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News/Post-trade & ops
Ion Group, a Dublin-based financial software and data company, is reportedly in talks to acquire Acuris, the London-based owner of financial news and data service Mergermarket, in a deal expected to be worth more than £1bn.
10 May 2019
UK regulators are to convene an industry-led 'Technology Working Group' to drive reforms in post-trade processing in a bid to encourage innovation, reduce complexity and increase systemic resilience.
08 May 2019
News/devops
The Australian Securities Exchange has moved closer to its goal of rolling out a blockchain-based settlement system with the opening of a new Customer Development Environment for users to test and interact with the new system.
07 May 2019
The Singapore Exchange is to port its investments in Hyperledger Fabric to Amazon Web Services as the big tech giant unveils its cloud-based Managed Blockchain network.
01 May 2019
Nasdaq has increased its stake on Oslo Bourse with the purchase of 844,071 shares in the Norwegian exchange operator, upping the ante in its fight with Euronext over control of the business.
11 April 2019
The Moroccan and Kuwait central securities depositories have carried out a cross-border securities settlement using stable coins and a blockchain from Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Euronext's battle with Nasdaq for the takeover of Oslo Bourse has been boosted by a positive recommendation from the Norwegian Financial Supervisory Authority.
08 April 2019
News/regulation
Last week it was UBS in the dock for transaction reporting failures, this week Goldman Sachs gets its chance to shine, forking out £34.3 million to the UK's Financial Conduct Authority for errors relating to 220.2 million transaction reports over a ten-year period.
28 March 2019
Russian authorities are promoting the international use of an alternative financial messaging system to the global Swift network in order to mitigate the risk of sanctions.
22 March 2019
The secretary general of the Union of Arab Banks has called on financial institutions in the region to increase their investment in regtech.
UBS has been fined £27,599,400 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failings relating to 135.8 million transaction reports over a ten-year period.
20 March 2019
Spanish bourse BME has completed tests of the use of blockchain technology to eliminate the exchange of physical certificates for collateral pledges.
14 March 2019
Deutche Bourse is teaming up with Swisscom and Singapore's Sygnum to create a regulatory compliant market for trading in digital assets, competing directly with a forthcoming equivalent venture from the Swiss Stock Exchange.
11 March 2019
Blockchain settlement startup SETL has filed for insolvency, appointing administrators to oversee the sale of its ID2S CDS subsidiary to a larger financial services firm.
07 March 2019
Commerzbank and Deutsche Bourse have successfully used distributed ledger technology to execute a legally binding settlement of a repo transaction.
06 March 2019
Nasdaq has raised its offer price for Oslo Bourse to $789 million, matching a rival bid from Euronext.
04 March 2019
State Street has promoted thirty-year industry veteran Lou Maiuri as chief operating officer with overarching responsibility for technology, operations, product and innovation across the group.
27 February 2019
Julius Baer is to offer clients digital asset investment opportunities through a collaboration with Swiss startup Seba Crypto.
26 February 2019
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in a Shenzhen-based financial markets technology firm. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
20 February 2019
Morgan Stanley has struck a $900 million cash deal to buy Solium Capital, a Canadian provider of cloud-enabled share plan administration services.
11 February 2019
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