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Carey Olsen’s corporate team in the Cayman Islands has advised the Ultraviolet Foundation on its token generation event with respect to its innovative research and data exchange blockchain platform, Ultraviolet Protocol (UVP).
The platform allows teams and individuals to create independent research applications enabling participants to pose research topics or request data and generate a single, trusted and verifiable answer by leveraging the wisdom of the crowd. These applications intend to develop a new system of knowledge creation outside of centralised institutions that provides many millions of people with the opportunity to earn money by contributing research and knowledge.
Borodich is a pioneer in the fields of innovation and blockchain, a venture investor with over 70 projects worldwide, and a digital media strategist. He is the founder of Universa Blockchain and VentureClub, Russia’s leading crowd investment platform and investor club.
Borodich is a former Marketing Director at Mail.ru Group. His key interests are Internet of Things, cloud computing, and smart cities. Borodich holds a PhD from the Moscow State University School of Economics and Mathematics, a Master’s Degree in Marketing from Russia’s National Research University Higher School of Economics, and an MBA from Stockholm School of Economics. He is an
A new partnership between GMEX Group (GMEX), an established provider of services in financial markets, and the Digital Asset Group (DAG) is aiming to bring together the practices of regulated banking, finance and exchanges with emerging innovation and a digital world enabled by Blockchain, Distributed Ledger and Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Sean Kiernan, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset Group and until recently a senior manager in London’s burgeoning wealth management sector, is taking his expertise in traditional regulated banking and combining it with the DeepTech expertise of Dmitry Kaminskiy, the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of DAG, an innovative entrepreneur
Italian government bond trading volumes and yields saw sharp increases on Tradeweb’s European Government Bond marketplace over the last few weeks.
Weekly average daily trading volume (ADV) in Italian debt set a new record at EUR3.9 billion two weeks ago and was EUR3.8 billion last week, as market volatility rose around political news in Italy. The record volume marked an increase of 75 per cent relative to average weekly volumes in 2018 so far.
The previous record weekly ADV for Italian debt was reached during the summer of 2011 at EUR 3.5bn, when Italy’s 10Y benchmark bond yield rose
IHS Markit’s MarkitSERV has expanded its global network of derivatives clearinghouses by connecting to Asigna, the clearinghouse for Mexican listed and standardised derivatives.
With the new connection, MarkitSERV provides standardised workflow and connectivity for matching, confirming and clearing Mexican peso TIIE 28 swaps. Asigna, Compensación y Liquidación began clearing OTC derivatives in 2016. Seven global and regional banks are clearing members at Asigna.
“With the connection between MarkitSERV and Asigna, we can offer our clients an efficient and secure channel to transmit confirmed TIIE swap data to our clearinghouse,” says Catalina Clavé Almeida CEO at Asigna. “It also helps global
TORA, a provider of a cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has partnered with Trax, the post-trade services and European market data division of MarketAxess, to help mutual clients meet MiFID II trade and transaction reporting requirements.
This development is the latest in a range of solutions that TORA offers to help clients satisfy MiFID II demands covering best execution, regulatory reporting and commission management.
The new reporting requirements under MiFID II are designed to improve the pre- and post-trade transparency of execution prices and the actions of those parties involved in transactions. For investment managers, trade reports,
Crypto Facilities, a cryptocurrency trading platform and index provider, has appointed Sui Chung (pictured), to lead its index and pricing products business.
Crypto Facilities offers individuals and institutions regulated, transparent and secure trading. The firm is also the provider of cryptocurrency indices, calculating the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate and Real Time Index that power the CME Group’s Bitcoin Futures, and the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate and Ether-Dollar Real Time Index. Financial institutions, trading firms and data providers globally use Crypto Facilities’ indices and underlying data to optimise their cryptocurrency trading activity.
Chung joins the firm from Euromoney
Public blockchain Hashgard, which is aiming to provide a one-stop solution for digital asset management, catering to both individual and institutional investors, has secured strategic investment from over 50 investment funds in the world, including Fenbushi Capital and BKFUND.
This broad ecosystem of investors and advisors is dedicated to establishing Hashgard as a leading blockchain in the digital asset management space.
Advisors include leading figures in the blockchain space – Bo Shen, founder of Fenbushi Capital; Shuo Bai, former chief engineer of Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Sunny Lu, co-founder of Vechain.
Hashgard is the first blockchain project initiated and managed by
The Swiss exchange has launched two new order types – Limit Plus and an enhanced Iceberg order, Iceberg Plus – which provide participants with even more flexibility and efficiency to trade successfully in today’s market.
Their introduction underlines the commitment of SIX to cater to the needs of its clients and to broaden its Exchange Services portfolio, as well as to increase the liquidity and quality of the home market for Swiss securities.
Both new Plus order types allow participants to simultaneously access the lit book and SwissAtMid, the non-displayed liquidity pool of the Swiss exchange. This dual representation offers
XTRD.io, a company that is developing a set of technologies that will allow institutional investors to trade cryptocurrencies, has joined the FIX Trading Community, an international organisation aimed towards fostering the interoperability of global financial markets.
By joining FIX, which is mostly made up of traditional financial companies, XTRD looks to work alongside global financial organisations to develop universal standards for their own FIX protocols that will integrate with cryptocurrency markets. The company also looks to act as an ambassador for onboarding traditional financial players into the world of cryptocurrencies.
The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic
