Currency Traders Up, Crypto Down, as CTAs Positive in September
October 13, 2021
September was a rare down month for cryptocurrency traders in the Barclay CTA Index, which is up 0.34% for the… Read More »
September was a rare down month for cryptocurrency traders in the Barclay CTA Index, which is up 0.34% for the… Read More »
R3 has acquired the technology and team of the financial asset tokenisation specialist Ivno, enabling the use of Ivno-developed capabilities across R3’s… Read More »
In the latest edition of Currency Matters Colin Lambert talks to John Crouch, CEO, and Walter Bell, CTO, at Ideal… Read More »
New Change FX (NCFX) has appointed Eose to further strengthen distribution of its independent Ccypto data offering, expanding the firms’… Read More »
B2C2 has rounded out its market making suite of products with the launch of crypto options. The firm will initially… Read More »
Exactly what are institutional attitudes to cryptocurrency markets? As a subject, crypto, largely headlined by the price of bitcoin it… Read More »
Former BNY Mellon global head of spot and e-FX Jeff Leal has been named chief operating officer and head of… Read More »
Six financial industry associations have called upon the Basel Committee to remove “material impediments” to bank involvement in cryptoasset markets,… Read More »
CTAs managed a small 0.11% return in August according to the Barclay CTA Index, created and run by BarclayHedge. With… Read More »
AlgoTrader has announced the appointment of FX veteran Martin Wiedmann to its board. Wiedmann has 30 years of international investment… Read More »
Digital asset prime broker San Francisco Open Exchange (SFOX) has launched what it claims is “the first-ever cryptocurrency trading product… Read More »
Historically a secretive firm, Jump Trading Group has formally launched Jump Crypto, a team dedicated to the growth and development… Read More »
Jesse Bruno has joined Bosonic’s digital business as senior director of sales. He will be based in New York and… Read More »
Digital assets platform Pure Digital, part of Puremarkets, has successfully executed a live test trade on its wholesale digital assets… Read More »
Fintech solutions provider, Broctagon Fintech Group, has launched WorldBook, what is says is a “global crypto movement” focused on solving… Read More »
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In noting that the “financial system is shifting under our feet”, the head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Benoît Coeuré,… Read More »
In what it says is a response to rapidly growing institutional interest in publicly-traded digital assets, Standard Chartered’s global research… Read More »
Reactive Markets has launched disclosed cryptocurrency trading on its Switchboard network, supported by five liquidity providers, Cumberland DRW, Flow Traders,… Read More »
Standard Chartered has become the first bank to join the Global Digital Finance (GDF) patron board, an international alliance dedicated… Read More »
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX US has reached an agreement for it to acquire Ledger Holdings, the owner of digital assets clearinghouse… Read More »
SmartTrade Technologies and Japanese FX infrastructure firm SBI Liquidity Market have extended their partnership to tap into what they say… Read More »
Less than five months after revealing its plans to the wider world the Pyth Network has gone live with data… Read More »
Californian digital asset research and development organisation CMTLabs has released proposals for a new crypto asset class in the form… Read More »
In what could be a significant step forward for the crypto industry’s efforts to bring institutional traders onboard, liquidity provider… Read More »
Two more high speed proprietary trading firms Hudson River Trading (HRT) and Jane Street, have joined several of their peers… Read More »
The debate over which US regulatory agency should regulate crypto markets continues to heat up, just weeks after Securities and… Read More »
Deutsche Börse’s Eurex has launched what it says is the first regulated market in Bitcoin-related derivatives with the unveiling of… Read More »
David Newns has left State Street, where he was head of Global Link execution services, to join digital assets exchange… Read More »
Tim Grant has been named head of Europe for digital assets services provider Galaxy Digital. He joins on 16 August… Read More »
Cryptocurrency wealth management firm BlockFi has added four staffers to its roster in the US, US and Asia. Giles Colwell… Read More »
Continuing the US authorities’ campaign to build registration and regulation of the crypto industry in that jurisdiction, the Securities and… Read More »
M&A activity in the digital assets space shows no sign of slowing with news that Gemini has acquired real-time market… Read More »
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has entered a consent order against five companies charged… Read More »
A group of legal industry professionals in the UK comprising lawyers, barristers, forensic accountants, corporate intelligence and asset recovery experts… Read More »
Troubled cryptocurrency exchange Binance has taken a further fit with the announcement that its US head, Brian Brooks, has quit… Read More »
Australian cryptocurrency exchange Independent Reserve says it has become the first business to receive ‘in-principle’ approval for a Major Payment… Read More »
Digital assets trading technology provider Talos, has added a new feature to its platform to allow users to define and… Read More »
Genesis Global Capital has unveiled support for USD Coin (USDC) and Algo on Algorand, a layer-1 blockchain protocols. Genesis will… Read More »
State Street has announced it will provide digital and cryptocurrency asset fund administration capabilities for its private funds clients. In… Read More »
24 Exchange Bermuda has acquired New York-based 11B Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed, the two companies have an existing… Read More »
24 Exchange has been granted a “Class T” Digital Asset Business Licence by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) to offer… Read More »
Chronicle Software has expanded its FIX connectively by partnering with Reactive Markets. The partnership means Chronicle can now offer its… Read More »
Private investment firm JC Flowers has agreed to buy a 30% stake in LMAX Group for $300 million in cash,… Read More »
In the second of the Disruptor Series, Colin Lambert and LMAX Group CEO David Mercer look at the crossover between… Read More »
A new report published by Arcane Research says that bitcoin is becoming increasingly legitimised through the growing market and infrastructure,… Read More »
Digital token trading platform Bitfinex has upgraded its matching engine to handle spikes in volatility as it says it is… Read More »
In the latest edition of Currency Matters, Colin Lambert talks to Maria Aldous, partner at Options Group, about conditions in… Read More »
TP Icap is reinforcing its entry into the digital assets space with the launch of a wholesale trading platform for… Read More »
Deutsche Börse has acquired a majority stake in Crypto Finance, a financial group under consolidated FINMA supervision that offers trading,… Read More »
