News and Insights

2021 was an exciting year for AlgoTrader with lots of traction through both our buy- and sell-side clients. As crypto adoption and prices have grown steadily over the last few years, this new asset class continues to attract institutional investors and fosters the growth of AlgoTrader. With 2021 coming to an end, our insights report […]

The valuation of crypto and digital assets can be a difficult endeavor due to their short history and, at times, novel econometrics. Yet, as Decentralized Finance (DeFi) contains cashflow generating tokens, classic valuation methods like Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) can be applied to those projects – creating comparability even to traditional financial instruments with the […]

Despite regular volatility events, crypto and digital assets are further on the rise regarding retail and institutional adoption. But when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects, those new asset classes are still lacking behind. Given the increasing pressure on financial institutions, especially banks must look for sustainable investment products.  2021 has been […]

AlgoTrader and Peer Energy develop the Green Bitcoin Wallet, a retail product for banks seeking to offer carbon-compensated crypto trading to their clients. The joint project succeeded at Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank’s (BLKB) accelerator program. Zurich (CH) – AlgoTrader, a leading technology provider for institutional-grade digital assets trading, and sustainable technology innovator Peer Energy formed a partnership […]

For the second time this year, crypto markets have experienced a flash crash that brought the major exchanges to their knees – and with them, the client-facing trading platforms of many banks. Here is how these platforms can pass the next such stress test.  For bankers tasked with overseeing digital asset trading services, it must […]