19 Jan 2021
BTIG makes two senior hires in London
BTIG Limited has made two seniors hires, Neil Roberts and Matt Austin, in its Institutional Equities division. Roberts joins BTIG as an…
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RegEd acquires compliance technology business from NRS
RegEd has acquired the ComplianceMAX and FIRE Continuing Education businesses from National Regulatory Services (NRS), a provider of…
Moonstake partners with RockX
Moonstake has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based RockX to support the Polkadot ecosystem. RockX runs its own…
Gibraltar extends regulatory guidelines for digital asset exchanges
As warnings intensify about the need for regulation of digital assets across the UK and Europe, Gibraltar is adding to its already…
Bitcoin’s inefficiencies are creating arbitrage trades for crypto hedge funds
As more hedge funds pile into cryptocurrencies, market inefficiencies and price dispersion are bringing fresh arbitrage opportunities for…
18 Jan 2021
BrokerTec completes migration of EU Government Bond and EU Repo Trading platform to CME Globex
CME Group's BrokerTec, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, has successfully…
Artemis strengthens distribution team
Artemis Investment Management has appointed Iain MacPherson as a sales director in the firm's Distribution team, effective March 2021.…
Active-management alpha now key to hedge funds’ success, as economies emerge from Covid slump
K2 Advisors, the hedge fund investing unit of Franklin Templeton, says active-management alpha will be critical to hedge funds’ success…
Impairment charge sends GAM further into the red – but Swiss manager sees investment flows rise in Q4
Switzerland-headquartered global asset manager GAM, which is home to Cambridge-based quantitative hedge fund unit GAM Systematic, is set to…
Proprietary trading firms show increasing appetite for new emerging markets in 2021, says Avelacom survey
A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom, a global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the…
Apex launches Invest Check EU SFDR compliance tool
Apex Group (Apex) has launched Invest Check, a tool to help financial market participants collect the necessary data to report on and…
Quantumrock's VSOP up 30.93 per cent in 2020
AI-driven investment manager Quantumrock's flagship strategy, the Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP), closed 2020 up 30.93 per…
Utopia Foundation to bring more than USD1bn of tokenised music rights to Polkadot
Utopia Genesis Foundation, an organisation formed to support the development of an open platform for the music industry, will be moving…
Fireblocks launches staking services following Blockdaemon and Staked integration
Fireblocks has integrated with Blockdaemon and Staked to add new staking services for over 165 enterprise and institutional customers. The…
15 Jan 2021
Moonstake Wallet now offers staking support for QURAS
Moonstake is now supporting staking of QURAS's cryptocurrency XQC in its Web and Mobile Wallets following the announcement of a strategic…
