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Money 20/20 Asia round-up: Accelerating financial services for the underbanked

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.

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Women in Payments and Finance: Championing women across the global ecosystem

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.

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Swift combines with Asia Pacific institutions on DLT for proxy voting

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.

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Citi launches digital proxy voting platform

Citi has teamed up with Computershare to launch an end-to-end digital proxy voting platform connecting issuers and investors for shareholder meetings.

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Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day two

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.

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Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day one

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.

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Banco Santander counts the votes at AGM using blockchain tech

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).

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Broadridge awarded blockchain patent for proxy voting

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.

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KAS Bank moves shareholder voting to the blockchain

KAS Bank is to test a new blockchain-based service for shareholding voting at its own General Shareholders Meeting later this week.

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Swift recruits CSDs for DLT post trade plans

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.

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Strate to apply Nasdaq blockchain for proxy voting

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.

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TMX applies distributed ledger tech to proxy voting arena

Canada's TMX has developed an electronic shareholder voting system prototype based on distributed ledger technology.

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Nasdaq hails Estonian blockchain pilot for proxy voting

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.

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Barclays and Citi test blockchain tech for equity swaps processing

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.

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Nasdaq to pilot blockchain for proxy voting in Estonia

Nasdaq is to use blockchain technology to streamline proxy voting on companies listed on the US Exchange-held Tallinn Stock Exchange.

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Estimize raises $1.2m; unveils crowdfunded M&A predictions platform

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.

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Markit acquires DTCC corporate actions validation service

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.

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SunGard buys XSP

Fintech giant SunGard has acquired corporate actions automation specialist XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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XBRL US launches corporate actions taxonomy

XBRL US has finalised its corporate actions taxonomy and made it available for use.

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DTCC kicks off corporate actions pilot; legacy formats to be switched off by 2015

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.