Tagged: hedge fund

March 17, 2020 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange Bitfinex has introduced its first cryptocurrency hedge fund. Bitfinex’s management confirmed on March 17, 2020, that its $280 million digital currency hedge fund, called Fulgur Alpha, will be available only to the firm’s institutional clients. Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, told The… Read More

September 9, 2019 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based a hedge fund, Nickel Asset Management, is reporting the first digital assets arbitrage strategy fund run by a UK FCA-regulated manager. The Nickel Arbitrage Fund will apply market-neutral, low-latency algorithmic trading to crypto securities, according to a release. Nickel states that within 2… Read More

August 25, 2019 @ 7:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

OpenFinanance, a registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) for digital assets, recently opened up trading for tokenized hedge fund Protos (PRTS). The company states this is the first-ever tokenized hedge fund to trade on an ATS. The security is available for accredited US investors as well… Read More

July 3, 2019 @ 9:12 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Prime Factor Capital, “an asset manager that specialises in cryptocurrencies,” has been licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the region’s financial regulator, to operate as a “full-scope” Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM). The London-based firm believes it is the first cryptocurrency fund to be so authorized…. Read More

May 21, 2017 @ 9:54 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

A year ago, Numerai premiered itself as a “new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists.” Unlike a traditional fund that makes trades based on human decision, Numerai lets anonymous programmers write open source trading algorithms based on data provided by Numerai…. Read More