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News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
Blockchain infrastructure outfit Blockstream is joining forces with Japanese tech player Digital Garage and FS firm Tokyo Tanshi on a new venture building bitcoin and blockchain tools for the Japanese institutional market, beginning with a yen-pegged stablecoin.
23 January 2019
News/startups
JPMorgan has welcomed securities financing startup Wematch to its In-Residence fintech programme where it will work side-by-side with the bank over a six-month period to explore ways of applying its technology at scale.
08 November 2018
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is ploughing ahead with its project to re-platform its credit derivatives Trade Information Warehouse (TIW) on distributed ledger technology and cloud, enlisting 15 of the world's largest banks for a testing phase.
06 November 2018
As they face up to sharp declines in fixed-income revenue and profitability, banks are looking to technology to bail them out to such an extent that top data management and analytics skills are being demanded from new sales and trading staffers, according to Greenwich Associates.
24 October 2018
Investment bank Goldman Sachs is near to finding a buyer for its investment app Simon, according to reports.
20 September 2018
TransFicc, a UK-based startup founded by former LMAX executives to address fragmentation in fixed income markets, has scored a strategic investment from Citi as part of a deal that will also see it join the US bank's London innovation lab.
20 August 2018
Bank of Montreal's capital markets unit has piloted the use of a blockchain platform for a pilot fixed income issuance transaction.
16 August 2018
Goldman Sachs and Nyca Partners have led a $32 million funding round in enterprise blockchain vendor Axoni.
14 August 2018
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is collaborating with the World Bank on the creation of a Ethereum-based platform for blockchain bond issuance.
10 August 2018
Euroclear has made an undisclosed investment in fixed income liquidity matching firm Algomi.
18 July 2018
The London Stock Exchange has acquired a 16% stake in AcadiaSoft in a bid to further streamline margin calculations and processing in the non-cleared derivatives market.
27 June 2018
Sberbank and telco MTS have implemented the first Russian issue of commercial bonds via smart contracts utilising a blockchain platform developed by National Settlement Depository.
16 May 2018
While significant progress has been made during the last eight years towards establishing a global reporting framework for over-the-counter derivatives transactions, substantial work remains in the areas of data consistency, aggregation and access in order to be able to effectively monitor and reduce systemic risk, according to the DTCC.
25 April 2018
CME Group has reached agreement on a £3.9 billion take over of the UK's NEX Group, in a deal that promises to transform the world's currency and sovereign debt markets.
29 March 2018
A London court has heard testimony from a fired Barclays FX trader about his use of the bank's FX algorithmic trading system in his bid to win his job back, reports Bloomberg.
15 January 2018
Some of Wall Street's biggest names, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have completed a pilot that used blockchain smart contracts to manage equity swap transactions and post-trade lifecycle events.
20 November 2017
JPMorgan has signed a multi-year contract with UK-based Mosaic Smart Data - the first graduate of the Wall Street bank's 'In-Residence' technology startup programme - spanning its global fixed income trading business.
23 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
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has expanded the use of algorithmic trading in its fixed income division in a move that will treble the number of bonds included in the programme to 7,000.
18 August 2017
Deutsche Börse has made a $10 million minority investment in electronic bond trading network Trumid.
10 July 2017
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