Cowen Digital officially launched in March last year but had been in the works since early 2021 as institutional investors began increasingly eyeing digital assets.

The move compliments Cboe’s historical data for Europe, US, and Japan which is already offered via BMLL.

The Nordic investment manager said it aims to “future-proof” its order management operations through the integration.

With this move, Eurex has become the first exchange to offer bitcoin index futures in Europe.

Expansion means Murex’s risk platform MX.3 can now be directly connected to LSEG’s real time market data service, Real-Time – Optimized (RTO), using AWS.

New appointments will operate out of Hong Kong; have previously served at Enfusion, Dealogic, Cantor Fitzgerald, CBRE, and Trust Company of the West (TCW).

The parties in question have now been invited to make representations to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) before a final ruling is made.

The move has come in response to the pre-hedging debate, according to the business.

The new enhancements follow a significant increase in the use of the company’s automated trading service, more than double what it was in 2021.