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Both UK and European banks are separately looking at projects to design an early warning system using market data to mitigate the threat of major misconduct or the beginning of the next financial crisis.
28 August 2018
Barclays has hired Justin Brickwood, formerly head of electronic trading engineering at Goldman Sachs, to fulfill a new role as head of markets innovation, promoting the adoption of advanced AI and machine learning techniques within the bank's trading business.
22 August 2018
The chief economist of the Bank of England (BoE) has warned that the rise of artificial intelligence could leave large groups of people "technologically unemployed" unless there was a skills revolution.
21 August 2018
Bank of Montreal's capital markets unit has piloted the use of a blockchain platform for a pilot fixed income issuance transaction.
16 August 2018
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10 August 2018
Products of all asset classes, from commodities to securities and debt, will increasingly be reduced to bits and bytes on a blockchain network, believes Eurex Asia head Roland Schwinn.
09 August 2018
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is teaming up with Microsoft, Starbucks and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to launch a platform that lets people and firms buy, sell, store and spend digital assets such as Bitcoin on a seamless global network.
03 August 2018
Boerse Stuttgart is doubling down on its investment in the crypto markets with plans to develop a new platform for Initial Coin Offerings, a multilateral trading venue for cryptocurrencies and safe storage of digital assets.
02 August 2018
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Navian Capital have joined forces to launch an independent, multi-issuer electronic platform for structured products and annuities.
01 August 2018
Cloud9, a New York-based supplier of voice trading software, has raised $14 million in a funding round led by Barclays Bank with participation from JPMorgan and NEX Group.
Having backed away from a rumoured bid to buy Fidessa, SS&C has turned its attentions to Eze Software, offering private equity owner TPG Capital $1.45 billion in cash for the investment management software house.
31 July 2018
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business is to operate under a new name, Refinitiv, ending a 160-year association with the Reuters brand following the closure of a majority stake sale to Blackstone.
27 July 2018
Reporting a bump in second quarter net income, exchange operator Nasdaq has reiterated its repositioning as a capital markets technology and analytics provider.
25 July 2018
Capital markets firms plan to accelerate their investment in public cloud technologies, with spending on off-premise computing set to consume 47% of IT budgets by 2019, up from 30% last year.
23 July 2018
State Street is to acquire Charles River Development in an all cash transaction valued at $2.6 billion.
20 July 2018
Bloomberg is launching a real-time feed of curated Twitter data, sifting through the deluge of social media sentiment to pick out the most useful content for its algorithmic trading clients.
19 July 2018
Euroclear has made an undisclosed investment in fixed income liquidity matching firm Algomi.
18 July 2018
Capital markets software house Cinnober is teaming up with virtual currency processor and security specialist BitGo to hawk their technology to cryptocurrency exchanges.
11 July 2018
Broker TP-Icap has fired boss John Phizackerley as it braces for a hit to profits from Brexit-related costs.
10 July 2018
In a world first, Switzerland's stock exchange plans to build a fully integrated, DLT-based end-to-end trading, settlement and custody service for digital assets.
06 July 2018
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