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Company announcement/wholesale

BNP Paribas champions innovation in credit distribution with CobaltFX’s Dynamic Credit

BNP Paribas, an early adopter of CobaltFX's Dynamic Credit, further expands its engagement with CobaltFX, part of United Fintech, to address regulatory and industry concerns, setting a new standard for precision and effectiveness in market operations.

02 July 2024

Company announcement/markets

ANZ goes live on CobaltFX credit management platform

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has joined CobaltFX’s Dynamic Credit platform to manage credit exposure for FX trades on interbank trading venues.

19 March 2024

Company announcement/wholesale

CobaltFX launches trade notification network

A Single Point of Failure (“SPoF”) in FX post-trade messaging, created by decades of market consolidation, poses a significant threat to the entire global financial ecosystem says industry veteran Andy Coyne of CobaltFX, voicing his concerns as the British fintech launches its alternative post-trade messaging service in efforts to de-risk FX and deal with lack of competition in the world’s effectively largest market.

07 November 2023

News/markets

BNP Paribas and NatWest go live with CobaltFX Dynamic Credit

BNP Paribas and NatWest are going live with technology from CobaltFX that is designed to simplify and streamline the allocation of credit for FX transactions between banks and improve access to liquidity.

31 May 2023

News/markets

United Fintech splits Cobalt into separate FX and digital asset ventures

Following its recent acquisition by United Fintech, Cobalt is relaunching as CobaltFX and spinning off its digital asset business to a new venture on the same platform.

28 March 2023

News/crypto

United Fintech buys FX and digital assets specialist Cobalt

United Fintech, an outfit dedicated to scooping up a stable of capital markets fintechs, has acquired Cobalt, a provider of risk and data services to the FX and digital asset markets. Terms were not disclosed.

15 December 2022

Company announcement/crypto

Cobalt partners with institutional crypto network DeFinity

LONDON, Dec. 22, 2021: DeFinity, an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for fiat FX, Cryptocurrencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies, partners with Cobalt, a market infrastructure provider focused on re-engineering the institutional FX and digital asset markets to facilitate real-time clearing, settlement and dynamic risk and credit management.

22 December 2021

Company announcement/markets

FactSet acquires Cobalt Software

FactSet (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, and industry-leading service, today announced that it has acquired Cobalt Software, Inc. (“Cobalt”), a leading portfolio monitoring solutions provider for the private capital industry.

13 October 2021

Company announcement/crypto

Cobalt Goes Live with 4OTC for post-trade FX and digital assets connectivity

4OTC, the FinTech connectivity specialist for FX and digital assets, today announced that Cobalt, a provider of risk and settlement infrastructure for FX and digital assets, is using 4OTC's new TicketLounge service to capture and normalise post trade data onto a single FIX API.

15 June 2021

Company announcement/cloud

Solace to power Cobalt’s cloud-based financial data movement

Solace, the pioneers of real-time data movement, today announced that innovative FX and digital asset infrastructure provider, Cobalt, is using Solace PubSub+ Platform to power the next generation of their trading platform.

10 June 2021

Company announcement/markets

Spotex to provide clients with credit management tools via Cobalt integration

Cobalt, a multi-award-winning provider of FX and Digital Asset risk and settlement infrastructure, has partnered with Spotex, the developer of FX technology solutions, to provide clients with dynamic credit management tools.

18 February 2021

Company announcement/crypto

Cobalt and Epam to launch institutional-grade FIX gateway for digital asset markets

Cobalt, a multi award-winning provider of risk and settlement infrastructure, announced today its partnership with EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM), a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services, to create the first institutional-grade FIX gateway for the digital asset markets—providing connectivity to over 50 digital asset exchanges and market makers.

11 February 2021