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Additional participants join CLS’s DLT bilateral payment netting service

CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, today announces that Actinver, BNP Paribas, Citibank and J.P. Morgan are live on CLSNet, a standardized, automated bilateral payment netting calculation service for over 120 currencies operating on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform.

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Foreign Currency Direct buys Earthport's corporate FX biz

Foreign Currency Direct has bought the corporate FX unit of Earthport, the cross-border payments firm acquired by Visa last year. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Citi set for go-live on Cobalt post-trade network

Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) post trade infrastructure, has announced today that Citi intends to go live on its infrastructure for bilateral trading.

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Kx technology selected by SMBC to build and manage e-FX infrastructure

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation is the latest bank to turn to Kx to meet its advanced trading, analytics and risk management requirements, extending Kx’s market-leading presence in Foreign Exchange

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Deutsche Bourse and Euronext eyed as potential Currenex suitors

State Street may be looking for a buyer for its multi-bank FX platform Currenex, with Deutsche Bourse and Euronext both in the frame as potential suitors.

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INTL FCStone to buy Giroxx

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) today announced that its London-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd., executed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire Giroxx GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. Closing is conditional upon the approval of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht [BaFin].

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Regulert readies for new rules on transparent FX rates

A Dublin headquartered technology company, Regulert, has launched a solution for banks and card issuers, providing a seamless and simple path for compliance with new rules on transparent FX charges (Regulation (EU) 2019/518).

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EQ Bank partners with TransferWise on international money transfers

EQ Bank, the digital platform offered by Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™, announces a partnership with TransferWise, the global technology company for international money transfers. The result is fully transparent, remarkably fast international money transfers that are up to 8x cheaper1 for EQ Bank customers.

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IBanFirst acquires German FX startup Forexfix

After establishing itself in the Netherlands last month, iBanFirst, global financial services provider delivering solutions across banking borders, today announced the acquisition of Forexfix, a German foreign-exchange start-up based in Berlin with clients across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. As a result, Forexfix’s customers will benefit from iBanFirst’s award-winning online platform, a single interface to receive and make cross-border payments, hedge foreign exchange risks and finance their international growth. This takeover is instrumental in iBanFirst’s change of scale and contributes to the 5 billion euros in payments processed for its more than 3 000 clients this year.

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Nomura selects Pico to boost FX and rates businesses

Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, has selected Pico, a leading provider of technology services for the financial markets community globally, to build, host and manage a new platform supporting its latest innovation programs in foreign exchange (FX) and rates trading businesses.

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Citi launches cross-border B2B payments platform

Citi has launched a new cross-border platform to help its multinational clients manage the complexities in collecting cross border business-to-business payments, by digitizing the transaction process and embedding FX capabilities.

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Integral and Jefferies launch OTC FX venue

Integral, a leading financial technology company, and Jefferies, a global investment banking firm, today announced the launch of TrueFX, a fully integrated service designed for buyside firms to conveniently connect and trade with the FX market at a fraction of today’s trading costs.

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CLS appoints Deborah Hrvatin as chief risk officer

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, today announces the appointment of Deborah Hrvatin as Chief Risk Officer.

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Citi partners with WorldLink to enhance supply chain offering

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) has strengthened supplier finance offerings in partnership with the bank's internal platform WorldLink, allowing clients to transact and settle across multiple major currencies in the US with plans to expand globally.

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Where do incumbents look for game-changing innovation?

How can the established players in financial services deliver meaningful game-changing innovation? What are the challenges in building this from scratch and does the key lie in partnerships with fintechs and start-ups?

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FXCM Pro partners with FlexTrade on technology

FXCM Group, LLC ("FXCM Group" or “FXCM”), a leading international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading and related services, together with the FlexTrade, a global leader in high performance execution management and order management systems for equities, foreign exchange, options, futures and fixed income, announced a technology partnership for FXCM’s institutional business and Flextrade’s “MaxxTrader” solution.

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Citi's Commercial Bank taps Kantox for customised paymentstech

Kantox, a leader in FX management and payment solutions for businesses, announced today that it is providing Citi’s Commercial Bank with a seamless user experience for its foreign exchange (FX) clients in the United States through a customized solution that connects directly to Citi’s foreign currency payments platform.

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SocGen introduces 'Hedge to Pledge'

Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) is offering clients the option to round up their foreign exchange transactions on electronic market platforms and give the difference to good causes.

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Form3 establishes International Payments Business

Form3, the leading provider of cloud-native API payments technology today announced the creation of its International Payments Business, a new initiative by Form3 to give financial institutions servicing consumers and SMEs access to low cost payments and FX services, utilising its API technology.

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LCH integrates with State Street's FX trading platform

LCH, a leading global clearing house, today announced that it is the first clearing house to integrate with FX Connect TradeNeXus, State Street’s FX trading platform that provides exception based automated matching, trade and settlement confirmation enrichment and third party messaging.