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Thomson Reuters has signed a definitive agreement to sell a majority 55% stake in its financial and risk division to private equity funds managed by Blackstone.
31 January 2018
Thomson Reuters is in advanced talks with US private equity outfit Blackstone over the acquisition of a majority stake in its financial and risk business.
30 January 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
The largest commercial bank in Russia, Alfa Bank, is developing a new digital cash service where all transactions will be transmitted and cleared via the blockchain.
15 January 2018
As new technologies such as AI and DLT transform the capital markets landscape, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has called on regulators to hold new fintech entrants to the same standards as established players.
11 January 2018
The board of UK-based banking and compliance software firm Lombard Risk has accepted a cash for shares offer from Dutch software firm Vermeg.
SETL, a blockchain-based settlement system for the investment funds industry, has gone live with its pan-European funds record keeping platform IZNES having successfully processed its first transactions.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has delayed the introduction of new rules on dark pool trading, a key part of its MiFID II initiative.
10 January 2018
MiFID II,the biggest shake-up in financial regulation for a decade may have arrived, but for asset managers and brokers across Europe the work continues as the complexity and costs of full compliance begin to emerge.
03 January 2018
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2017, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2018.
22 December 2017
The research and innovation centre of the Italian Bankers Association, ABI Lab, is building a blockchain proof-of-concept to handle straight-through processing of interbank reconciliations over the R3 Corda platform.
19 December 2017
As MiFID II looms into view, Swiss bank UBS is leading a pilot that will use Ethereum smart contracts to improve the quality of counterparty reference data through anonymous reconciliation.
15 December 2017
US Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation CEO Mike Bodson has poured cold water on some of the wilder hopes of distributed ledger technology cheerleaders, arguing that while DLT might represent the future, it is far from ready for primetime.
13 December 2017
The French Government has cleared the way for the use of blockchain technology in the trading of unlisted securities, as it rewrites is rules to stimulate the innovation economy.
11 December 2017
Commerzbank is looking to make savings by transferring its securities settlement operations to a new joint venture with HSBC Transactions Services.
The Australian Securities Exchange has confirmed plans to replace its Chess post-trade settlement system with a new blockchain-based platform provided by Digital Asset.
07 December 2017
Funds transaction network Calastone has announced plans to migrate the technology underpinning the core of its network to a private and permissioned blockchain infrastructure.
04 December 2017
Boerse Stuttgart has snapped up 100% of local data analytics startup Sowa Labs, marking its first fintech acquisition since the establishment a new digital ventures unit in September.
01 December 2017
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
Some of Wall Street's biggest names, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have completed a pilot that used blockchain smart contracts to manage equity swap transactions and post-trade lifecycle events.
20 November 2017
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