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Esma registers NEX Abide as trade repository

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU supervisor of trade repositories (TRs), has registered NEX Abide Trade Repository AB as a TR under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), with effect from 24 November 2017.

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Modernisation in South Africa

Chris Hamilton, CEO, BankservAfrica, talks at Sibos 2017 about the national payments system in South Africa, the modernisation programme being implemented, some of the challenges around open banking and distributed ledgers, and how financial inclusion will boost the region’s economy.

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Taking baby steps towards trade digitalisation

Farooq Siddiqi, Global Head Trade Finance, Standard Chartered Bank, talks at Sibos 2017 about the current state of play around digitalisation within trade, what barriers are stopping banks moving forward and how we can address these challenges, and what progress the industry is expected to make in this area.

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Aberdeen Standard Investments fund goes live with Calastone Settlements service

Calastone, the global fund transaction network, today announces that Standard Life Investments (SLI) is live on Calastone’s innovative, automated funds settlement solution.

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Thomson Reuters introduces APA Connectivity for MiFID II trade reporting

Thomson Reuters has introduced APA Connectivity, an efficient and customizable solution for the financial services industry to comply with trade reporting requirements for Approved Publisher Arrangements (APAs) under MiFID II, set to be implemented on January 3, 2018.

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Strate to apply Nasdaq blockchain for proxy voting

South Africa's central securities depository Strate is to implement blockchain-based e-voting technology from Nasdaq to surmount the administrative hurdles facing shareholders and corporations in conducting Annual General Meetings.

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Future investment in Latin America

Roberto Gonzalez Barrera, CEO, Indeval, talks at Sibos 2017 about the challenges facing the Latin America financial community such as falling behind other regions in terms of technology and investment and what trends are shaping the region for the future.

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New Guinea stock exchange switches on Nasdaq trading system

Nasdaq Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and the Port Moresby Stock Exchange (POMSoX) have announced that POMSoX has gone live with the widely deployed Nasdaq Matching Engine that operates on the Nasdaq Financial Framework platform.

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Wall Street heavyweights pilot DLT for equity swaps processing

Some of Wall Street's biggest names, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have completed a pilot that used blockchain smart contracts to manage equity swap transactions and post-trade lifecycle events.

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From strategy to implementation using process technology

Parviz Peiravi, CTO Financial Services, Intel, and Alessandro Petroni, Global Head of Strategy, Financial Services, Red Hat, talk at Sibos 2017 about how financial institutions can successfully make the move from strategy to implementation and what they see as the most influential technologies shaping the industry today, including blockchain, AI and cloud.

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Ripple boss predicts central bank adoption of blockchain

Central banks will use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to settle high-value interbank payments within the next five to ten years, predicts the chief executive of Ripple.

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SEC and exchanges in spat over surveillance system

A row has broken out between the US capital markets watchdog and a number of exchanges over the plan to impose a new market surveillance system on the US equities and options market.

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Citi pilots digital platform for proxy voting

Citi announced today the successful pilot of a new digital proxy voting platform, ProxymitySM, which directly connects and authenticates the issuer and investor and makes the voting process more efficient, accurate and transparent.

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Hong Leong Finance signs with Kamakura

Hong Leong Finance has signed an agreement to use Kamakura Corporation's set of solutions for its balance sheet management, funds transfer pricing, and liquidity management processes.

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Channelling capital market flow to where it’s required most

Thomas Zeeb, CEO, SIX Securities Services, talks at Sibos 2017 about whether Brexit will spur on the development of a Capital Markets Union, what the post-trade landscape could look like in the future and whether seeking greater scale is the key solution to all pressures.

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SIX establishes EUR43 million venture fund as part of strategic overhaul

Swiss financial infrastructure provider SIX is to overhaul its business and create a new EUR43 million venture fund as it faces up to new competitors, technology and increased downward pressure on margins.

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CSDs develop model for DLT-based proxy voting aligned with ISO 20022

A consortium of central securities depositories has built a model for an international e-proxy voting product based on distributed ledger technology and embedded with the relevant ISO 20022 standard.

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Data is the new oil

David Puth, Chief Executive Officer, CLS, talks at Sibos 2017 about the big picture trends shaping the foreign exchange market, what data and processing settlement challenges the market is facing, and the growing level of influence of blockchain and DLT.

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NEX Regulatory Reporting will apply to become an SFTR trade repository

NEX Regulatory Reporting announces today its intention to apply to become a trade repository for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) and launch a dedicated reporting solution, pending the issuance of the final technical standards from ESMA.

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BNP Paribas to take over Janus Henderson US post-trade operations

Janus Henderson Investors (NYSE:JHG, ASX:JHG) today announced that BNP Paribas Securities Services, a leading global custodian with over $10 trillion in assets under custody as of September 30, 2017, will assume responsibility for the majority of Janus Henderson's back office (including fund administration and fund accounting), middle office and custody functions in the U.S.