Solutions
Cboe Digital has successfully launched margined bitcoin and ether futures and completed its first margined bitcoin futures trade, with support from Blockfills, DV Trading LLC, Jump Trading Group, Marex, Toa Capital Partners and Wedbush.
RFB|Peaks Strategies, the specialised financial services division of integrated communications and consulting firm RF|Binder, delivers innovative solutions to clients across capital markets, financial technology, asset management and digital assets. Armel Leslie (pictured), Executive Managing Director, chats to Hedgeweek about some of the challenges and opportunities facing the firm’s hedge fund clients…
A number of buy-side firms including hedge funds, asset managers, and insurance companies are adopting solutions from FIS that are historically aimed at sell-side clients, such as its Cleared Derivatives and Cross-Asset Trading and Risk platforms.
Derivatives marketplace CME Group is to launch options on S&P 500 Annual Dividend Index futures on 29 January, pending regulatory review, in response to client demand for additional flexibility to customise dividend-related strategies.
Eleven, a fintech providing solutions for hedge and private equity funds, has launched Eleven OS 7, which the company says brings “the new level of simplicity, centralisation, data transparency and data integrity to the global private investment process”.
From protecting and servicing assets to supporting data and compliance demands, Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services provides flexible and comprehensive solutions tailored to client needs. Jeff Boyd (pictured), Chief Executive Officer of Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services, chats to Hedgeweek about some of the current challenges and opportunities in the hedge fund sector…
FinchTrade, a Swiss company specialising in liquidity provision and investment tools in the cryptocurrency sector, has formed a new partnership with Cypator, an institutional crypto Electronic Communication Network.
UMB provides access to top-tier technology and integrated back-office support for hedge funds, fund of funds and registered alternative funds. Pete Bergman (pictured), Senior Vice President – Custody Solutions Manager, chats to Hedgeweek about some of the challenges and opportunities in the hedge fund market and the most significant changes in the past 12 months.Â
By Robert D Stock, PhD, Principal, Analytics Research and Equity Research, Axioma – When I used to run due diligence on hedge funds, I met a trader from a hedge fund running a long-short market-neutral strategy. The fund was neutral to various risk factors and had to generate ‘pure alpha’. The trader I met was doing really well while the other PMs were losing money. How?
McKay Brothers, a provider of ultra-low latency wireless infrastructure and market data technology, has deployed the lowest known latency private bandwidth between key New Jersey equity exchanges and TMX Group exchanges in Markham, Ontario.
