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News/wholesale
Intercontinental Exchange's new Bakkt subsidiary has received the regulatory green light to start offering custody and physically delivered Bitcoin futures contracts.
19 August 2019
News/Trade execution
Northern Trust has developed a pricing engine for securities lending that utilises machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to forecast lending rates for 34 global markets.
14 August 2019
Fixed income trading platform MarketAxess has agreed a $150 million deal to buy electronic US Treasuries marketplace LiquidityEdge.
13 August 2019
The London Stock Exchange has confirmed that it is in advanced talks to buy financial data vendor Refinitiv.
29 July 2019
US-based financial infrastructure company Pico has reached an agreement to acquire Irish data analytics vendor Corvil.
09 July 2019
Euronext has spent EUR5 million to acquire a 23.5% stake in digital asset startup Tokeny Solutions.
02 July 2019
Interdealer broker Icap has launched a Digital Asset Markets venture, which will initially operate in the cryptoasset derivatives space
25 June 2019
An IT consultant who hacked into the WiFi network of Australian financial publisher Port Phillip Publishing (PPP) to engage in insider trading has been sentenced to three-years in prison.
The Italian Banking Association (ABI) has revealed that the country's banks will be using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to run its reconciliations as of March 2020, making it the first use of the blockchain among Italy's banks.
18 June 2019
The European Central Bank (ECB) has awarded a tender to Italian payment processor SIA and telco Colt for the provision of connectivity services to the Eurosystem market infrastructures.
17 June 2019
A flurry of large M&A deals and the popularity of contactless payments have helped to create a record volume of fintech deals, according to a recent report, but also raised fears that the market may be overcrowded and reaching peak status.
06 June 2019
Trading technology suppler Iress has acquired market data provider QuantHouse for a total consideration of EUR38.9 million, subject to a two-year earnout proviso.
31 May 2019
What will trading technology look like in 50 years? Trades powered directly by thoughts, hardware that inhibits the influence of negative emotions, and mobile-phone based 3D trading rooms could all be in our future, predicts a report.
30 May 2019
Nasdaq has withdrawn its takeover offer for Oslo Børs, clearing the way for Euronext to buy the Norwegian exchange operator.
27 May 2019
News/retail
Toronto-based online investment manager and trading app Wealthsimple has raised C$100 million in a funding round led by German giant Allianz.
24 May 2019
Four hundred thousand capital markets jobs could disappear over the next decade as advances in artificial intelligence and technology decimate the workforce, according to forecasts by consultancy Opimas.
22 May 2019
Fresh from a $17 million fundraising round, capital markets apps platform OpenFin has appointed former Goldman Sachs MD, Tim Dinsdale, as European chief technology officer.
21 May 2019
OpenFin has won $17 million in funding from a clutch of top banks and VCs as it bids to build a new 'operating system of finance'.
16 May 2019
Traders from Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, JPMorgan and MUFG who used chat rooms to fix the spot forex market have cost their employers EUR1.07 billion in fines following an investigation by EU antitrust authorities,.
The World Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia are trumpeting the success of a project to record a secondary bond market trade on a distributed ledger.
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