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Crypto arb hedge fund Argentium appoints head of IR

Sunday, May 30, 2021
Opalesque Industry Update - Paola Mantovani has joined London-based Argentium as a Principal and Head of Investor Relations. She will also serve as Head of Business Development for MENA.

Ms Mantovani has more than 12 years of experience in global financial markets and investment banking. Most of her career has been with Citigroup in London, in Corporate Equity Derivatives, where she looked after European and Middle Eastern clients. Her main responsibilities went from originating and structuring to executing strategic equity solutions tailored to the needs of corporates, family offices, HNWIs and SWFs. Prior to that, Ms Mantovani spent a couple of years in Equity Capital Markets where she was involved in executing IPOs, rights issues and secondary offerings. She holds a Master's Degree in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management from Bocconi University in Milan and a Bachelor's Degree from Dauphine in Paris.

Paul Frost-Smith, CEO of Argentium, commented: "With Paola coming on board we are in a position to deliver a truly outstanding and exemplary experience for our investors. Paola's background in derivatives and tailoring solutions for clients will enable us to provide our investors with unique market access in this fast-paced environment."


About Argentium
Argentium provides services to manage The Argentium Chimera Fund, a high-frequency systematic multi-strategy hedge fund investing across the top 30 cryptocurrencies by market cap. It combines market-neutral arbitrage and liquidity with systematic long/short to provide consistent returns irrespective of market direction. Its trade engine, Chimera, is powered by leading US digital asset execution house MainBloq and runs on servers out of the US with ultra-low latency.

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