Latest Post-trade & ops News: Finextra Research

TradeStation International and Interactive Brokers UK prep global trading account

TradeStation International Ltd, the London-based, United Kingdom subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc., announced today it has teamed with Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited, an affiliate of the Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IBKR), to offer a TradeStation Global platform and brokerage account with the ability to trade markets across the globe.

16 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

Swift recruits CSDs for DLT post trade plans

Banking cooperative Swift has signed an MoU with seven central securities depositaries (CSDs) to explore how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used to improve post-trade processes such as corporate actions, proxy voting and trade processing.

16 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

Russia bids for blockchain success with latest banking launch

The largest commercial bank in Russia, Alfa Bank, is developing a new digital cash service where all transactions will be transmitted and cleared via the blockchain.

15 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

Exchanges call for global fintech standards

As new technologies such as AI and DLT transform the capital markets landscape, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has called on regulators to hold new fintech entrants to the same standards as established players.

11 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

Lombard Risk agrees to Vermeg takeover offer

The board of UK-based banking and compliance software firm Lombard Risk has accepted a cash for shares offer from Dutch software firm Vermeg.

11 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

SETL goes live with blockchain funds platform

SETL, a blockchain-based settlement system for the investment funds industry, has gone live with its pan-European funds record keeping platform IZNES having successfully processed its first transactions.

11 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

ESMA delays MiFID II rules on dark pool caps

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has delayed the introduction of new rules on dark pool trading, a key part of its MiFID II initiative.

10 January 2018

Company update/Post-trade & ops

DTCC releases post-trade Exception Manager

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced the launch of DTCC Exception Manager, the latest addition to its Institutional Trade Processing product suite.

09 January 2018

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Wedbush Futures joins FIS Derivatives Utility

Wedbush Futures, one of the largest capitalized non-bank futures commission merchants (FCMs) in the United States, has selected the FIS (NYSE: FIS) Derivatives Utility to support clearing operations processing and manage the technology for its exchange traded derivatives (ETD) business.

09 January 2018

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Finastra hires Calypso's Pedro to lead capital markets push

Finastra today announced the appointment of Pedro Porfirio to lead global field and customer engagement with capital markets customers and prospects.

08 January 2018

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Linedata forges partnership with London Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista for MiFID II

Linedata (Euronext Paris: LIN), the global solutions and outsourcing services provider to the investment management and credit finance industries, today announced a partnership with London Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista for transaction reporting requirements, as part of its ongoing drive to provide clients with market leading solutions compliant with the European Union’s Markets in Financial Directive II (MiFID II).

03 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

MiFID II arrives: now the hard work starts

MiFID II,the biggest shake-up in financial regulation for a decade may have arrived, but for asset managers and brokers across Europe the work continues as the complexity and costs of full compliance begin to emerge.

03 January 2018

Company update/Post-trade & ops

CLS bolsters senior team with new product and sales leadership

CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has strengthened its product development and sales teams with the appointments of Angus Scott as Head of Product and Lisa Danino-Lewis as Head of Sales EMEA.

02 January 2018

News/Post-trade & ops

Finextra's 2017 in review

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2017, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2018.

22 December 2017

Company update/Post-trade & ops

DTCC certifies Serisys' interface to CTM

Serisys Solutions Ltd. (“Serisys”), a financial technology provider to the capital markets, today announced that its post-trade software, ADYPT CLOUD, now includes a certified interface to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s CTM, a strategic platform for the central matching of cross-border and domestic transactions across asset classes.

21 December 2017

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Esma gives investment firms six-month leeway to fully comply with LEI implementation under MiFIR

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a statement to support the smooth implementation of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) requirements under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR).

20 December 2017

News/Post-trade & ops

Italian banks to test R3 Corda for payments reconciliation

The research and innovation centre of the Italian Bankers Association, ABI Lab, is building a blockchain proof-of-concept to handle straight-through processing of interbank reconciliations over the R3 Corda platform.

19 December 2017

Company update/Post-trade & ops

SIX invests in Asian post-trade provider Contineo

Contineo, Asia’s largest messaging network and data provider for structured products, announced today that SIX had joined the firm’s consortium as a strategic partner and investor.

19 December 2017

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Citi and CME Group roll out Baton Systems distributed ledger platform

Citi and CME Clearing have implemented a real-time distributed ledger platform developed by Baton Systems, a payments technology provider.

15 December 2017

News/Post-trade & ops

Banks tap Ethereum smart contracts for MiFID II compliance

As MiFID II looms into view, Swiss bank UBS is leading a pilot that will use Ethereum smart contracts to improve the quality of counterparty reference data through anonymous reconciliation.

15 December 2017