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Cryptocurrency firm ThinkCoin, a specialist subsidiary of brokerage ThinkMarkets, has partnered with GMEX Group, a provider of exchange and post-trade solutions.
GMEX’s Fusion platform combines GMEX’s traditional centralised trading systems, which are currently live in multiple exchanges and post-trade venues, with the latest blockchain technology offering the best of both worlds for exchanges, clearing-houses and other institutions.
GMEX Fusion’s suite of capabilities will be combined with the TradeConnect multi-asset trading network, using ThinkCoin, the bespoke digital trading token unit of exchange.
GMEX Fusion will be integrated with TradeConnect’s mobile and web front ends to deliver options for both
New Bitcoin and cryptocurrency platform, Bitcoin.live, is now up and running, offering new ways for investors to learn about the cryptocurrency sector.
Focused on providing insight and educational tools from leading analysts within the industry, with the end of goal of helping subscribers to improve their trading portfolios, Bitcoin.Live will cater to all cryptocurrency traders, as well as those with little to no experience. The educational platform is now able to provide subscribers the opportunity to understand and learn tricks and tips on crypto trading.
Offering a wealth of information through a series of blog posts, interactive discussions, webinars,
Hugo Fund Services offers Swiss representation services to foreign fund managers wishing to market their fund(s) to qualified investors into the country. This follows changes to Swiss regulation in March 2015.
Qualified investors are defined under CISA (Collective Investment Scheme Act) as including pension funds, corporates and individuals with at least CHF5m in financial assets. Previously, only those funds that were registered for public offerings – which is now referred to as distribution to non-qualified investors – had to appoint a Swiss representative.
Although Hugo Fund Services was founded in 2014 to cater specifically to alternative fund managers, a joint
The world has become seemingly captivated by cryptocurrencies, driven by their rapid growth, both in terms of the number of cryptocurrencies and their prices. There are now over 1,500 cryptocurrencies with a combined market cap of USD500 billion. The rapid surge has meant that investors globally have started to pay attention.
At the same time, a consensus is emerging that the blockchain technology underpinning cryptocurrencies may be a game-changer for the global economy. The technology has started to be used by innovators in myriad fields looking for greater decentralisation.
That technology has come with its own financing model, the initial
Switzerland is currently witnessing an incredible wave of innovation in respect to crypto assets, with cantons like Zug leading the charge. This innovation is touching all aspects of business, with think tanks, regulators, law firms, incubation platforms, as well as hedge fund managers, all looking closely at how the underlying blockchain technology could lead to the digital transformation of global business.
As such, the following report will garner the views of a variety of Swiss-based actors on how they see the landscape evolving.
As reported by PwC, four of the largest initial coin offerings (ICOs) – which entrepreneurial start-ups use
ARQA Technologies is employing QuantHouse data and hosting services as it looks to develop new solutions for complex trading infrastructures in European markets.
SmartStream Technologies, a provider of financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions, has launched the next phase of its innovations team – which is working with financial institutions to optimise workflows, using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and blockchain technologies, in the areas of reconciliations, cash management and fees and expense management.
The new innovations team has been recruited to help design new AI and ML techniques to drive down costs and improve work flow efficiencies, taking advantage of advanced data analytics to re-engineer traditional work models across back office processing. Highly skilled members of the team include mathematicians, applied
The results of Linedata’s eighth global asset management survey reveal a shifting focus away from regulation, as companies prepare for a new wave of demands and opportunities afforded by disruptive technologies.
In recent years, adapting to new regulation was considered one of the main challenges for over half of respondents (51 per cent in 2017 and 52 per cent in 2016), but in the 2018 survey this has dropped to just over a third (37 per cent), with cutting costs (37 per cent), attracting new client assets (29 per cent), managing data (23 per cent) and managing risk (21 per
Taliance, a software and cloud provider for alternative asset managers, has launched The Lab, a series of apps designed to help clients work more efficiently.
The Lab is now available for free to current clients. Each app contains a fully downloadable model that allows companies to tackle a specific problem in the investment process and encourage innovation in investing.
At launch Taliance is releasing three apps, WALT, CURRENCIES and WATERFALL.
WALT (also known as WALE, WAULT or WALL) is used to calculate the risk of a property that is becoming vacant in a given year and is used
Asia Pacific Exchange (APEX), a new derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, based in Singapore, has gone live with core functions operating on technology from the Cinnober Group.
APEX’s independent clearinghouse, Asia Pacific Clear Pte Ltd, runs on Cinnober’s TRADExpress RealTime Clearing, a comprehensive real-time clearing system for OTC and exchange-traded markets. Irisium, a subsidiary within the Cinnober Group and leading provider of market surveillance and analytical software for financial organisations, provides APEX’s market surveillance system. Using Irisium’s platform, APEX will be able to identify in real time and investigate manipulative and suspicious trading behaviours.
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