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News/Trade execution
The European Central Bank (ECB) has awarded a tender to Italian payment processor SIA and telco Colt for the provision of connectivity services to the Eurosystem market infrastructures.
17 June 2019
A flurry of large M&A deals and the popularity of contactless payments have helped to create a record volume of fintech deals, according to a recent report, but also raised fears that the market may be overcrowded and reaching peak status.
06 June 2019
Trading technology suppler Iress has acquired market data provider QuantHouse for a total consideration of EUR38.9 million, subject to a two-year earnout proviso.
31 May 2019
What will trading technology look like in 50 years? Trades powered directly by thoughts, hardware that inhibits the influence of negative emotions, and mobile-phone based 3D trading rooms could all be in our future, predicts a report.
30 May 2019
Nasdaq has withdrawn its takeover offer for Oslo Børs, clearing the way for Euronext to buy the Norwegian exchange operator.
27 May 2019
News/retail
Toronto-based online investment manager and trading app Wealthsimple has raised C$100 million in a funding round led by German giant Allianz.
24 May 2019
Four hundred thousand capital markets jobs could disappear over the next decade as advances in artificial intelligence and technology decimate the workforce, according to forecasts by consultancy Opimas.
22 May 2019
Fresh from a $17 million fundraising round, capital markets apps platform OpenFin has appointed former Goldman Sachs MD, Tim Dinsdale, as European chief technology officer.
21 May 2019
OpenFin has won $17 million in funding from a clutch of top banks and VCs as it bids to build a new 'operating system of finance'.
16 May 2019
Traders from Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, JPMorgan and MUFG who used chat rooms to fix the spot forex market have cost their employers EUR1.07 billion in fines following an investigation by EU antitrust authorities,.
The World Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia are trumpeting the success of a project to record a secondary bond market trade on a distributed ledger.
Ion Group, a Dublin-based financial software and data company, is reportedly in talks to acquire Acuris, the London-based owner of financial news and data service Mergermarket, in a deal expected to be worth more than £1bn.
10 May 2019
Commerzbank's VC arm and Octopus Ventures have joined JPMorgan in a $9 million fund raise for capital markets data analytics startup Mosaic Smart Data.
29 April 2019
Societe Generale has issued EUR100 million of covered bonds as a security token, directly registered on the Ethereum blockchain.
24 April 2019
Dozens of financial services job roles will see much of their work taken by data analytics and automation in the next few years, according to a new report from Singapore, which is preparing for the radical workforce shift with a new career training programme focused on emerging technology roles.
Blockchain startup 20|30 has raised £3 million by selling tokenized shares and settling them in a test environment on the LSE’s Turquoise platform.
15 April 2019
Nasdaq has increased its stake on Oslo Bourse with the purchase of 844,071 shares in the Norwegian exchange operator, upping the ante in its fight with Euronext over control of the business.
11 April 2019
Deutsche Bourse has confirmed that it is in talks with Refintiv over the acquisition of 'certain FX business units', following market speculation about a pending $3.5 billion swoop for multi-bank foreign exchange portal FXall.
Kleinwort Hambros has launched a blockchain note to give investors exposure to companies most likely to benefit from the adoption of distributed ledger technology.
08 April 2019
Euronext's battle with Nasdaq for the takeover of Oslo Bourse has been boosted by a positive recommendation from the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority.
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