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…
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SGSS partners with Lumi for e-voting
SGSS and Lumi Technologies, a provider of electronic voting services, have signed a partnership to ensure the long-term success of the existing SGSS tablet voting service and offer new remote voting services for general meetings. At the request of SGSS, Lumi Technologies recently acquired the intellectual property and the stock of touchscreen voting tablets developed…
Colmore hires three seniors
Colmore, a Preqin company that provides services and technology for private market LPs and allocators, has made three senior hires. Dominic Critchley has joined as co-head of fund accounting (EU). He was previously head of investment accounting for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. He will work alongside Veronica Harris, who has been promoted to co-head…
Citi links to Bloomberg’s BSKT
Citi and Bloomberg have integrated Bloomberg’s BSKT service with Citi’s proprietary ACES ETF platform to better support Citi’s ETF clients who use BSKT to negotiate fixed income baskets. BSKT is a primary market solution for negotiation, ticketing and routing ETF creation and redemption transactions. ACES features a suite of workflow tools that fully automate the…
Tokeny partners with Inveniam
Tokeny, the Luxembourg-based tokenisation platform that is backed by Euronext., has formed a partnership with Inveniam Capital Partners, Inc., a U.S.-based SaaS company delivering trust, transparency and completeness of data to private market assets. The partnership includes a EUR5m (USD5.7m) investment by Inveniam, Apex, and K20 Fund. The partnership aims to fully unlock asset liquidity…
Kevin O’Neill joins Napier as CRO
Napier, the UK-based provider of an AI-enhanced AML and financial crime platform, has hired Kevin O’Neill as chief revenue officer. O’Neill comes to Napier from Fenergo, the client onboarding specialist, having served as global head, asset management and asset servicing, and head of EMEA sales. He has also held senior positions at BNY Mellon and…
Framework rebrands as daappa
Framework, the private equity platform provider, has rebranded as daappa (pronounced “dapper”), which stands for data, accounting and administration platform for private assets.
AssetMetrix hires in Lux
AssetMetrix, the Germany-based alternatives specialist in which BNP Paribas has a strategic stake, has hired Margot Ripoll as a business development associate in Luxembourg. She previously worked as a credit analyst at investment bank Bpifrance.
LemonEdge wins new mandate
Kensington Capital Partners, a Canadian manager with CAD2.3bn AuM (USD1.8bn), has hired LemonEdge, a UK-based provider, to provide front-to-back accounting and reporting services. The API and low-code accounting platform will power the firm’s PE, VC, and fund of fund structures, alongside an investor portal.
Swiss market tests CBDC integration
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Swiss National Bank (SNB), and SIX, Switzerland’s main provider of financial infrastructure services, have concluded the second phase of Project Helvetia, which looks toward a future with more tokenised financial assets based on distributed ledger technology coexisting with today’s systems. SNB and five commercial banks – Citi, Credit…