dHEDGE, a ‘one-stop interface for digital-asset management’, has launched Toros, an incubated protocol built for Polygon. Powered by dHEDGE, Toros aggregates the safest and most rewarding inflation-hedging strategies for Polygon users, in addition to yield and liquidity vaults. As part of dHEDGE’s “Moonlight” release, the full Toros launch accompanies new management and efficiency features, including 1inch and Aave V3 integrations on Optimism and flat management fee options. As rising inflation touches nearly every sector of public life, investors are looking to improve their yields with maximum ease, accessibility, and safety. Toros’ full launch offers investors automated strategies and structured products

Transaction Network Services (TNS) can now enable hedge funds to directly access market data from all US Equity Option Exchanges, providing reduced complexity and significant cost savings. This offering is achieved because of TNS’ mutualised exchange connections and status as a registered data vendor with all 16 Equity Option Exchanges in the US.     TNS has one of the fastest, commercially available fibre networks in the New York metro area. With complete access and control over routes, TNS’ dedicated operations teams ensure network optimization via a combination of high capacity, ultra-low-latency and maximum uptime, delivered via fully diverse circuits.

TS Imagine, a specialist in trading, portfolio and risk management solutions, has integrated its multi-asset EMS with Appital’s bookbuilding platform to provide buyside clients with greater access to liquidity. The TS Imagine EMS integration is a crucial step to developing the necessary market structures to bring Appital’s bookbuilding platform to equity capital markets participants. The announcement follows the recent Appital collaboration with executing brokers Instinet and Bernstein and in anticipation of Appital’s launch later this year. Appital gives buyside firms exposure to deal flow opportunities often in excess of multiple days ADV, including in highly illiquid, small and mid-cap stocks,

Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools, and insights, has launched Company Intelligence – the latest product in its private markets data offering. Company Intelligence helps investment teams and M&A professionals to streamline and elevate their top of the funnel deal activities, by providing them with accurate and comprehensive private market intelligence on investor-backed companies. More institutional investors are expected to enter the asset class in the coming years and to carve out dedicated allocations to diversify and scale their commitments. There are now 64% more institutional investors allocating to venture capital than there were in 2017, according to

JTC, a global professional services provider, has launched virtual Chief Sustainability Officer (vCSO), an new service to help clients achieve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) ambitions. The vCSO offering recognises that many organisations, from fund managers and corporates, to UHNWI and family offices, are struggling to navigate the rapidly evolving ESG landscape and in particular, specific ESG regulatory and reporting requirements.  vCSO allows clients to access the benefits of a professional Chief Sustainability Officer and associated team on a flexible, outsourced basis, reducing the associated overheads. This approach provides clients with the technical knowledge and support that they need

IDEG Asset Management Limited (IDEG), a professional digital asset manager, as launched the IDEG Terra Enhanced Tracker SP as part of its growing T-I-M-E-S product shelf of thematic digital asset funds. The launch marks the first-of-its-kind product to enter the market and follows closely the recent launch of its Ethereum Enhanced portfolio. The Terra Enhanced Tracker is IDEG’s first in a planned series of solutions that will offer professional and institutional investors a professionally managed and third party custodied, exposure to digital asset investments from bitcoin and ether into other categories, managed through IDEG’s rigorous compliance, risk and internal controls

Insig AI plc (AIM:INSG), a data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry, has signed a development contract to supply a centralised cloud-based data infrastructure to a London-based alternative investment manager with over $1 billion of assets  under management. Leveraging Insig AI’s proprietary data platform and tools will enable the client to take advantage of the speed and scale cloud computing offers while underpinning its longer-term machine learning strategy.  The contract value is £145,000 and is expected to be completed by 30 June 2022. Together with a number of smaller contracts billed this month, this contract

HE Justin Sun, Founder of TRON, has launched an all-new stablecoin on the TRON blockchain, USDD (or Decentralised USD). TRON DAO will partner with other blockchain industry leaders to establish USDD. It will leverage the power of mathematics and algorithms to achieve the overarching goal of financial freedom for all.  At the start, USDD will be issued as a TRC token on the TRON network. The TRON DAO Reserve will serve as a transparent mechanism to manage the reserves backing the USDD. USDD will not rely on any centraliaed institutions for redemption, management, and storage. Instead, it will achieve full

Four months after its acquisition of Toronto-based TickTrade Systems, smartTrade Technologies says the companies are now working together as one unified group, operating under the smartTrade name. The combined company delivers FX trading technologies to a global client base across Europe, North America and Asia. smartTrade is now releasing a combined LiquidityFX next-generation (LFX-NG) platform combining the best of both pre-existing solutions. The flexibility and agility of LFX-NG allows for tailored pricing and trading strategies to be developed and rolled out in a matter of months. This agile deployment is made possible by smartTrade’s in-house team of eFX experts supported

Standard Custody & Trust Company, an institutional-grade custody and settlement platform for digital assets, has been named the custodian for Blockchain.com and Altis Partner’s new institutional platform, Blockchain.com Asset Management (BCAM). Blockchain.com Asset Management will deliver a suite of institutional investment products, marrying the crypto trading infrastructure, research and security software services of Blockchain.com with the success of Altis Partners’ investment management. Standard Custody’s solution is highly-secure, regulated and insured. Led by a best-in-class team of cryptocurrency and financial services pioneers, Standard’s proprietary blockchain technology provides end-to-end encryption and distributed trust protocols for securing secret keys. The company’s New York