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Gen II Fund Services (Gen II), an independent fund administrator in the alternative investment space, has selected NTT Ltd as its managed cloud services provider.
Bloomberg has expanded its coverage of cryptocurrency data on the Bloomberg Terminal to include the top 50 crypto assets, including bitcoin, ether, binance coin, XRP, solana and more.
Clients can now monitor intraday pricing for an expanded universe of cryptos, indices and futures contracts in real-time for faster, data-driven investment decisions.
Bloomberg takes a data-driven approach to selecting the cryptocurrency data to include on the Bloomberg Terminal and ensures that approach evolves along with the crypto markets. The company has developed a rigorous vetting model, available to view on the Bloomberg Terminal, that takes into account its institutional client
FundRock Distribution, an independent UCITS management company and AIFM investment fund manager has opened a new office in Amsterdam.
ETC Group, Europe’s leading specialist provider of institutional-grade, digital asset-backed securities, has appointed Enigma Securities, a full-service international financial services firm for digital assets liquidity and advisory, as an Authorised Participant.
ETC Group has an ongoing process to identify and add to its range of liquidity partners, to constantly build on trading quality for its product suite. Enigma Securities will facilitate note share creation and redemption process for ETC Group’s products, leveraging its existing operational and regulatory infrastructure in cryptocurrency securities.
BlockFills, a global digital asset financial services, technology and trading firm, is to list cryptocurrency derivatives products from CME Group on its trading ecosystems.
The new offering will solve a crucial market access problem for institutions and professional traders, enabling these groups to benefit from margin efficiencies of trading cryptocurrency derivatives from CME Group alongside spot crypto and other digital instruments, thereby allowing use of their available margin across one master account.
BlockFills customers can expect trading to be unveiled via beta form in the third quarter (Q3) of 2022. The trading offering will then be available for global
Jewel Bank, a banking platform for the digital asset economy, has received approval from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) for its combined full bank license and digital asset business (DABA) license.
Jewel Bank is Bermuda’s first new bank in over twenty years and first digital asset bank. Jewel’s services address the core banking, payments, and settlement needs of many of the world’s largest global digital asset firms and exchanges, via API or web. As a full license Bermudian bank, Jewel Bank will service digital asset firms (B2B) around the world in any non-sanctioned jurisdiction, as well as the US.
Umbria Network has joined the Polygon Ecosystem DAO’s “Polygon Village,” an initiative designed to assist developers in growing their projects.
Following an initial development grant from Polygon in early 2021, the latest collaboration will see Polygon Village bolstering Umbria’s marketing efforts to take the project to the next level. With the protocol’s Narni bridge having cemented its position as one of the the fastest, cheapest liquidity bridges between the Ethereum and Polygon networks, Umbria’s next focus is promoting its Bridge Widget V2 to large-scale projects built on Polygon such as QuickSwap.
Integration of the widget provides a partner project’s
Windward Management LP, a Miami-based hedge fund management firm, has launched its operations with SS&C Technologies’ front-to-back office solution.
SS&C will provide fund administration, order and execution management, investor relations, compliance and regulatory services.
Windward Management LP, run by Marc Chalfin (CIO), uses a deep, fundamental, value with a catalyst approach, making concentrated long and short equity investments where there are significantly skewed and asymmetric risks/rewards. In addition, SS&C will support fund and investor accounting, FATCA and CRS compliance and Form 13-F filings.
Trading Technologies International (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, and Talos, a provider of institutional digital asset trading technology, have partnered to substantially and rapidly broaden TT’s cryptocurrency offering on a global basis by leveraging the Talos infrastructure and market connectivity from directly within the TT platform.
The agreement represents the first major strategic partnership propelling TT’s expansion into multiple asset classes, including cryptocurrencies, and provides a significant opportunity for TT’s global customer base to access Talos’ extensive, market-leading cryptocurrency trading solutions.
Announced at the International Derivatives Expo (IDX) in London, the first
ED&F Man Capital Markets’ OptionsLive, a trading application for Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Interest Rate Options, has released Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) Options Trading algos and analytics for institutional clients including, banks, hedge funds, FCM’s and asset managers.
The addition means OptionsLive is one of the first movers in the industry to provide algos and analytics around SOFR Options Trading as the market transitions away from US dollar LIBOR-linked futures and options, before they are phased out in mid-2023.
OptionsLive gives traders and brokers the entire suite of CME Interest Rate Futures, including Treasuries, Eurodollars and now SOFR,
