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Moelis Australia Securities selects Analec investment research and CRM platforms

ANALEC announced that Moelis Australia Securities has selected its investment research management platform – ResearchWise – along with its CRM for broker-dealers – ClientManager – to power its brokerage operations.

26 January 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

We should not dismiss bitcoin

Jan Skoyles, Co-founder and former CEO, The Real Asset Co, and Marketing, Coinsilium, speaks about the hype around blockchain, the role of bitcoin in inspiring exploration into alternative approaches to the monetary system, and the support blockchain companies can receive.

25 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Ravn Systems releases automated data extraction platform for ISDA

Ravn Systems, experts in Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Search, Unstructured Big Data and Knowledge Management, announced today the release of Ravn ACE for automated data extraction for ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) Master Agreements and Credit Support Annexes (CSAs) using Artificial Intelligence.

25 January 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

DTCC calls for industry coordination on distributed ledger tech

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has pitched itself as the coordinator of an industry-wide investigation into whether distributed ledger technology is the answer to "certain limitations" in the post-trade process.

25 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

GFT Group employs enterprise architect John Downing

GFT, the leading provider of business, design and technology consulting to the investment banking community, today announces the appointment of John Downing, Enterprise Architect and Programme Manager.

22 January 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Financial industry giants join $50m Digital Asset Holdings funding round

Digital Asset Holdings, the blockchain startup helmed by former JP Morgan luminary Blythe Masters, has raised more than $50 million in a funding round joined by some of the biggest names in financial services, including Citi, Deutsche Börse and Santander InnoVentures. One of the investors, the ASX, has also handed Digital Asset a contract to design a post-trade settlement system using distributed ledger technology.

21 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

OptionsCity Software platform comes to DAW Trading clients

OptionsCity Software, a global provider of futures and options trading and analytics solutions, today announced that its cloud-based futures and options trading platform, CityTrader, is now available to DAW Trading clients.

21 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Traiana and Trax ally for repo matching

Traiana, a leading provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions and Trax, a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, today announce that they have entered into a business alliance to offer the industry an interoperable Repurchase Agreement (repo) matching service to support efficient, automated, operational processes ahead of significant regulatory change.

21 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Bloomberg launches online request utility and new mapping tools for the FIGI

Today, Bloomberg announced the launch of OpenFIGI.com and the OpenFIGI API to provide exchanges, data providers, custodians and other organizations direct access to multiple tools for identifying, mapping and requesting the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI).

20 January 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

R3 runs blockchain proof-of-concept with eleven banks

Bank-backed blockchain collaboration outfit R3 has announced the completion of a distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world's largest financial institutions.

20 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

NZX joins Intermarket Surveillance Group

NZX is pleased to announce it has been granted membership to the Intermarket Surveillance Group (ISG).

20 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Options and GoldenSource partner for data management platform

Options, the leading managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets, and GoldenSource, the innovator of enterprise data management solutions (EDM), have today announced a partnership to offer a fully managed solution as a joint offering to clients seeking to improve their enterprise data management (EDM) capabilities.

19 January 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Stability and agility in a fast changing world

Daren Wedge, VP Financial Intermediaries, ACI Worldwide, outlines the impacts that a rapidly evolving payments landscape is having on industry participants, and what these organisations need to do to thrive in the new world.

19 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Croatia joins Target2

The Eurosystem will welcome Hrvatska narodna banka (central bank of Croatia) and its national user community to the real-time gross settlement system TARGET2 on 1 February 2016

19 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

DTCC's Avox data services validates two million entities

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Avox Data Services*, the industry leader in legal entity reference data, has successfully researched and published two million entities globally in its database.

14 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Cinnober to run financial data challenge

Cinnober, with its innovative Labs-facility, will be one of the organisers behind an upcoming Makeathon event that begins on January 18.

13 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Ipreo and Symphony team on deal communications tools

Ipreo, a leading global provider of market intelligence and workflow solutions to financial services and corporate professionals, and Symphony Communication Services LLC, a secure communications and workflow technology company, announced a collaboration to integrate Symphony's secure communications service with Ipreo's suite of capital markets workflow applications.

13 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Sapient Global Markets launches trade reporting platform

Sapient Global Markets, a provider of business technology and consulting services for the capital and commodity markets, today announced the launch of CMRSSM Portal, delivering the proven trade reporting capabilities of CMRS as a fully outsourced solution.

13 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Isda updates strategy, expands board of directors

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (Isda) has announced that its Board of Directors has voted to increase the size of the Isda Board from 26 to 30.

13 January 2016