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News/inclusion
On its return to Asia for the second year running, Money20/20 put on a world-class event in Singapore and welcomed senior leaders in financial services, fintech and payments to connect over major developments in digital money.
25 March 2019
News/payments
With International Women’s Day 2019 upon us, banks around the world are celebrating females in finance and addressing the scarcity of women heading up global corporations and institutions. Finextra Research will to do the same at EBAday, the two-day conference curated by the Euro Banking Association to be held in Stockholm on the 18th and 19th June 2019.
08 March 2019
News/Corporate actions
Interbank payments network Swift is to run proof-of-concept trials of the use of distributed ledger technology for proxy voting in the Asia Pacific region.
06 March 2019
Citi has teamed up with Computershare to launch an end-to-end digital proxy voting platform connecting issuers and investors for shareholder meetings.
29 June 2018
It's the second day of Temenos' annual conference on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin. Stay tuned for more on the latest in banking transformation and digital disruption, not to mention the Innovation Jam final.
24 May 2018
Key banking decision makers to the tune of 1200 have descended on Dublin to discuss the future of Fintech and digital banking for Temenos' annual conference. We're live-blogging proceedings here.
23 May 2018
Santander and Broadridge, in collaboration with JPMorgan and Northern Trust as custodian banks, have completed a test run of blockchain for investor voting at the Spanish bank's annual general meeting (AGM).
17 May 2018
The prospect of applying blockchain technology to the proxy voting process has become more likely after Broadridge, one of the biggest providers of investor-related services, was awarded a patent for this very purpose.
11 May 2018
KAS Bank is to test a new blockchain-based service for shareholding voting at its own General Shareholders Meeting later this week.
23 April 2018
Banking cooperative Swift has signed an MoU with seven central securities depositaries (CSDs) to explore how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used to improve post-trade processes such as corporate actions, proxy voting and trade processing.
16 January 2018
South Africa's central securities depository Strate is to implement blockchain-based e-voting technology from Nasdaq to surmount the administrative hurdles facing shareholders and corporations in conducting Annual General Meetings.
22 November 2017
Canada's TMX has developed an electronic shareholder voting system prototype based on distributed ledger technology.
06 April 2017
Nasdaq has successfully completed a proof-of-concept using blockchain technology to streamline proxy voting on companies listed on its Tallinn Stock Exchange, hinting that a wider rollout could be in the pipeline.
24 January 2017
A group of five major banks, working with Thomson Reuters, IHS Markit and Axoni, have carried out a successful test of blockchain technology and smart contracts to manage affirmations and post-trade lifecycle processing for OTC equity swaps.
18 October 2016
Nasdaq is to use blockchain technology to streamline proxy voting on companies listed on the US Exchange-held Tallinn Stock Exchange.
12 February 2016
Estimize, a US start-up that pools members' forecasts for earnings results at listed companies, has raised $1.2 million in funding and launched a crowdsourced mergers and acquisitions predictions platform.
27 March 2014
Financial data outfit Markit has acquired the assets of Global Corporate Actions Validation Service from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
17 June 2013
Fintech giant SunGard has acquired corporate actions automation specialist XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
07 January 2013
XBRL US has finalised its corporate actions taxonomy and made it available for use.
02 June 2011
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation says it will shut off corporate actions processing for all legacy file formats in 2015, as it begins testing of new ISO 20022 announcement messages with five user firms.
13 April 2011
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