Accelex, a SaaS platform for alternative investment data, has made two key additions to its global sales team – Simon Tang has joined the company as its new director of business development in North America, and Marco Loiacono as the new director of EMEA Sales, based in London. Each will be responsible for expanding and servicing Accelex’s growing client base of asset owners, asset servicers, fund of funds, secondaries investors and advisors in their respective regions.    Prior to joining Accelex, Tang spent nearly a decade as a director at CEPRES, a private markets data and analytics firm, where he

Mercari, which operates a licensed Australian Tier 1 wholesale financial derivatives exchange, has selected METACO, a provider of digital asset custody orchestration technology to complex, global financial institutions, to launch its institutional digital asset custody operations. Mercari is deploying its technology on IBM Cloud in order to leverage the confidential computing capabilities of IBM’s digital asset infrastructure. Mercari has been developing a growing suite of crypto-asset investment services. In January, it launched the Mercari DAR Crypto Reference Rates, the first local and robust AUD crypto-asset benchmarks for the Australian and Asia markets. To launch its institutional digital asset custody offering,

Man Group has selected Percona, a specialist in open source database software and services, to provide support for its critical applications that depend on MongoDB. Percona will provide Premium Support to Man Group’s Alpha Technology division, guaranteeing uptime for its core research and trading data applications. Man Alpha Technology, responsible for the infrastructure and systems facilitating investment decision-making at Man Group, will have access to Percona’s MongoDB subject matter experts to ask questions through consultative support. Man Group is also using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), an open source database observability, monitoring and management tool.

Digital token trading platform Bitfinex has launched a suite of new trading pairs for Ttther Mexican peso (MXNt), a stablecoin pegged to the Mexican peso and the fourth version of the world’s biggest stablecoin. The launch of MXNt marks tether’s entry into the Latin American market and is the fourth tether stablecoin to be made available on the platform, adding to tether tokens (USDt), tether euro (EURt) and the offshore tether Chinese yuan (CNHt). The following trading pairs will be available: BTC/MXNt, BTC/MXNt, MXNt/USD, MXNt/USDt and MXNt/EURt.

Berlin-based Swarm, a regulated multi-asset DeFi platform, has launched institutional-grade liquid staking tokens that can integrate into DeFi automated market maker (AMM) pools to generate additional yield in a protected environment. Liquid staking tokens for Solana Network’s native token SOL are the first to be made available with Eth 2.0, DOT and AVAX to follow.  By using the liquid staking token structure on Swarm, an investor is exposed to the value of the underlying asset, can earn yield from validator fees and trade in and out of their position at any time, instead of having assets idling.  The tokens can

Clarity AI, a Global sustainability tech platform Clarity AI’s sustainability data has been integrated into BlackRock’s Aladdin platform in preparation for the firm’s enterprise reporting for the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) framework. BlackRock will leverage Clarity AI capabilities, data, and expertise to facilitate efficient and accurate reporting on Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) indicators. PAI indicators are a set of specific ESG metrics mandated by the European Union as part of SFDR, which imposes granular sustainability disclosure obligations for asset managers and other financial market participants. Clarity AI’s SFDR coverage encompasses more than 49,000 companies, and its capabilities allow for

Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled trading infrastructure to the global capital markets, and Code Willing, a specialist in financial data management, have launched end-to-end data platform products Options Data Store and Quantify. Options Data Store offers traders and researchers the ability to “try and buy” ready-to-use datasets without sourcing and storing large datasets. Data Store removes the complexity of capturing, normalising, and storing market data, enabling users to focus on alpha generation. Utilising a user-friendly GUI, data is made available in multiple formats, including ID mapped using a proprietary multi-asset security master. The datasets are accompanied by information and

Euronext has launched a futures contract on the CAC 40 ESG index. The new contract, based on the ESG version of the French national benchmark index, provides institutional investors with an additional tool to contribute to the accelerating development of sustainable investment. Supported by BNP Paribas and Société Générale as market makers, firms that are strongly committed to the transition towards sustainable finance, the contract will enable market participants to manage and hedge ESG portfolios efficiently and in compliance with ESG principles, and to lower the cost of trading through the use of a futures contract. The new contract will

Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing, and reference data services, has launched an Irish Funds Data Service to further enhance its investment funds coverage. The Irish Funds Service covers more than 30,000 share class funds from over 200 fund management companies, providing comprehensive reference and corporate actions data. Users can rest assured that EDI covers all share classes in their portfolio. EDI’s data team collects, analyses, and publishes the data directly from the source, the fund management companies. Working in parallel, a separate in-house team of experts liaise with the fund management companies to

Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform accessible through digital token trading platform Bitfinex, has launched of perpetual contracts for Maker and Sandbox. MKRF0:USTF0 and SANDF0:USTF0 will go live on 30 May at 12.00pm CET and will offer users up to 100x leverage and will be settled in tether tokens (USDt).  Bitfinex Derivatives platform and products are only available in eligible jurisdictions, and are exclusive to verified users.