24 Jun 2020
Chanos warned investors of a 'speculative leg-up' back in November
Jim Chanos, the president and founder of Kynikos Associates and one of the industry’s higher profile short-sellers, said that the evidence…
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23 Jun 2020
INTL FCStone significantly expands relationship with Eventus Systems for market surveillance in EMEA region
INTL FCStone Ltd, the London-based European subsidiary of Fortune 500 company INTL FCStone Inc, is to deploy Eventus Systems' Validus…
Alpha Blue Ocean announces appointment of new Chief of Staff
Alpha Blue Ocean Advisors (Alpha Blue Ocean), an alternative investment firm specialising in providing innovative financial solutions for…
hedgeweekLIVE North America: Pandemic lockdown is accelerating hedge fund outsourcing trends
The trend towards outsourcing – a continually evolving sphere within the global hedge fund industry – is likely to have been further…
The “locusts” were the canaries in the coal mine (again): Hedge fund short-sellers vindicated as Wirecard blow-up jolts Germany
There is precious little to celebrate in the precipitous collapse of Wirecard, the German payments group whose shares have lost 90 per cent…
INTL FCStone appoints Director, Structured Product Sales
The Fixed Income Division of INTL FCStone's wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial has appointed Grant Garcia as Director,…
Exberry launches multi-asset class exchange infrastructure
Exberry has launched its multi-asset class exchange infrastructure designed to enable traditional, alternative and digital asset exchanges…
SmartStream launches API for firms requiring fast access to reference data for meeting the SFTR deadline
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions provider, today extended its Reference Data…
Trustology and GCEX partner to build secure liquidity network for OTC digital asset trading
Crypto custody solutions provider Trustology has partnered with FCA-regulated, OTC broker, GCEX, to create a secure liquidity network…
April hedge fund redemptions totalled USD38.1bn, says Backstop BarclayHedge
The Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on hedge fund redemptions continued in April as the industry experienced USD38.1 billion in outflows. While…
22 Jun 2020
Operational support gains ground as crypto develops
The digital asset space has expanded to include multiple cryptoasset types, blockchains and a variety of centralised and decentralised…
Eliminating credit risk will lead to increased flows into digital
Capital inflow into digital assets from active asset managers is expected to increase in the near future. Investor concerns regarding…
Institutional calibre custody solutions and connectivity
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital asset exchange, is leading the way in driving mass institutional participation in the crypto trading…
Routes to institutional growth in digital assets
By A Paris – The institutionalisation and maturing of the cryptocurrency and digital assets world is taking place – at present this is…
UCITS fund run by Lyxor Chenavari eyes alpha generation as QE creates “unhealthy” market
Continued central bank support amid the Covid-19 pandemic is creating “bubble-style valuations” in markets, according to Chenavari…
