Onramp Invest, a crypto management solution providing access to crypto assets for registered investment advisors, is to join the Bosonic Network, a decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI) business. This latest addition to Bosonic’s growing institutional client base supports the Wealth segment, providing safety and transparency for their underlying clients in digital asset markets.    The Bosonic Network connects institutional clients to leading institutional-grade Digital Asset Custodians and Liquidity Partners, enabling secure access to the digital assets markets and delivering a market leading layer-2 blockchain for payment versus payment settlement which eliminates counterparty credit and settlement risk.   By joining the

Overbond, a provider of AI analytics and trade automation solutions for the global fixed income markets, has partnered with TMX Group, an operator of global markets and provider of market data and analytic solutions, to integrate CDS FIPS settlement-layer Canadian bond data into Overbond AI fixed income trading tools and analytics. This integration directly addresses the data challenges facing Canadian asset managers when they are pricing Canadian bond portfolios, structuring and rebalancing new portfolios, and seeking to construct and use pricing and liquidity time series. The Overbond-TMX partnership gives both Overbond and CDS FIPS users access to the deepest coverage

Citadel Securities the market-making firm set up by hedge fund boss Ken Griffin, is to launch its fixed income offering in Japan following the opening of a new office in Tokyo, according to a report by SWFI. The firm now has 15 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.  Following its recent registration as a Type 1 Financial Instruments Business Operator, Citadel Securities can now offer liquidity in US fixed income products, including US Treasuries and USD interest rate swaps, in the Japanese market. Operations are set to commence under the supervision of Japan’s Financial Services Agency as soon

Optiver has become a trading member on the Vienna Stock Exchange. The company is one of the leading market making institutions and operates globally with offices in Amsterdam, London, Austin, Chicago, Sydney, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore. Optiver was founded in 1986 in the Netherlands and has over 1,600 employees worldwide.    A total of 65 members, including 23 Austrian and 42 international banks and securities firms, are currently admitted to trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange. The top market participants in the first half of 2022 were: Morgan Stanley & Co (13.48%), JP Morgan SE (7.47%) ahead of BOFA Securities Europe SA (6.98%).

ED&F Man Capital Markets has assisted its customers and the CME in completing the first CME BTC/EUR and ETH/EUR futures block trades on market open, Sunday, 28 August. The regulated crypto derivatives markets continue to evolve rapidly and, with products such as these new Euro-denominated BTC and ETH futures, investors, traders, risk managers and others have expanded capacity to take on and manage crypto market exposures. The launch of these new CFTC regulated futures contracts is another positive signal that the crypto currency markets are gaining institutional acceptance.      CME’s BTC/EUR and ETH/EUR futures are cash settled and traded

Ebury, a global provider of transaction payment solutions, is increasing its presence in the alternative investment sector to meet growing demand for better, more focused services as an alternative to traditional banking providers.

LPA, a capital markets software and advisory firm, has enhanced its Contract Navigator solution offering through a partnership with OpenRisk Technologies (OpenRisk), a US-based specialist business solutions. The partnership will see LPA integrate OpenRisk micro-services into its new financial markets solution offering, Contract Navigator. Contract Navigator is a modular solution for financial institutions to improve the efficiency of a broad range of financial market agreements throughout their entire life cycle. The solution offers deal transparency through a high-impact digital interface, with its ultimate objective being the discontinuation of paper documents in Capital and Debt Markets.   The OpenRisk platform complements

Pragma a specialist in multi-asset execution technology, has released a new generation of Panorama, the firm’s algorithmic management system (AMS). Panorama 2.0 provides Pragma’s global client base with the next generation in algorithmic management, real-time transaction cost analysis (TCA), and full transparency across the life cycle of their algorithmic orders. It also provides clients with increased dynamic order performance and venue visualisations, customised alerting, and a high degree of transparency into their algorithmic execution as a result of its new and faster architecture. For clients working in partnership with Pragma to run A/B experiments with different algo logic and configurations,

Huobi Global, Huobi Group’s crypto asset trading platform under the Huobi Group, has launched a new Prime membership programme aimed at heightening users’ income-generating opportunities while reducing trading transaction costs. Unlike other competing membership programs, Prime is open to both retail traders and professional investors. Prime consists of twelve levels – from Prime0 to Prime11. Members will qualify for discounted transaction fees that could go as low as 0.0126% for spot trading, and enjoy rebates of up to 0.01% of the total transaction amount for derivatives trading. The launch of Prime signals an innovative move in the digital assets industry,