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Target2-Securities (T2S) could help eurozone banks plug the Basel III capital shortfall they face to the tune of EUR33 billion, according to a study from Clearstream and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
03 September 2013
CME Group's procedures for monitoring Exchange for Related Position (EFRP) transactions are "inadequate" and should be beefed up quickly, says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
05 August 2013
Fidessa has opened a Post-trade Confirmation Hub which allows buy-side and sell-side firms to confirm trades between themselves via the open source messaging protocol FIX.
01 August 2013
The London Stock Exchange will provide technology and business development help to Argentinian CSD Caja de Valores (CVSA) under a deal designed to boost the South American country's capital markets.
31 July 2013
The Tokyo High Court has upheld a lower court ruling ordering the Tokyo Stock Exchange to pay 10.7 billion yen to Mizuho Securities over a botched trade in 2005 that cost the Japanese broker 40 billion yen in trading losses.
25 July 2013
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has entered into a binding agreement to acquire full ownership of post-trade processing utility Omgeo.
24 July 2013
Euroclear central securities depositories in Belgium, France and the Netherlands are to move to a T+2 settlement timeframe in October 2014, earlier than anticipated.
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been fined £5.6 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for incorrectly reporting transactions in wholesale markets, and in some instances, failing to report transactions at all.
Capital markets tech firm Calypso has won a contract to provide the core clearing platform for a new central counterparty (CCP) for OTC derivatives created by a consortium of Chilean banks.
23 July 2013
The London Stock Exchange is to open a central securities depository (CSD) in Luxembourg to provide a full range of custody and settlement services across the eurozone.
16 July 2013
Nyse Euronext has beaten off competition from financial information vendors to take control of the London Interbank Offered Rate.
09 July 2013
The London Stock Exchange is to acquire the derivatives business of Turquoise Global Holdings, in which it owns a 51% stake.
05 July 2013
Telecoms firm Colt and payment processor SIA have won a deal to build the network infrastructure connecting the German, Italian, French and Spanish central banks for Target2 and Target2-Securities (T2S).
Financial information services group Markit has hired Goldman Sachs to orchestrate an initial public offering reports Reuters, citing "four people familiar with the process".
26 June 2013
Australian investors have realised up to $215 million in net benefits since the arrival of Chi-X on the nation's shores busted the natural monopoly enjoyed by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
25 June 2013
The Australian securities market regulator Asic has shelved plans to introduce tougher rules on high frequency trading and dark pools following a dip in fleeting small orders by HFT traders and lower activity in dark markets.
20 June 2013
Interdealer broker Icap has made a strategic investment in Enso Financial Management (EFM), an early-stage provider of portfolio reporting and data analytics services to hedge funds and asset managers.
Datawatch has agreed to buy Swedish real-time visual data discovery specialist Panopticon Software for around $31.4 million in stock.
18 June 2013
Financial data outfit Markit has acquired the assets of Global Corporate Actions Validation Service from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
17 June 2013
EU member states have agreed a series of reforms to the markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) aimed at enhancing transparency levels and limiting the growth of dark pool trading.
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