Lacerta Services
We create financial technology.
We bridge digital and traditional.
Technology – Creativity – Adaptability – Transparency
Developing systems for digital finance
Founded in 2020, Lacerta delivers and operates investment products, custom solutions and proprietary strategies which enable clients to gain exposure to the digital asset class and benefit from digitally enabled opportunities.
Our team combines decades of its members’ distinguished experience in investment banking, risk management, trading, software development and blockchain technology with proprietary developed processes and systems and best of breed third party vendors to deliver attractive risk vs performance characteristics and optimal solutions for client’s digital finance requirements.
Our edge
01We design, implement and manage bespoke digital native solutions that enable clients to tap a whole spectrum of new and existing, but challenging, opportunities in portfolio management.
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risk management
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API Connectivity
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Middle Office
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Regulatory Compliance
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Account Management
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Automated Trading
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Decision Management
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Investment Strategies
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Structured Products
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Blockchain Implementations
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Liquidity Sourcing And Optimisation
Finance for the Digital Generation
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We fully capitalise on our long and multidisciplinary experience in traditional and digital finance. We transform TradFi solutions for applicability to digital space.
Our team strives to make the transition from traditional to digital more efficient by leveraging proprietary technology, sophisticated quantitative techniques, and unique ability to manage diverse portfolio of risks.
MANAGED ACCOUNTS
Separately managed accounts is all the hype these days for investors who prefer to participate in the value potential of digital assets directly from their own accounts while retaining full control to their digital wealth. We can set them up for select investors and support managing them in accordance with a specifically tailored strategy.
Setup
- We will coordinate and manage, on behalf of the client, the account(s) opening, connectivity, custody and reporting; accounts keys remain at the exclusive possession of the client.
Control
- Only the beneficiary can transfer assets out of the account. The beneficiary is able to monitor at will the status and operation of the account.
Customization
- Multi venue – Full API connectivity with the most liquid spot and derivatives exchanges
- Multi strategy – market neutral, long/short, opportunistic, macro, quant, HFT, trend following
- Multi instrument – coins, tokens, perpetuals, futures, options
- Borrowing/lending – connections available with the most prominent prime brokers and liquidity providers to suit and boost returns for any strategy
Reporting
- Full transparency available on trades, allocations, transaction costs
Real time monitoring
- Live NAV and P&L visibility
Security
- Engagement of specialised digital asset custody whereby the assets remain under custody control and protected by the most technologically advanced cyber security structures such as air gapping, multi party computation and enhanced cryptography.
Strategies
03Our market neutral strategies can be customised to help investors achieve superior returns while reflecting the risk profile the client wishes to maintain.
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Opportunistic, With No Or Variable Directional Bias
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Market Neutral And Systematic Arbitrage
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Long/Short
MARKET NEUTRAL DIGITAL INVESTMENT
Starboard Digital Strategies is a USD-denominated, full institutional grade hedge fund which executes market neutral arbitrage investment strategies in derivative instruments with digital currencies underlying.
Founded and developed by a collaboration between Glafka capital, an FCA-authorised Small AIFM, and Lacerta Services, who joined forces to create investable crypto products that meet institutional investor standards. SDS provides investors with consistent low volatility returns, totally uncorrelated from any other asset class.
Setup and operate fund structures
Even the simplest investment vehicle that claims investment grade needs to have in place an operational structure comprising many functions:
Be right from the get-go!
Lacerta Services breadth of experience ensures the optimal setup from the beginning, with the added benefit that all the systems necessary to support this structure are tried and tested.
Operated smoothly
The expertise magnitude of Lacerta’s operations team ensures the smooth and efficient management of complex structures. We use a host of proprietary, in house developed systems, complemented by best of breed commercial systems where appropriate.
OUR VALUES
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Honest and Transparent
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Embracing Change
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Focus on the customer
Meet our team.
Our philosophy is to build a great team and then empower them to do great things.
• 20-yr tradfi experience in regulated equities brokerage, investment banking, private equity.
• Active in digital assets since 2018 via his participation in a next generation integrated digital bank where he led finance, regulation, risk and compliance.
• Co founder of market neutral hedge fund since 2020
• Education: MBA, MSc Telecoms, Dipl. Electrical Engineering
Recruitment
We are always looking for people who embrace our values and are capable of listening carefully, thinking for themselves and delivering consistently against all hurdles. If you are one, let us know at [email protected].