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Baanx.com, an emerging Cryptobank network focused on offering fiat and crypto mobile banking services for the blockchain era, has agreed a USD2 million investment deal with LDJ Cayman Fund as part of its current Token Pre-Sale for qualified, accredited institutions and individuals.
David Drake, Principal of LDJ Cayman Fund Ltd and Founder and Chairman of LDJ Capital, is a highly respected figure within the blockchain industry with a track record of extremely successful prior investments.
LDJ Cayman Fund, a USD200 million fund focused on cryptocurrency, mining, and ICO acquisitions, works with global family offices seeking exposure to the Fund’s three-prong investment
Reality Shares has rebranded as Blockforce Capital following the addition of a cryptocurrency investment platform, Onramp, and a blockchain-focused hedge fund unit to its existing ETF business.
Leading the firm’s expansion is a diverse set of professionals with experience in finance, theoretical physics and computational astrophysics, as well as an advisory board armed with highly regarded leaders in the blockchain and cryptocurrency markets. The board’s collective expertise was instrumental in Reality Shares’ debut of the world’s first blockchain ecosystem ETF and first China-specific blockchain ETF. Reality Shares, which originally launched in 2012, also offers a family of dividend growth ETFs.
The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association (PBHFA) has formed a strategic partnership with international real estate firm Engel & Volkers/Arthur J Martens.
The team at Arthur J Martens has a long history of serving the real estate needs of Palm Beach Counties’ leaders and their families. Clients include Celine Dion, and the current HUD Secretary Dr Ben Carson.
PBHFA Founder David Goodboy says: “The PBHFA only forms strategic partnerships with firms proven to have the utmost integrity and experience in their chosen niche. Arthur J Martens LLC/ Engel & Volkers with their deep local knowledge of the ultra-high-end market combined with
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has recorded the first trade in the new liquid milk future. The exchange transaction covered a volume of 25,000 kilograms traded at the price of EUR 36.50/100 kg for the October 2018 expiry.
The liquid milk future launched by EEX on 15 August 2018 complements the product portfolio on the dairy derivatives market of the exchange. EEX is the first exchange in Europe to offer a liquid milk contract for trading. “The new product is an attractive addition to risk management in the dairy market, as it allows our customers even more precise hedging against price
SharesPost, a provider of liquidity solutions to the private growth asset class, has partnered with Securitize, an end-to-end technology platform for tokenising any asset, to enable security token issuers to list on the SharesPost platform.
The partnership will help both investors and security token issuers by providing additional liquidity and accessibility to the growing global digital asset marketplace.
“We’re excited to partner with a robust and well-established marketplace for digital securities like SharesPost,” says Carlos Domingo, CEO of Securitize. “We continue to see rapid adoption of our Digital Securities Protocol across the globe and welcome further partnerships.”
Through this partnership, Securitize’s
Koger, a global financial services technology company, has launched an open-source client portal for financial institutions, asset managers, and fund administrators that works in tandem with the systems they already have in place.
“With our technology, financial firms don’t have to build their own client-facing portal. We provide the code and firms can use it as an overlay with their existing systems,” says Ras Sipko, Koger’s Chief Operating Officer.
The portal interfaces with all systems and offers complete functionality with full operational transparency. It’s a flexible solution that financial firms can deploy with their current technology.
“You no longer
StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has made two new senior appointments and announced a new divisional structure for its Canadian operations.
In alignment with the Group’s strategic objectives, with a formal go-live date of 1 January 2019, StatPro will begin to operate across three divisions, StatPro Revolution, Source: StatPro, and StatPro Infovest. The Revolution division will focus on cloud-based performance and risk analytics platform. Source: StatPro will focus on market data and index services, and Infovest will focus on investment data management solutions.
Source: StatPro operates globally from
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has partnered with CoinMarketCap to provide cryptocurrency data via Vela’s Market Data Feed service, SuperFeed.
The partnership will provide Vela’s institutional client base with normalised access to the rapidly expanding list of more than 1,800 cryptocurrency coins and tokens supported by CoinMarketCap. Vela will integrate CoinMarketCap’s professional API into its streaming market data feed, SuperFeed, to enable institutions, including broker-dealers, banks, and other retail firms, to access CoinMarketCap’s world-leading cryptocurrency data alongside more traditional market data sources.
Vela’s SuperFeed provides low-latency, normalised data without
Following extensive consultations with industry which began earlier this year in May, ending 27 July, the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), has published its Industry Consultation Report, August 2018, which comprehensively captures industry feedback, and documents a significant call for the DSB to create additional use cases for ISINs on OTC Derivatives.
As well as industry calls for additional use cases for ISINs, as a direct result of consultations, the DSB will also be implementing changes to the DSB Product Committee, to ensure for even broader industry participation and engagement. These changes will be complemented by further improved service levels, which
TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has secured a strategic investment from Citi.
Citi joins existing shareholders, Illuminate Financial, Main Incubator (part of Commerzbank) and The FinLab.
TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API. TransFICC enables financial institutions to access their required eTrading venues, while streamlining technology requirements and reducing operational costs.
In addition, TransFICC has joined Citi’s Innovation Lab in London, the first external company to do so. Launched in February 2018, the London Innovation Lab
