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Sibos 2019: Post-snub insights from LSE and HKEX

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Sibos 2019: Post-snub insights from LSE and HKEX

After the London Stock Exchange snubbed Hong Kong’s $36.6 billion buyout bid earlier this month, day two of Sibos 2019 in London kicked off with PwC’s Jeremy Grant engaging in fireside chats with both LSE CEO David Schwimmer and HKEX CEO Charles Li.

SIX Digital Exchange launches DLT-based trading and settlement prototype

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SIX Digital Exchange launches DLT-based trading and settlement prototype

Swiss stock exchange SIX has launched a prototype of its distributed ledger technology-based digital exchange and central securities depository. Meanwhile, trading has started on Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange.

Sibos 2019: The adoption of SWIFT gpi and impact on global payments

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Sibos 2019: The adoption of SWIFT gpi and impact on global payments

At Sibos 2019, Swift’s Fabien Depasse, Wim Raymaekers, Anne-Sophie Walravens and Lior Cohen, explored how Swift gpi is seeing unparalleled growth in adoption, traffic and corridors. Today, more than 3,500 financial institutions (FIs) are signed up to gpi and allow their customers to make payments in nearly 150 currencies.

Sibos 2019: Should banks trust in the UK despite Brexit uncertainty?

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Sibos 2019: Should banks trust in the UK despite Brexit uncertainty?

Welcoming business leaders and industry experts to the Excel Centre in London for Sibos 2019, Swift innovation manager Innes Macleod takes to the stage to divulge Innotribe’s mission and reflect on the technological and societal changes that are challenging the financial services sector, with input from renowned experimental physicist and celebrity figure Professor Brian Cox.

FX post-trade network Cobalt goes live

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FX post-trade network Cobalt goes live

Blockchain-based post-trade processing network Cobalt has gone live with Deutsche Bank, XTX Markets and Saxo Bank.

Deutsche Bank: Prioritising climate change results in share outperformance

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Deutsche Bank: Prioritising climate change results in share outperformance

Deutsche Bank debunks the myth that profits fall when addressing climate change in its first report for a new research product suite for corporate clients, highlighting that companies that experience positive sustainability press saw share outperformance of 26%.

Utility Settlement Coin project eyes global FX market

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Utility Settlement Coin project eyes global FX market

Blockchain firms Fnality and Finteum are joining forces to take on the interbank intraday foreign exchange swaps market.

London Stock Exchange unanimously rejects HKEX takeover bid

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London Stock Exchange unanimously rejects HKEX takeover bid

The London Stock Exchange board has forcefully rejected an unsolicited £29.6 billion takeover bid from Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing.

Santander issues end-to-end blockchain bond

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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.

HKEX makes £29.6 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange

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HKEX makes £29.6 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has launched a surprise £29.6 billion bid for the London Stock Exchange, concocting a deal that would scupper the LSE's proposed takeover of market data and analytics group Refinitiv.

Hong Kong exchange suffers cyber attack

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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.

Crypto monitoring firm Elliptic raises $23m

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Crypto monitoring firm Elliptic raises $23m

Cryptocurrency surveillance firm Elliptic has secured $23m of investment to fund its ongoing expansion in Asia

Revolut to open ops centre in Portugal

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Revolut to open ops centre in Portugal

Challenger Revolut is planning to open a customer service centre in Portugal that will employ 400 people.

R3 targets Islamic finance

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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.

Aussie regulator turns to tech in new strategy

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Aussie regulator turns to tech in new strategy

Australia's capital markets regulator has vowed to expand its use of new technology and behavioural data as part of a strategic plan to strengthen its enforcement.

ASX brings VMware into blockchain project

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ASX brings VMware into blockchain project

With a blockchain-based settlement system already in the pipeline, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is now looking to expand its use of distributed ledger technology though a partnership with cloud computing giant VMware.

ICE unit Bakkt to launch Bitcoin futures contracts next month

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ICE unit Bakkt to launch Bitcoin futures contracts next month

Intercontinental Exchange's new Bakkt subsidiary has received the regulatory green light to start offering custody and physically delivered Bitcoin futures contracts.

Securities industry close to adopting APIs – SWIFT and BCG

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Securities industry close to adopting APIs – SWIFT and BCG

A new joint SWIFT and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report reveals that interest in application program interfaces (APIs) is rapidly increasing in the securities servicing industry and firms may leverage the technology to handle diversity of asset types.

Moody's acquires RiskFirst

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Moody's acquires RiskFirst

Moody's Corporation is positioning to enter the institutional buy-side market with the acquisition of the UK's RiskFirst, a provider of risk analytics technology for asset managers and pension funds.

Deutsche Bank to spend €13bn on tech amid massive job cuts

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Deutsche Bank to spend €13bn on tech amid massive job cuts

Deutsche Bank has announced swingeing job cuts as part of a radical overhaul of its operations that will also see it spend €13bn on new technology over the next four years.

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