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Trends of the foreign exchange today

Angus Scott, Head of Product, CLS, speaks at Sibos about the major trends around foreign exchange settlement today, what initiatives CLS are taking to attract more users and volumes over the CLS Settlement service and how the increasing adoption of new technology is impacting the services CLS provides today.

08 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

Cardstream and Gala form alliance to combat chargeback fraud

Cardstream announced a game-changing fraud prevention alliance with Gala Technology, aimed at protecting thousands of embattled Card Not Present Mail Order Telephone Order (CNP MOTO) merchants.

08 January 2019

News/wholesale

Wall Street firms plan to take on Nyse and Nasdaq with new exchange

Morgan Stanley, E*Trade and Fidelity Investments are among a group of Wall Street firms backing a new equities exchange hoping to take on Nyse, Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets.

08 January 2019

Company update/Trade execution

CBOE promotes Chris Isaacson to COO, Eric Crampton to CTO

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, today announced that Chris Isaacson, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, will become Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ed Tilly.

07 January 2019

News/Trade execution

Oslo Bourse invites bidding war over Euronext takeover offer

Oslo Bourse is inviting rival bidders to a EUR625 million takeover offer tendered by Euronext on Christmas Eve last year.

04 January 2019

News/Trade execution

DX.Exchange prepares for live launch of tokenised stock trading

Estonian cryptocurrency exchange DX.Exchange is preparing to launch a service matching tradable tokens to a limited number of big ticket stocks traded over Nasdaq.

03 January 2019

News/Trade execution

Lights, camera, action! Finextra TV highlights 2018

It’s been a busy year for the Finextra TV team, posting 251 video interviews with leading industry figures during the course of 2018. Here are the top five by viewing figures.

21 December 2018

News/Trade execution

2018: The future of banking in the spotlight as digital trends take hold

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2018, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2019.

21 December 2018

Company update/Trade execution

Medici Ventures completes securities token transfer

Medici Ventures, the leading blockchain accelerator and subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc., has conducted a digital securities token transfer representing its equity ownership in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based Chainstone Labs.

19 December 2018

Company update/Trade execution

SIX and Hiag data partner on financial cloud

SIX and HIAG Data intend to enter into a partnership to provide secure Swiss cloud services to strengthen the financial market.

19 December 2018

News/Trade execution

Nasdaq raises bid price for Cinnober in face of shareholder opposition

Nasdaq has raised its offer for Swedish trading tech firm Cinnober to $220 million, after failing to win over shareholders to its earlier valuation of $190 million.

18 December 2018

Company update/Trade execution

Trading Technologies elevates CEO Rick Lane to chairmanship

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced the appointment of CEO Rick Lane as chairman of the company’s board of directors.

17 December 2018

Company update/regulation

Archax names former CurveGlobal COO Steve Hamilton as head of regulation

Archax, the forthcoming institutional-grade, regulated, digital securities exchange based in London, today announced that it has appointed Steve Hamilton as its Head of Regulation.

17 December 2018

News/Trade execution

LiquidShare moves into pilot phase

LiquidShare, a blockchain-based post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), has entered into a pilot phase with 15 market participants trading over Euronext.

17 December 2018

Company update/Trade execution

IHS Markit to offer automtive stock signals

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, expanded its alternative data offering for asset managers with the launch of new stock selection and strategy signals covering the automotive sector.

13 December 2018

Company update/Trade execution

SIX launches fixed income Deal Pool

Today, Credit Suisse, Raiffeisen Schweiz Genossenschaft and UBS used SIX Deal Pool to inform investors about the latest bond issue of Pfandbriefbank with a placement volume of CHF 206 million.

13 December 2018

News/Trade execution

Cinnober wins contract with Singapore's Vaultex Exchange

Cinnober's bid to become the trade infrastructure provider of choice for emerging digital asset exchanges has been boosted by the agreement of a contract with Singaporean startup Vaultex Exchange.

13 December 2018

Company update/Trade execution

FlexTrade deploys Corvil analytics

Corvil today announced that FlexTrade, a global leader in high performance multi-asset execution and order management systems, is employing Corvil Analytics to assure excellence in client performance and experience across its trading solutions.

12 December 2018

News/wholesale

Institutional investors ready to embrace new tech

Institutional investors are warming to the use of emerging technology to hit their growth objectives in a challenging market, according to a survey conducted by State Street.

12 December 2018

Company update/Trade execution

Nasdaq rings the opening bell for new US corporate bond exchange

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced it launched a Corporate Bond exchange for listing and trading of corporate bonds.

06 December 2018