Solutions
During 2018 UMB Fund Services continued to see growth in liquid alternatives and was able to further solidify its position as a leading administrator for registered alternative products. Over the course of the year the firm successfully partnered with clients to bring to the marketplace complex and innovative registered products, such as unlisted closed-end funds (also known as interval or tender-offer funds), as interest in these products continues to grow.
As a well-established asset servicing business, UMB Fund Services allows clients to benefit from the financial strength and service breadth of a large financial services organisation, while taking advantage of
The Xena Exchange platform for digital assets trading is ready to launch the first-ever leveraged cryptocurrency-settled derivative contract for the GRAM token on 12 March.
This is a significant step towards the liquidity of GRAM, as Telegram TON project investors will be able to trade the derivative contracts before the GRAM tokens are actually issued.
The Telegram TON blockchain project has become one of the most successful ICOs of 2018, raising USD1.7 billion from private investors and leaving those who missed the token sale waiting for GRAM to enter the exchanges. The launch of the derivative contracts on the
Exactpro, a provider of quality assurance (QA) services for market infrastructures, has completed a review of testing processes for the NextGen Post Trade Programme that is underway at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) and delivered a set of test strategy recommendations for Phase 1 of the programme.
The NextGen Post Trade Programme will help strengthen HKEX’s competitive advantages amid a rapidly changing business, technology and regulatory environment. With this programme, HKEX is undertaking a comprehensive upgrade of its post-trade infrastructure across all of its business processes and systems. The revitalisation of HKEX post-trade infrastructure is a multi-year programme
KRM22, a technology and software investment company with a focus on risk management in capital markets, has launched the Enterprise Risk Cockpit, a real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms.
The Enterprise Risk Cockpit allows firms to eliminate cumbersome spreadsheets, improving data accuracy and provides actionable insights on enterprise risk.
Enterprise risk management typically requires high manual processing, making it challenging for firms to obtain a clear real-time view of events and their impact. By automating these time-consuming activities firms can gain actionable insights on risk, allowing better informed decision making.
KRM22 is launching the Enterprise
Amun AG, a Swiss fintech aiming to facilitate access to crypto-asset investments, has completed its first funding round, bringing on board a number of experienced industry figures including Adam Draper, Founder of Boost VC, Graham Tuckwell, Founder of ETFS Capital, Greg Kidd, Co-Founder Hard Yaka, as well as four family offices.
Amun is a technology platform for creating crypto indices and issuing crypto products, in addition to listing, settling, and custody of physically-backed crypto products on public exchanges. Amun listed HODL, the world’s first physically backed ETP (exchange traded product) based on five leading cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, BTC Cash, XRP
The Small Exchange, a new futures exchange focussed on retail customers, is to adopt Eventus Systems’ real-time market surveillance system. The marketplace is deploying the cloud-based version of the Validus platform for its comprehensive surveillance activities.
Eventus CEO Travis Schwab (pictured), says: “We’re very excited to work with the Small Exchange and to play a vital role in the infrastructure underlying the exchange’s operations when it launches. The team behind the Small Exchange is one of the best in the business, and we couldn’t be happier to partner up in this effort. Increasingly exchanges and alternative marketplaces – across a broad
CME Group is aiming to make equity index futures trading more accessible to active traders through the launch of Micro E-mini futures on the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial Average indexes.
The new Micro E-mini contracts will be one-tenth the size of CME Group’s existing E-mini futures on the respective equity indexes. They will be available for trading in May 2019.
“Futures trading has been growing in popularity for active traders all over the world,” says Tim McCourt (pictured), CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products. “The smaller contract size of
OKEx, a Malta-based digital asset exchange, is to support the Theta Network (THETA) mainnet upgrade, as well as the Theta Fuel (TFUEL) airdrop, which is expected to happen at the Ethereum block height 7,356,258 (approximately 20:00 CET on 12 March).
“The live streaming market is exploding and its internet traffic is expected to jump over 80 per cent by 2020. We do see a lot of potential in THETA. What makes it outmatch other existing live streaming platforms is that it is decentralised and powered by users. I am happy that we are supporting such an innovative project,” says Andy
QuantHouse, an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, has launched real-time pricing feeds from The International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) for all QuantHouse members looking to trade real estate as an asset class.
IPSX is the world’s first regulated securities Exchange dedicated to trading companies owning single commercial real estate assets. The Exchange provides an alternative public capital markets option for real estate asset owners to progress an Initial Public Offering of their assets on a fully regulated market.
QuantHouse provides the technology to distribute IPSX pricing
Itiviti, a technology and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, has launched a unified products and solutions portfolio following its merger with Ullink.
Based on a modular, open architecture, Itiviti’s solution facilitates tailored, customised deployments, including integration with third parties. For customers, this means faster time-to-market and the ability to quickly adapt to business needs and regulatory change.
The new Connect and Trade solution portfolios define one of the industry’s most comprehensive offerings in capital markets technologies and services. Across these two pillars, Itiviti provides flexibility and breadth of functionality to serve any trading style across asset classes.
