Fixed income and OTC derivatives

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All roads lead to the cloud for risk management in capital markets

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.

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Bond issuance platform Origin raises Series A financing, led by Clearstream and LuxSE

Clearstream and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange have invested in London-based bond issuance platform Origin.

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ION offers to sell Broadway fixed income biz to clear competition concerns

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.

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LSE mulls Milan exchange sale to ease Refinitiv deal

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.

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Malaysian exchange trials blockchain bond platform

Bursa Malaysia is developing a proof-of-concept (POC) for a blockchain-based bond trading venue.

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R3 chief Rutter assembles team to build corporate bond trading platform

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.

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UK watchdog raises competition concerns over ION-Broadway deal

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.

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ING and HSBC join £5.7 million funding round in TransFicc

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.

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FCA reports a drop in suspicious transactions

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

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ING spins out bond analytics fintech Katana

ING is to spin out bond analytics platform Katana, the latest graduate from the Dutch bank's fintech incubation labs.

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LuxSE acquires stake in bond issuance startup Origin

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has acquired a ten percent stake in London-based bond workflow outfit Origin.

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Santander issues end-to-end blockchain bond

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.

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Hong Kong exchange suffers cyber attack

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.

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Citi appoints new ops head for EMEA

Citi has promoted Anne-Maree Tassell as the new head of operations and technology for EMEA.

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R3 targets Islamic finance

Enterprise blockchain vendor R3 has partnered with a Dubai-based startup in an attempt to target the growing market for Islamic finance.

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MarketAxess to buy LiquidityEdge

Fixed income trading platform MarketAxess has agreed a $150 million deal to buy electronic US Treasuries marketplace LiquidityEdge.

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Compliance in the cloud for a demanding regulatory environment

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.

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FCA suggests ban on crypto derivatives

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.

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SGX strengthens forex biz with BidFX investment

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has paid US$25 million for a 20% stake in BidFX, a specialised trading platform for global FX markets.

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Canadian banks back new market data hub

Canada's big six banks are teaming up with local online exchange CanDeal to build a fixed income and derivatives market data hub.