Disruptive technology: the post-trade world wakes up
Looking at three pivotal technologies: distributed ledger type (DLT), common platforms, and cyber defences.
Looking at three pivotal technologies: distributed ledger type (DLT), common platforms, and cyber defences.
Launches new clearing system for exchange traded derivatives, based on Cinnober’s tech.
The investment bank has consolidated all front office trading activities on a single platform – MX.3 from Murex.
ION heading for a clean sweep of the treasury management software market?
Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) bought a 9.7% stake in Spanish fintech Finect for under €1 million.
R5-SHCH Connect has gone live for “closer financial market activity between the two nations”.
Gets its hands on an eFX trading solution which covers post-trade and payments.
Starring Coinsilium Group, GMEX Technologies and Vaultbank.
Thanks to the internet and tech anyone anywhere can take part in financial trading.
Bolsa de Valores de Panamá goes for matching engine technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture.
Post-trade scenarios, a cryptocurrency app and a trading platform. Stars Swift, DeVere Group and Horizon Software.
All about Asia this time. Featuring Cobinhood, JCB, Currency Port and Republic Protocol
eToro and CoinDash will develop a suite of blockchain-based products for social trading.
Opt to use post-trade processing tech to provide automation to market participants who process derivatives.
The name’s bond. Tamed bond.
Port Moresby Stock Exchange (POMSoX) has gone live with Nasdaq’s Matching Engine that operates on the Nasdaq Financial Framework platform. The launch of the new trading platform is a result of an upgrade from previous Nasdaq trading technology. The new engine will handle the trading of equities in the Papua New Guinea (PNG) market. POMSoX […]
Inside ETFs has produced a dedicated industry report for its 7th annual Inside ETFs Europe conference, Europe’s largest and most-respected exchange-traded funds (ETF) conference.
UK-based Crown Agents Bank (CAB) has launched a new online foreign exchange (FX) trading platform – EMpowerFX – offering access to prices on emerging market and major traded currencies. “Our OECD-based clients depend on our ability to offer a diverse range of hard-to-find and illiquid currencies, from the Belize dollar and Ethiopian birr, to the […]
Janus Henderson Investors has chosen BNP Paribas Securities Services to assume responsibility for most of its back office; fund administration and fund accounting, middle office and custody functions in the US.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been sharing some extracts from a new crime thriller, Trading Down, by Stephen Norman, long serving CIO/CTO of RBS Global Markets. Here, in the third and final extract, we return to the action at the Hamilton Datacentre crisis.
Here’s a second extract from Trading Down, by Stephen Norman, which continues the drama in the Hamilton Datacentre.
Mosaic Smart Data’s real-time data analytics platform, MSX, has been deployed by JP Morgan to optimise the productivity and profitability of its global fixed income sales and trading division.
A sneak preview of a debut novel by Stephen Norman, long serving CIO/CTO of RBS Global Markets and previously Merrill Lynch. A fast-paced crime thriller – published on 9 November 2017.
SmartStream Technologies, the financial transaction lifecycle management (TLM) solutions provider, has revealed that its original agreement with Credit Suisse was recently expanded to include the processing of listed derivatives brokerage fees which began in February of this year.
The derivatives execution and clearing (DEC) business of BNP Paribas has implemented SmartStream Technologies transaction lifecycle management (TLM) Fees and Expense Management (FEMS) solution.
Social trading company Ayondo has announced that, despite an earlier reverse takeover bid falling through, it is determined to become the first fintech company to IPO on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX).
BNP Paribas Securities Services is implementing Smart Chaser, a trade matching tool using artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analysis, to further automate trade processing services it provides to investment managers. According to BNP Paribas Securities Services, trade matching – the comparison of trade details between the client and its broker – must be performed in […]
Social investing platform Voleo has teamed up with Nasdaq to launch its Voleo Equity Trading Competition – with winning investors and investing teams getting $10,000 in real cash portfolios, reports David Penn at Finovate (Banking Technology‘s sister company). “The goals of the competition are to improve financial literacy, to break down the knowledge barrier, and […]
Invstr, the social and investment game app, has launched a new product which will give UK members the ability to trade fractional shares.
Swedish financial services group SEB and Nasdaq are working on a joint project to test a developed prototype for a mutual fund trading platform based on Chain’s blockchain ledger. The aim is to increase efficiency in the processing of purchases and sales of fund units and to create a unit ledger – an area which […]
Deutsche Börse Group has signed for the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), to use its managed service and tools for Deutsche Börse’s upcoming Regulatory Reporting Hub.
Big Xyt, a smart data and analytics provider, has unveiled its new hub for trading firms to integrate tick data and analytics via a single API. According to the firm, the Xyt hub allows companies to consume, analyse and visualise data through cloud-based technologies, featuring Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and nice Analytics-as-a-Service (AaaS) functionalities. Bats has signed […]
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Wake me up when September sends a fintech funding round-up. Features Deutsche Börse, RegTek.Solutions, Finaeo and Now Money. Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial Management have co-led in a $5 million Series A funding round in RegTek.Solutions, a regulatory reporting solutions provider. As reported last month, the Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse launched a partnership […]
Nasdaq will acquire eVestment, a content and analytics provider used by asset managers and investment consultants, for $705 million funded through a mix of debt and cash on hand. According to Nasdaq, eVestment provides investors a database for both traditional and alternative strategies, including 2,800 individual data points on more than 74,000 investment vehicles. eVestment […]
Vietnam’s first derivatives market and clearing house has gone live on the GMEX Technologies platform. The project is a collaboration between Hanoi Stock Exchange and Vietnam Securities Depository, and has been carried out together with local system integrator FPT Information System.
SIX Swiss Exchange and Nasdaq and working with blockchain tech company Chain to provide distributed ledger technology (DLT) for for SIX’s over-the-counter (OTC) structured products business.
The Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse has launched a partnership with Risk Focus and its software subsidiary, RegTek.Solutions, to use its key system components for the hub’s OTC trade reporting solution. The functionality of the components provided by Risk Focus and RegTek.Solutions includes the Validate.Trade product, and interpretation of instrument details of OTC derivatives […]
Nasdaq will acquire Sybenetix, a surveillance provider that uses behavioural analytics and cognitive computing. The addition of Sybenetix to Nasdaq’s risk and surveillance suite of solutions, including Smarts and TradeGuard, will allow Nasdaq to “bring deeper technology savviness and expertise to buy-side compliance officers across the global capital markets who require future-focused surveillance capabilities to […]
Swiss financial services provider SIX has selected Synechron as the systems integrator for the Calypso v15 solution as an update to its post-trade services. The deal is part of the SFR (securities finance renewal) programme, with the objective to revamp SIX’s post-trade services where it acts as a contractual triparty agent for its clients to […]