Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 8 April 2019
Africa Fintech association, City watchdog’s orders, and a new blockchain alliance!
Trading Technology
Euronext ahead in bid race for Oslo Bors with regulator’s recommendation
The Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority is vouching for Euronext.
TradeIt to be acquired by TradingView
The company will leverage TradeIt’s technology to bring mobile trading.
Trade finance standardisation project backed by 14 giants
The project seeks technology use and standardisation for the wider distribution of trade finance assets.
Network International’s LSE float attracts £300m Mastercard investment
Partnership aims to penetrate MEA region.
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Sova Capital picks Iress for wealth management middle-office
Iress will also provide post-trade processing services.
Sweden’s SEB chooses DTCC’s Global Trade Depository to meet SFTR obligations
DTCC has added data transformation services to its SFTR offering.
TickSmith powers CanDeal’s DataVault Innovations
The company will use the Data Pooling Platform to launch its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering.
Bcause picks Nasdaq for market surveillance cause
It will go live in H1 2019 with launch of its new spot cryptocurrency market.
San Juan Mercantile Exchange partners up for digital assets solution launch
CQG, Elysium and Mercury Digital Assets will power exchange and banking tech.
Xena unleashes crypto-settled derivative contract for GRAM token
“This is a significant step for the entire crypto market.”
“Hello USA!” eToro goes live in America
Its US launch will enable customers in 32 states to trade and invest in six cryptocurrencies.
GreenKey Technologies secures investment from IPC
IPC gets exclusive rights to GreenKey’s machine learning voice solutions.
SIX picks Corda blockchain to support digital exchange
Many of SIX’s traders are also R3 investors and members.
Nasdaq ups its offer on Oslo Stock Exchange to $795m
Five days from the closing deadline, Euronext is on the back foot.
Voleo and Nasdaq launch second student equity trading contest
Their plan to promote financial literacy and awareness among college-age students.
ZagTrader and BeQuant show crypto FIX-ation
Duo will offer access to cryptocurrencies using the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) and APIs.
Hong Kong Exchange buys into Shenzhen fintech
HKEX looking to boost its financial markets tech capabilities.
Euronext ups Oslo Stock Exchange offer to $790m
What a saga! The battle in Norway against Nasdaq continues.
2gether Global preps open beta beyond Spain
The “banking platform” has now released some of its promised features.
Citi and HSBC capitalise on Capitolis FX tech
Streamlining the novation processes.
Unite Global partners with WOCU for centralised currency
EXCLUSIVE. An electronic currency to support its payments platform for trade and settlement.
Capitalise goes live with Interactive Brokers
Capitalise enables traders to automate their strategies using natural language.
Euronext takes on Nasdaq with $737m Oslo Stock Exchange offer
Makes lower bid but says it has support from majority of Oslo Bors shareholders.
Equidate re-named Forge Global, boosts Series B to $85m
US-based trading platform looking to broaden its services.
MiFID II’s unbundling mandate puts data front and centre for traders
A year on, MiFID II is changing the way buy-side firms acquire and produce investment research.
Dinosaur and tZero unleash securities trading on blockchain
Brokerage outfit and Salt Lake City-based firm in no danger of becoming extinct.
Bison app attracts crypto trading hunters
Powered by Börse Stuttgart and designed for buying and selling.
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Mobile trading platform CloseCross gets $3m funding
It opens the round with investment by Amnis Ventures
Data firm Essentia Analytics brings in £2.5m funding
Provided by Calculus Capital.
Atom crypto exchange readies for Hong Kong launch
AAX will be powered by tech from London Stock Exchange Group.
Social crypto trader Blockport sets sail
Integrated with mobile banking app Bunq.
Temenos and Bloomberg on same side for buy-side action
The new solutions will provide NAV calculations.
Crypto trading platform Currency.com launches
A firm that has a website as a name is unveiled.
Capis acquires FinTech Securities
Texan firm also reveals new promotions and products.
Zwipe seeks $14m funding for Merkur Market move
Norwegian firm looks for multilateral trading facility action.
Nasdaq nets new Nigerian trading tech deal
Nigerian Stock Exchange signs on for five more years.
Social trading firm Ayondo goes pro
Clients will be able to trade more than 2,000 instruments.
