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Company update/Post-trade & ops
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that its Information Mosaic business is launching a new corporate actions solution specifically designed to meet the needs of global investment banks.
11 October 2017
Adjoint, developer of a smart contracts platform and distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, announced today that it has joined International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). Adjoint will contribute to the working groups on Distributed Ledger Technology and Smart Contracts.
10 October 2017
Today sees the official UK launch of Revista Systems; a new firm created to support the specialised communications needs of the financial services community.
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), the region’s leading financial market, has unveiled its latest digital services as part of its participation in the Abu Dhabi Digital Government stand, during GITEX Technology Week 2017.
09 October 2017
News/Post-trade & ops
Deutsche Bank aims to create a common industry standard for trading technology by making its own computer code publicly available for the first time.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Briefing on the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) as part of its efforts to raise industry awareness and facilitate compliance with the LEI requirements under MiFID II ahead of its 3 January 2018 launch.
Eurex Clearing, one of the world’s leading Central Counterparties (CCP) and part of Deutsche Börse Group, has developed a partnership program designed to further accelerate the development of a liquid, EU based alternative for the clearing of interest rate swaps.
BNP Paribas Securities Services is implementing Smart Chaser, a trade matching tool that uses artificial intelligence to warn brokers and their clients of live trades that may require manual intervention to complete.
The very first “Bank-in-Messenger”- TalkBank.io has raised $1million in seed investments with a company valuation of $6.1million. IIDF and 7 private investors, including Mark Malinovsky (kuponator.ru) have funded the start up.
06 October 2017
A consortium of banks and technology vendors led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) have successfully developed software prototypes of three different models for decentralised inter-bank payment and settlements with liquidity savings mechanisms.
Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops
Wim Raymaekers , Head of Banking Market and SWIFT gpi, SWIFT, introduces SWIFT’s new research with BCG, and talks about the changes payment platforms and processes are currently undergoing, the main drivers behind this and how the industry will evolve in the future.
05 October 2017
Jerry Norton, Vice President, Financial Services, CGI, talks about the ECB’s planned new settlement service TIPS, what this is designed to offer, why it is controversial, and the market’s reaction so far.
LUSID, which stands for ‘Liberated Unified Secure Investment Data-machine’, is a new cloud-based asset management platform which will replace existing in-house software and hardware.
04 October 2017
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today announced a partnership with RegTek.Solutions, a leader in regulatory compliance technology, to deliver Reconcile.Trade, a managed service that provides independent, turnkey reconciliations that directly address regulators’ demands for the proactive oversight of trade and transaction reporting.
Torstone Technology, a leading global provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced that Saxo Bank Securities Ltd. (“Saxo Bank Japan”), the investment and trading specialist, has selected Inferno to replace the bank's legal ledger and comply with regulatory reporting requirements in Japan.
SWIFT announces the availability of Customer Data Validation, a new reference data service from SWIFTRef that helps corporate treasurers validate bank master data against the most accurate and up-to-date payment reference data, available from the SWIFTRef directories.
A new report released by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) based on research by Greenwich Associates, examines the impact that cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and distributed ledger technology will have in driving new revenue and cost savings opportunities for capital markets firms.
03 October 2017
Interactive Investor Limited (“Interactive Investor”) has selected JHC Figaro (“Figaro”) following Interactive Investor’s acquisition of TD Bank Group’s European direct investing business, TD Direct Investing.
National Settlement Depository (NSD) has operated emission and initial placement of the first blockchain-based commercial bonds on the Russian market.
02 October 2017
Six months after receiving approval from FINMA – the Swiss trade repository service provided by SIX Securities Services officially went live.
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