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Confluence buys StatPro for £161.1 million

US investment data management outfit Confluence has sealed a deal to buy UK portfolio analytics company StatPro for £161.1 million.

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Credit Suisse and SocGen first up for Paxos Settlement Service

Post-trade blockchain startup Paxos has been given the go-ahead from the Securities and Exchange Commission to process transactions in the US equities market.

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Job cuts loom at HSBC

Significant job cuts could be on the cards for HSBC staff after chief executive Noel Quinn signaled a major restructuring programme across the bank's UK and US business lines.

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Greensill lands $655 million investment; acquires UK fintech FreeUp

Greensill, a UK-based supplier of alternative supply chain finance, has secured a $655 million follow-on investment from SoftBank Vision Fund.

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Nordea to write down EUR735m in IT and cut further jobs

Nordea has plunged into the red after plans to slash jobs and centralise its IT operation contributed to a EUR1.3 billion impairment charge in the third quarter.

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SMFG taps AI to automatically recommend software repairs

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has joined forces with Fujitsu and the Japan Research Institute (JRI) to trial the use of AI to scan for bugs in coding and automatically recommend software repairs.

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New York defeats OCC in legal battle over bank charters

The US Office of Comptroller of the Currency has suffered a potentially fatal setback in its attempts to offer banking charters to fintechs after a New York judge ruled that the agency was acting beyond its remit.

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Commerzbank and Deutsche Bourse exchange cash and securities tokens in post-trade DLT trial

Commerzbank, Deutsche Bourrse and Meag, the asset manager of Munich Re and Ergo have undertaken a delivery-versus-payment transaction entailing the use of securities and cash tokens for settlement and collateral calls.

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ING applies digital notary to blockchain transactions

ING says it has solved the privacy versus security trade-offs on R3's Corda network through the application of a 'zero knowledge proof notary'.

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Could Big Tech disrupt the investment funds industry?

Big Tech companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft have yet to encroach on the investment funds industry, but new research from distribution network Calastone suggests they would have a ready market from young millennials.

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Securities numbering agency Anna sets up digital asset taskforce

Anna, the global body behind the assignment of International Securities Identification Numbers (Isins), has set up a technology taskforce to explore ways of extending its standards to digital asset trading.

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Instabase raises $105m

Instabase, a US platform startup that helps banks and other firms build business applications from the ground up, has joined the unicorn club after closing a $105 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures.