima Partners CEO Jonathan Saxton. “His role will ensure the consistent delivery of the high level of advice and service to all of our clients, as well as the continued robust growth of our firm.”
Gold says: “I am looking forward to working with our global colleagues to help Optima broaden its market leadership and drive successful outcomes for its clients, employees and other stakeholders.”
Ideal Prediction, an independent trading analysis and data science company for capital markets, has added Natural Language Processing (NLP) to its automated analytics services.
By incorporating NLP with machine learning, Ideal Prediction’s service empowers clients to create and visualize new analytical graphs in real-time with no coding knowledge.
Prior to NLP, all potential cases required programming, offering only a prescriptive set of limited analytics. By adding NLP, Ideal Prediction enables clients to visualise and analyse calculations beyond those available in an out-of-the-box user interface (UI). NLP provides a flexible structure, with which clients can define for themselves what they want
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the crypto-asset industry, has launched with the support of a USD6 million se round led by Distributed Global, Digital Currency Group, Morgan Creek, Galaxy Digital, Jump Capital, CMT Digital, and Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Joshua Brown, among others.
Digital Assets Data will now build out its crypto data platform and deliver institutional-grade information and insights to a broad customer base, including crypto hedge funds, family offices, and asset management research firms. The platform, launched in March, helps clients compound their knowledge about the digital asset space and build any
