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News/crypto
Cboe Global Markets is making a major move into the cryptocurrency arena, agreeing to buy ErisX Digital Holdings, which operates a digital asset spot market, a futures exchange and a clearing house. Financial terms were not disclosed.
20 October 2021
News/markets
Electronic credit trading platform Trumid has raised $208 million in financing led by Point Break Capital Management.
12 October 2021
Alpaca, a stock brokerage platform that offers APIs for fintech apps to connect and trade in US stocks, has raised $50 million and laid out its plan to launch cryptocurrency trading.
31 August 2021
PayPal could be set to take on Robinhood and Square by allowing its American users to trade stocks, according to CNBC.
30 August 2021
Proceedings against Binance will be brought in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre by a group of disgruntled Binance customers who were unable to trade on the platform during this year’s infamous May 19th crypto crash.
19 August 2021
Appital, a London-based marketplace bidding to unlock latent liquidity in equity capital markets, has raised £2.5 million from Frontline Ventures and a host of angels.
12 August 2021
News/cloud
DZ Bank and BayernLB have traded an over-the-counter interest rate derivative in the form of a digital smart derivative contract, with the resulting payments settled daily via Deutsche Börse.
29 June 2021
Financial communication platform Symphony has acquired New York-based voice trading software supplier Cloud9 Technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.
24 June 2021
Exegy has merged with Vela Trading Systems, creating a global leader in low latency market data, trading platforms and predictive signals.
20 May 2021
News/regulation
A report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that while distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers the potential for significant market-wide transformation, market participants are still far from adopting this technology at scale at a market-wide level.
06 May 2021
If the normalisation of Bitcoin and crypto-at-large is to be achieved, there are fundamental challenges that this ‘non-analogue’ asset will be faced with. During Citi’s Digital Money Symposium, panellists of the ‘Institutional Infrastructure for Crypto’ session explored the obstacles crypto firms have faced while trying to carve out a footing within the institutional ecosystem.
25 March 2021
News/wealth
Custody and clearing fintech Apex Clearing is set to go public via a Spac with blank-check company Northern Star Investment Corp II in a transaction valued at $4.7 billion.
23 February 2021
ION Investment Group is set to snap up another fintech, agreeing to buy options technology and execution provider Dash Financial Technologies.
09 February 2021
Singapore Exchange is joining forces with fintech Trumid and investment firm Hillhouse Capital to build an electronic Asian bond trading platform.
News/startups
Vested Finance, a Silicon Valley-based online investment platform that enables Indians to buy and sell US stocks, has raised $3.6 million in a seed funding round.
04 February 2021
News/people
A former director at the UK's financial regulator has been appointed as the chief executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
07 December 2020
News/payments
Request to Pay is in danger of being an answer without a question, unless the banking and payments ecosystem can come together with the corporate world to identify a killer use case that would encourage mass adoption.
26 November 2020
The Australian Securities Exchange shut down for business all-day Monday after a software glitch in a new trading system provided by Nasdaq disrupted the market opening.
16 November 2020
The European Central bank has blamed a software defect at a third party technology provider for an outage that downed the Target2 settlement system for almost 11 hours on Friday.
28 October 2020
A complete failure of all payment transactions within the Target2 system was experienced for several hours on Friday, with backup systems and contingency modules also initially unable to function.
26 October 2020
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