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News/Post-trade & ops
The London Stock Exchange has signed its first technology licensing deal with an emerging crypto exchange, providing its Millennium matching engine to Hong Kong's Atom Asset Exchange.
22 January 2019
The ongoing shutdown of the US government, sparked by a disagreement over funding for border security, is starting to impinge on the US fintech industry, according to reports.
11 January 2019
Oslo Bourse is inviting rival bidders to a EUR625 million takeover offer tendered by Euronext on Christmas Eve last year.
04 January 2019
It’s been a busy year for the Finextra TV team, posting 251 video interviews with leading industry figures during the course of 2018. Here are the top five by viewing figures.
21 December 2018
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2018, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2019.
Some very interesting narratives have emerged over the course of 2018 through Finextra’s reports, most of which we expect to progress into increasingly diverse and innovative discussions during 2019.
Nasdaq has raised its offer for Swedish trading tech firm Cinnober to $220 million, after failing to win over shareholders to its earlier valuation of $190 million.
18 December 2018
LiquidShare, a blockchain-based post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), has entered into a pilot phase with 15 market participants trading over Euronext.
17 December 2018
Four of the world's biggest banks - Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan - have invested $17.5 million in risk and exceptions management startup AccessFintech.
13 December 2018
Cinnober's bid to become the trade infrastructure provider of choice for emerging digital asset exchanges has been boosted by the agreement of a contract with Singaporean startup Vaultex Exchange.
News/wholesale
Institutional investors are warming to the use of emerging technology to hit their growth objectives in a challenging market, according to a survey conducted by State Street.
12 December 2018
The chaotic preparations for Britain's exit from the European Union has emerged as a top systemic risk concern for capital markets players surveyed by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)
R3's blockchain-inspired Corda platform is being put to the test in the Euro Debt Market and syndicated loan arena under separate field trials with a collective of international banks.
06 December 2018
Distributed ledger technology outfit R3 has launched a universal settler application to facilitate payments on its Corda platform, with rival Ripple's XRP the first cryptocurrency to be supported.
05 December 2018
The European Central Bank has unveiled its response to the rise of digital wallets with the launch of Target Instant Payments Settlement (TIPS), a pan-eurozone instant payments system.
30 November 2018
UK cloud-based capital markets technology outfit Options is opening a new headquarters in Belfast, doubling its workforce in the city to 200 staffers.
29 November 2018
FX risk reduction utility CLS has gone live with CLSNet, a bilateral payment netting application running on distributed ledger technology from IBM
28 November 2018
Several Finnish financial firms are working with local vendor Tieto to build a distributed ledger for issuance and trading of non-listed company shares.
22 November 2018
News/security
In an interview with Finextra, BAE Systems’ head of cyber security consulting practice Robin Oldham shares new research conducted with interbank messaging network Swift, which profiles the way in which sophisticated cyber crime gangs are moving up the value chain in search of big wins in the wholesale payments and capital markets arena.
19 November 2018
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) claim to have successfully developed Delivery versus Payment capabilities for the settlement of tokenised assets across different blockchain platforms.
12 November 2018
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