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News/Post-trade & ops
Blockchain firms Fnality and Finteum are joining forces to take on the interbank intraday foreign exchange swaps market.
18 September 2019
The London Stock Exchange board has forcefully rejected an unsolicited £29.6 billion takeover bid from Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing.
13 September 2019
Banco Santander has issued a $20 million bond that will run its course entirely on an Ethereum blockchain, an innovation that the bank bills as a first step towards a potential secondary market for mainstream security tokens in the future.
12 September 2019
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has launched a surprise £29.6 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange, concocting a deal that would scupper the LSE's proposed takeover of market data and analytics group Refinitiv.
11 September 2019
The chief executive of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has conceded that the trading venue was subject to a series of cyber attacks this week but has insisted that an outage which brought derivatives trading to a halt was related to a software bug and not a hacker.
06 September 2019
Cryptocurrency surveillance firm Elliptic has secured $23m of investment to fund its ongoing expansion in Asia
04 September 2019
Challenger Revolut is planning to open a customer service centre in Portugal that will employ 400 people.
02 September 2019
Enterprise blockchain vendor R3 has partnered with a Dubai-based startup in an attempt to target the growing market for Islamic finance.
29 August 2019
Australia's capital markets regulator has vowed to expand its use of new technology and behavioural data as part of a strategic plan to strengthen its enforcement.
28 August 2019
With a blockchain-based settlement system already in the pipeline, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is now looking to expand its use of distributed ledger technology though a partnership with cloud computing giant VMware.
26 August 2019
News/wholesale
Intercontinental Exchange's new Bakkt subsidiary has received the regulatory green light to start offering custody and physically delivered Bitcoin futures contracts.
19 August 2019
A new joint SWIFT and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report reveals that interest in application program interfaces (APIs) is rapidly increasing in the securities servicing industry and firms may leverage the technology to handle diversity of asset types.
30 July 2019
Moody's Corporation is positioning to enter the institutional buy-side market with the acquisition of the UK's RiskFirst, a provider of risk analytics technology for asset managers and pension funds.
26 July 2019
Deutsche Bank has announced swingeing job cuts as part of a radical overhaul of its operations that will also see it spend €13bn on new technology over the next four years.
08 July 2019
The Irish central bank has issued a record fine to Wells Fargo for reporting failures by its Irish subsidiary, citing the bank's weak IT systems.
05 July 2019
Regulators, politicians and other crypto players have all responded to yesterday's unveiling of Facebook's Libra project and suggested that the social media giant's digital currency plans may face several challenges.
19 June 2019
Banks would struggle to defend themselves against a state-sponsored cyber attack that corrupted their records over a period of months, according to a Bank of England (BoE) official.
Jobs in the UK's fintech sector have grown by 61% in the last year while demand for skilled workers has seen salaries rise by as much as 25% according to a recently published report.
18 June 2019
The Italian Banking Association (ABI) has revealed that the country's banks will be using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to run its reconciliations as of March 2020, making it the first use of the blockchain among Italy's banks.
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
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