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…
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Lukka valued at USD1.3bn
Lukka, the provider of crypto asset software and data services, has raised a further USD110m, valuing the company at more than USD1.3bn.
Komainu launches Yield platform
Komainu, a regulated digital asset custody services, has launched Komainu Yield, giving clients the ability to earn yield on assets custodied with Komainu, and lowering the opportunity cost of using Komainu’s custody solution. Komainu Yield is already live with initial clients, and is now being extended to new custody clients. At launch, Komainu Yield will offer staking services…
Komainu hires 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…
IHS Markit partners with METACO
IHS Markit, a 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, to…
BlockFi gains Bermuda licence
BlockFi, a crypto financial services company, has been granted a Class F digital assets business licence by the Bermuda Monetary Authority for its Bermuda subsidiary, BlockFi International Ltd. BlockFi will centralise its existing products and services for non-U.S. retail and institutional clients under a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for cryptocurrency financial service providers. In…
Gemini hires new CTO from AWS
Gemini has hired Pravjit Tiwana as CTO. He joins from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was the general manager of Edge Services, which includes Amazon CloudFront, AWS Edge Computing, and AWS Data Transfer Operations.
Anchorage raises USD350m
Anchorage Digital, the U.S.-based crypto custody platform, has raised USD350m in a fundraising round led by KKR, valuing the business at over USD3bn.
Jason Nabi joins Bosonic
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…
Mercado Libre takes stake in Paxos
Mercado Libre has acquired shares in the 2TM Group, the parent company of MercadoBitcoin.com, and has made a strategic investment in Paxos, a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform that powers the Mercado Pago cryptocurrency service in Brazil.