Apex has been appointed to provide fund administration and transfer agency services for the NEOR Crypto Volatility Fund. NEOR is a long/short quantitative algo crypto vol trading fund with strategies based on artificial intelligence combined with deep-learning models aimed at identifying trading opportunities by digesting real-time data from multiple sources. Eagle Eye Finance Sàrl is…
Category: Digital Assets
SS&C to provide risk analytics for new bitcoin fund
ProFunds, a mutual fund provider with c. USD60bn AuM, has appointed SS&C to provide 18f-4 risk analytics for its BitCoin Strategy ProFund. ProFunds claims that this is the first publicly available U.S. mutual fund whose investment results generally correspond to the performance of bitcoin, before fees and expenses.
Komainu appoints new CEO
Komainu, a C.I.-based regulated institutional-grade digital asset custody services provider with >USD5bn AuC, has appointed Matthew Chamberlain as its CEO. For the past five years, Chamberlain has served as CEO of the London Metal Exchange, Komainu was founded in 2018 as a joint venture between Nomura, digital asset security firm Ledger, and digital asset investment…
LuxSE and SG pioneer DLT token listing
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) and Société Générale have completed the admission of the first financial instruments registered on a public DLT platform on LuxSE’s Securities Official List. The three sets of security tokens admitted on LuxSE SOL are digital covered bonds (OFH tokens) and structured products that have been issued and deployed by SG’s…
Fireblocks hits USD8bn valuation
Fireblocks, the U.S.-based crypto services provider in which BNY Mellon has a stake, has raised USD550m in Series E funding. This brings its valuation to USD8bn, making Fireblocks the highest-valued digital asset infrastructure provider in the world. This follows the recent USD350m fundraising round by Anchorage Digital, the U.S.-based crypto custody platform, valuing the business…
IHS Markit partners with METACO
IHS Markit, the UK-based provider of information, analytics and solutions, has partnered with METACO, the Swiss-based provider of software and infrastructure to the digital asset industry. The partnership aims to deliver post-trade securities processing capabilities for digital assets. IHS Markit’s post-trade securities processing platform will be integrated with METACO Harmonize, a secure digital asset system,…
Bosonic hires Jason Nabi as CRO
Bosonic, a U.S.-based decentralised financial market infrastructure (dFMI) business with a real-time clearing and settlement service for crypto and digital assets, has hired Jason Nabi as chief revenue officer, a newly created position. Nabi reports into Bosonic CEO Rosario Ingargiola. Nabi has worked at Euroclear, HSBC, BNP Paribas and SGSS, and was most recently an…
UnionBank to implement METACO Harmonize
METACO, a provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, has announced that Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) is implementing its digital asset management services. UnionBank will leverage Harmonize, METACO’s digital asset orchestration system, to manage its digital asset operations. Harmonize enables institutions to manage a range of end-to-end digital asset…
Gemini acquires Omniex
Gemini, the crypto firm founded by the Winklevoss brothers, has acquired Omniex, a trading technology platform that provides order, execution, and portfolio management system solutions for institutional crypto trading. Omniex was founded by CEO Hu Liang and chief strategy officer John Burnett, both of whom worked at State Street. As part of this acquisition, the…
Anchorage Digital hires CRO
Anchorage Digital Bank, America’s first federally chartered digital asset bank, has appointed Rachel Anderika as its first chief risk officer. Aderika, who worked at the OCC as a bank examiner, was most recently at Promontory Financial Group, a bank regulatory consulting firm owned by IBM. She helped found Promontory’s digital assets risk and compliance team,…