Nickel Digital Asset Management Ltd is authorised and regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC") and is a member of the National Futures Association ("NFA")

Institutional Approach to Digital Assets

Nickel Digital Asset Management Ltd is authorised and regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA"), registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC") and is a member of National Futures Association ("NFA")

Institutional Approach to Digital Assets

Nickel Digital Asset Management

Nickel By Numbers

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NICKEL BY NUMBERS
  • 5 Year
    Operating track record
  • 30+
    Employees
  • #1
    2024 HedgeWeek Performance Award Multistrategy Funds
  • $400M+
    Funding provided to pods since inception*
  • 90+
    Trading teams (pods) funded since inception
  • 24/7/365
    Real-time risk control by RiskZeus, Nickel’s prop RMS
Nickel by Numbers
  • 5 Year
    Operating track record
  • 30+
    Employees
  • #1
    2024 HedgeWeek Performance Award Multistrategy Funds
  • $400M+
    Funding provided to pods since inception*
  • 90+
    Trading teams (pods) funded since inception
  • 24/7/365
    Real-time risk control by RiskZeus, Nickel’s prop RMS

*Diversified Alpha Fund inception date is 1st February, 2021


Disclaimer: The numbers provided are internal estimates. They are for informational purposes only.

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ABOUT US

About Nickel Digital Asset Management

About Nickel Digital Asset Management

London's award-winning Nickel Digital is a regulated investment manager at the forefront of merging traditional finance with the fast-paced digital asset market. Our expertise lies in leveraging proprietary execution and risk management systems to create and implement advanced quantitative trading strategies. We have designed a diverse portfolio of funds specifically for institutional clients, capitalizing on the volatility of digital asset markets. Through the adaptation of arbitrage and fundamental analysis techniques from traditional financial markets, we generate non-directional or venture-style returns, while maintaining a monthly liquidity profile. Our commitment to transparency and execution efficiency is unwavering, as we strive to define and uphold industry-leading standards, including UK and US regulatory approvals and transparency principles.

Investment funds

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INVESTMENT FUNDS
A multi-manager, non-directional, multi-strategy fund that wraps a diversified portfolio of typically hard-to-access external managers into a single investible fund. Underlying strategies are fully systematic and include arbitrage, high frequency market making, statistical arbitrage and relative value. The fund relies on inhouse, robust multi level risk management infrastructure, allowing for 24/7 real-time risk control across multiple execution venues. The fund targets double digit returns with high Sortino ratio.
This fund captures structural expansion of the Web3 and digital assets space. Portfolio construction is based on a research-intense approach of investing in liquid tokens of Layer 1, Layer 2 protocols and DeFi applications. The portfolio allocation is based on analysis of their use cases, competitive position, liquidity criteria, developers activity and a range of network ratios. The fund is designed to achieve VC-style returns over a cycle, while offering monthly liquidity.

The fund allows for secure, efficient, transparent and liquid access to Bitcoin, the leading digital asset, and is designed to remove existing complexities and inefficiencies in BTC index-tracking products. We provide the market leading crypto security framework, offer daily subscriptions and redemptions, as well as trading at mid-market NAV, with no premia or discounts to the fair market price. Nickel uses sophisticated execution algorithms to minimise unwanted trading slippage, which is critical for large trading volumes.
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OUR TEAM
Experienced
professionals
Established in 2018, Nickel is a trusted authority on digital asset investment
Nickel Digital is run by traders and investment professionals combining decades of investment experience gained in major Wall Street banks, including Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Rothschild, as well as global hedge funds.

This experience is further complemented by the managers' academic backgrounds in mathematics, econometrics and computer engineering with degrees from Wharton, LSE, and the University of Oxford.
  • Anatoly
    Crachilov
    CEO & Founding Partner
  • Michael
    Hall
    CIO & Founder Partner
  • Alek
    Kloda
    CIO & Founding Partner
  • Anatoly
    Crachilov
    CEO & Founding Partner
  • Michael
    Hall
    CIO & Founder Partner
  • Alek
    Kloda
    CIO & Founding Partner
Nickel TEAM'S dna
Nickel's wider team of 30 combines decades of investment experience gained at the top Wall Street banks and global hedge funds.
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ASSET SECURITY

Asset security

Security of Digital Assets
Security of clients' assets is paramount at Nickel. The investment manager deploys an independent institutional-grade custody solution, whereby the manager has no transfer right over the funds. This control is retained jointly by the Fund Administrator and Custodian at all times.
Custodians and Prime Brokerage
In order to create a highly secure custody solution, we have partnered with the two leading custodians in the industry, US-based Fidelity and UK-based Copper. This sophisticated solution includes an air-gapped, multi-signature cross-organisation custody model with automated and secure exchange-to-custody transfers.

The major US asset management house was chosen as a cold storage custody provider for Digital Gold Institutional Fund, bringing its reputation and financial resources to provide trusted, secure custody. Fidelity has built an enterprise-grade custody solution for large institutional clients.
The award winning London-based custodian and prime brokerage house is providing critical infrastructure for secure trading at multiple exchanges, off exchange settlements and secure vault storage of digital assets. Copper can securely custody over 100 various digital assets.
Fireblocks is a platform that protects digital assets in transit, focusing on protecting the transmission of customers' digital assets between exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold stores. The technology consists of the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure.
Asset Security in the Digital Asset Market
Founder Partner & CEO Anatoly Crachilov
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OUR AWARDS
2020
Nickel's Arbitrage Fund received the HFM EuroHedge Emerging Manager Award 2020 in the Specialist category for the quality of its risk-adjusted returns.
2021
Winner of the HFM European Quant Performance Awards 2021 in the Digital Assets category. Nickel's flagship fund, the market-neutral Arbitrage Fund, has been recognised as the best performing crypto quant fund in Europe.
2022
Nickel Digital was recognised for excellence among fund managers in the digital assets space by Hedgeweek US. Nickel's Digital Gold Institutional Fund was awarded the Best New Digital Asset Fund for its unique operational setup and cost efficiency.
2023
Nickel's flagship Diversified Alpha Fund, a multimanager non-directional fund has been recognised for the risk-adjusted performance over 12 months period. The fund has been in existence since February 2021
2022
Nickel Digital receives the Pan Finance award as the Best Digital Asset Manager in Europe for its continued commitment to delivering best-in-class investment solutions and risk management in the digital assets space.

2022
Nickel Digital was voted to have the Best 12-Month Risk-Adjusted Performance – Single Manager Funds (any AUM) at the Hedgeweek European Digital Assets Awards 2022 for its flagship fund, the market-neutral Arbitrage Fund.
2023
Nickel Digital had the Best 36-Month Risk-Adjusted Performance (for AUM >$25M and <$100M) at the Hedgeweek European Digital Assets Awards 2023 for its flagship fund, the market-neutral Arbitrage Fund.
2023
Market-Neutral Arbitrage Fund, Nickel's longest fund in existence, fund has been recognised for its risk-adjusted performance over 36 months period. The fund has been trading since June 2019.
2023
Spear's wealth management ranked Anatoly Crachilov as one of the best cryptocurrency advisers for high-net-worth individuals in the UK based on his experience with Nickel Digital and digital asset investment management.
2023
Winner of the best digital asset manager in Europe award due to deep expertise in leveraging proprietary execution and risk management systems to create and implement advanced quantitative trading strategies.
2023
Nickel's Digital Gold Fund won the award for the best-performing long-only fund from Crypto Fund Research based on performance information from more than 250 crypto hedge funds and VCs.
2024
Nickel's Diversified Alpha Fund, trading since February 2021, has been recognised with the Relative Performance of the Year – Multistrategy Fund award for its outstanding market relative performance year to date, 2024.
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NEWS
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34 St James's Street, London, SW1A 1HD,
United Kingdom

Investor Enquiries
ir@nickel.digital

Press Enquiries
press@nickel.digital

Career Opportunities - View Vacancies
human.capital@nickel.digital
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