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AMSYS Capital has launched its first Digital Asset Fund, an actively-managed fund designed to hedge against the volatility of the crypto-currency market.
AMSYS says the fund will leverage the ecosystem of its advisory companies – Amsys Innovative Solutions (a 15 year old IT services company), Amsys Blockchain (a blockchain development and advisory company), and AMCHART (a blockchain company striving to put health records on the blockchain) – to better understand and trade cryptocurrency markets.
The investment objective of the fund is to responsibly invest in a volatile market and gain capital appreciation and maximise absolute returns by offering investors
BeQuant has launched a new stablecoin, STASIS EUR which will be listed on its global cryptocurrency exchange. The launch aims to allow safe investing for European institutional investors in a reliable asset.
Through its listing on BeQuant, STASIS EUR will be able to reach a wider audience of investors and increase its presence as a leading cryptocurrency in the market.
As a stablecoin, STASIS EURS will offer users the benefits of a traditional fiat currency in a tokenised format. Its compatibility with traditional financial systems allows professional investors to access the cryptocurrency market in a similar way to how they
AlphaBot has launched a new weekly report spotlighting the top 10 best performing crypto currencies.
The move follows AlphaBot’s announcement of the addition of crypto currency performance data and analysis tools to the AlphaBot platform, enabling investors for the first time to compare, portfolio build, and compile reports on more than 1,600 crypto currencies and tokens. The new report draws from this data and analysis and provides perspective not available anywhere else.
“Tracking performance leaders in the fast-moving crypto currency market has never been easy – until now and until AlphaBot,” says Dmitri Alexeev (pictured), AlphaBot Chief Executive Officer.
DAOstack’s native token GEN is to list on Liquid, a newly-launched cryptocurrency exchange by Quoine, starting on 9 October. GEN-ETH, GEN-BTC, and GEN-QASH trading pairs will be available to start, with GEN-fiat trading pairs available in the near future.
DAOstack is designed to be a kind of WordPress for decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), a new type of Web3-native organisation that allows like-minded communities to act on shared goals or values without depending on concentrated power centres. The GEN token will soon link a network of DAOs built for a variety of purposes on the DAOstack platform. DAOs using the GEN prediction
Crystal Financial Institutions, a division of Alliant Insurance Services, has launched a new cyber solution specially tailored to hedge funds that addresses numerous aspects of cyber risk management, including security management, insurance, crisis management and legal support.
Cyber Risk 360° provides powerful coverage for modern risks. It includes a cyber insurance policy that has an available coverage extension for fee income related to unplanned redemptions. As one of the industry’s first solutions to offer this unique extension, it allows fund managers to recoup lost management fee income attributed to a cyber breach event. Other features of Cyber Risk 360° include
AMX, an open architecture marketplace for the buying and selling of asset management services, has launched Magnetar Capital (Magnetar) and Lomas Capital Management (Lomas) onto the platform.
These additions bring AMX’s total offering to 17 funds – providing investors with access to a wide range of strategies and asset classes.
Willis Towers Watson worked closely with Magnetar to ensure that its Passive Risk Arbitrage strategy would be implemented in a manner attractive to clients, providing the opportunity to gain exposure to the merger arbitrage premium in the market. Magnetar has onboarded over USD900 million onto AMX.
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Opus Fund Services has launched Opus JET, a new net asset value (NAV) generating system which leverages smart automation to process all accounting entries for the preparation of NAV.
Using proprietary technologies previously implemented across its Shared Service teams to retrieve data from multiple external sources, JET normalise the information into tens of thousands of accounting entries per month.
JET also facilitates the review of accounting entries, allocations, and fee calculations on an exception’s basis, directly within an enterprise business platform. This allows Opus to standardise hands-free processing, in turn reducing risk and saving time.
Opus says that
Liquidnet’s global institutional trading network has announced that its global buy-side community of more than 930 member firms can now trade Brazilian equities anonymously through its platform.
The launch comes amid significant institutional interest in the Brazilian market, and emerging markets in general.
The addition of Brazil brings Liquidnet’s global reach to 46 equity markets worldwide and, now, six continents.
“Over the past few years, we’ve focused our expansion efforts on emerging markets around the world, including the launches of India, Taiwan and Pakistan,” says Brennan Warble, Head of Americas at Liquidnet. “The introduction of Brazil as
Caspian, a joint venture between institutional trading software provider TORA and blockchain advisory firm Kenetic, which is designed to bring institutional grade trade order, execution, compliance and portfolio risk management features to the crypto world, is to integrate with Coinbase to drive institutional participation in crypto currencies.
The new collaboration will enable professional investors to leverage Caspian’s full-stack of crypto trading tools across the Coinbase digital currency trading platform.
David Tattan, (pictured), is Head of European Business Development at Caspian and TORA. “The rollout of the Caspian crypto trading and portfolio management system means that, as crypto currencies increasingly become part of the investment
AcadiaSoft Inc, a provider of risk and collateral management services for the non-cleared derivatives community, has successfully onboarded all firms in-scope for Phase 3 of the five-year Initial Margin (IM) rollout onto the AcadiaSoft Hub, including the first buy-side firm to be subject to the rules.
AcadiaSoft has now successfully integrated all IM phase 1, 2 and 3 firms to its AcadiaSoft Hub platform and services.
Eight counterparty groups are in-scope for the Phase 3 of the regulatory framework established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). All of the
