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News/cloud
Capital markets firms are acknowledging that the cloud is a catalyst for establishing competitive advantage and the financial services sector has been taking steps to prioritise digital transformation.
09 October 2020
News/markets
Clearstream and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange have invested in London-based bond issuance platform Origin.
07 October 2020
ION Group has agreed to offload Broadway Technology's fixed income business in order to appease the UK's competition watchdog and secure the acquisition of the rest of the company.
10 August 2020
London Stock Exchange (LSE) is reportedly considering the sale of its Borsa Italiana business in order to appease EU regulators and help ease its proposed takeover of data provider Refinitiv.
31 July 2020
News/wholesale
Bursa Malaysia is developing a proof-of-concept (POC) for a blockchain-based bond trading venue.
30 July 2020
David Rutter, founder of LiquidityEdge and R3, is looking to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the corporate bond market with a new trading platform, LedgerEdge.
14 July 2020
ION Group's planned takeover of Broadway Technology has been thrown into doubt after a UK watchdog ruled that the deal could raise competition concerns in the supply of electronic trading systems.
08 July 2020
Low latency trading and workflow outfit TransFicc has closed a series A investment round of £5.7 million led by Albion VC with participation from new investors ING and HSBC.
30 April 2020
News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
The number of suspicious transaction and order reports (STORs) recorded by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reduced for the first time since records began in 2016
28 February 2020
ING is to spin out bond analytics platform Katana, the latest graduate from the Dutch bank's fintech incubation labs.
07 January 2020
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has acquired a ten percent stake in London-based bond workflow outfit Origin.
04 December 2019
Banco Santander has issued a $20 million bond that will run its course entirely on an Ethereum blockchain, an innovation that the bank bills as a first step towards a potential secondary market for mainstream security tokens in the future.
12 September 2019
The chief executive of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has conceded that the trading venue was subject to a series of cyber attacks this week but has insisted that an outage which brought derivatives trading to a halt was related to a software bug and not a hacker.
06 September 2019
Citi has promoted Anne-Maree Tassell as the new head of operations and technology for EMEA.
29 August 2019
Enterprise blockchain vendor R3 has partnered with a Dubai-based startup in an attempt to target the growing market for Islamic finance.
Fixed income trading platform MarketAxess has agreed a $150 million deal to buy electronic US Treasuries marketplace LiquidityEdge.
13 August 2019
The cloud has fundamentally altered the economics and time to value of risk management and regulatory reporting. By allowing banks to handle the real-time, daily and periodic nature of regulatory reporting in an elastic manner, cloud computing has also provided cost-effective, long-term (and immutable) data storage to respond to queries from regulators.
12 July 2019
The UK's financial services watchdog is proposing a ban on cryptocurrency derivatives for retail investors in order to prevent them incurring large losses in financial instruments they do not understand.
05 July 2019
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has paid US$25 million for a 20% stake in BidFX, a specialised trading platform for global FX markets.
27 March 2019
Canada's big six banks are teaming up with local online exchange CanDeal to build a fixed income and derivatives market data hub.
12 February 2019
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