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TransFicc, a UK-based startup founded by former LMAX executives to address fragmentation in fixed income markets, has secured €1 million in early stage investment from Illuminate Financial and Commerzbank fintech fund Main Incubator.
11 October 2017
Company update/Trade execution
Investors seeking exposure to the price movement of ether, the native token of the Ethereum platform, just got a new, but familiar option: two Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) which track the price of Ether - Ether Tracker One (COINETH:SS) and Ether Tracker Euro (COINETHE:SS).
Dow Jones has blamed a "technical error" for a series of fake news headlines on Tuesday morning which claimed that Google was acquiring Apple for the bargain price of $9 billion.
10 October 2017
Adjoint, developer of a smart contracts platform and distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, announced today that it has joined International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). Adjoint will contribute to the working groups on Distributed Ledger Technology and Smart Contracts.
BME, through its new technology subsidiary BME Inntech, has developed Bankia's new online securities operation as part of the digital transformation process being carried out by the financial institution.
Today sees the official UK launch of Revista Systems; a new firm created to support the specialised communications needs of the financial services community.
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), the region’s leading financial market, has unveiled its latest digital services as part of its participation in the Abu Dhabi Digital Government stand, during GITEX Technology Week 2017.
09 October 2017
Deutsche Bank aims to create a common industry standard for trading technology by making its own computer code publicly available for the first time.
A2X Markets (A2X), South Africa’s newest stock exchange, made its debut this morning with three listings and four of the industry’s leading brokers on board.
Thomson Reuters has launched Fixed Income Callouts, a flexible and transparent App on the Eikon platform that facilitates the negotiations and agreements of fixed income bond trading terms within banks in country and across African markets, improving price discovery, market monitoring, execution and market transparency.
The very first “Bank-in-Messenger”- TalkBank.io has raised $1million in seed investments with a company valuation of $6.1million. IIDF and 7 private investors, including Mark Malinovsky (kuponator.ru) have funded the start up.
06 October 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is killing off controversial plans to seize algorithmic traders' source code.
05 October 2017
Finextra TV/Trade execution
Wim Raymaekers , Head of Banking Market and SWIFT gpi, SWIFT, introduces SWIFT’s new research with BCG, and talks about the changes payment platforms and processes are currently undergoing, the main drivers behind this and how the industry will evolve in the future.
Jerry Norton, Vice President, Financial Services, CGI, talks about the ECB’s planned new settlement service TIPS, what this is designed to offer, why it is controversial, and the market’s reaction so far.
Bloomberg is reportedly unbundling chat services from its desktop terminal subscriptions, instead charging clients a flat $10 a month per user in an effort to combat the threat posed by messaging rival Symphony.
Moving forward, Cinnober will market its subsidiaries using a new Group profile. This will more clearly position the offering toward the respective market segments and showcase the synergies within the Group.
A consortium of fintechs and banks has developed a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for the syndicated lending market.
LUSID, which stands for ‘Liberated Unified Secure Investment Data-machine’, is a new cloud-based asset management platform which will replace existing in-house software and hardware.
04 October 2017
Bond dealers that want to boost their market share growth need to spend big on technology. That's the message of a new report into IT spending in fixed income trading.
03 October 2017
A new report released by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) based on research by Greenwich Associates, examines the impact that cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and distributed ledger technology will have in driving new revenue and cost savings opportunities for capital markets firms.
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