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Retail investors may soon be able to buy and sell shares via Facebook's messenger platform after UK fund supermarket AJ Bell announced plans to launch a new trading service in the next three months.
08 June 2016
Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Milan this week for EBAday 2016, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.
07 June 2016
Icap has won a $65 million deal to supply technology for fixed income and foreign exchange electronic execution services in mainland China.
03 June 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) is seeking feedback from market participants on the possible use of distributed ledger technology in securities markets, honing in on the "potential benefits and the risks that such broader use may pose".
02 June 2016
The London Stock Exchange says that its planned merger with Deutsche Boerse could see up to 1250 jobs axed as the combined firm bids to make hundreds of millions of euros in cost savings, partly through technology.
01 June 2016
The European Central Bank has gone to tender for a new real-time position-keeping/treasury management system.
SETL, the operator of a permissioned ledger for post-trade processing, has launched its first commercially available application.
The use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement in the cash equities market could save banks around the world $6 billion a year, mainly through lower headcounts and back office IT costs, according to a Goldman Sachs report.
26 May 2016
Business advisory firm Deloitte is setting up an Emea financial services blockchain centre in Dublin that will house a team of 50 developers and designers.
25 May 2016
Ping An Financial Services Group has become the first Chinese member of the R3 distributed ledger consortium.
24 May 2016
Icap is to put its fintech incubator Euclid Opportunites to the forefront as it sells off its brand to Tullett Prebon and refocuses its business under the new name NEX Group.
16 May 2016
European exchange group Euronext has set aside EUR150 million to fund its growth over the next three years through internal development and via a series of bolt-on acquisitions.
13 May 2016
Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings has set its stall out as a central player in the fintech ecosystem, promising to aggressively adopt new technology and build a network of startups through a $275 million venture fund.
12 May 2016
IBM is stepping up its interest in distributed ledger technology, setting out a new framework for securely operating blockchain networks in the cloud, and outlining details of a partnership with BNY Mellon.
29 April 2016
The Finextra Community has posted its 10,000th blog post, marking a major milestone in the growth and maturity of the financial technology industry's most enduring social network.
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) and Markit are promising to implement reforms to the licensing of data and indices on credit default swaps to stave off an ongoing anti-trust investigation by the European Commission.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set out plans to build a database, called the consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will help regulators track all trading activity in the US equity and options market.
28 April 2016
SETL, the post-trade blockchain startup founded by former Chi-X chief Peter Randall, is to work with Computershare on a joint initiative to establish securities ownership registers using distributed ledger technology.
The European Central Bank is looking into the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) for the Eurosystem's market infrastructure but is wary of the far-reaching consequences for the role of central bank money, says executive board member Yves Mersch.
26 April 2016
A new Morgan Stanley report poured cold water on some of the wilder claims about how and when distributed ledger technology will transform the financial services industry.
25 April 2016
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