Post-trade & ops

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TMX, Bank of Canada and Payments Canada to run blockchain settlement tests

Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada and TMX Group have come together to experiment with an integrated securities and payment settlement platform based on distributed ledger technology.

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CLSA goes live with Torstone Inferno

Torstone Technology, a leading global provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced that CLSA, a leading Asian capital markets and investment group, has signed a multi-year deal to use Inferno and is now live with the solution, which will bring greater efficiencies to its post-trade processes.

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Fundchain bids to move beyond prototyping

Fundchain, a collaborative initiative of the Luxembourg fund industry, is to advance its exploration into potential applications for distributed ledger technology and define ready-to-use products that could be implemented in the short-term.

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Creating value through the smarter use of client data

Graham Ray, Global Head of Product Management, Securities Services, Deutsche Bank talks about the importance of using data to drive value to their clients in securities services. Why this is important and how to unlock the data you need and make better use of it through analytical tools and techniques to improve the services you offer.

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Daniel Maguire appointed CEO of LCH Group

LCH, a leading global clearing house, today announces that Daniel Maguire has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of LCH Group, with immediate effect.

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Bloomberg and Castine link for MiFID II research management

Bloomberg and Castine LLC today announced that their respective research management technology and research payment solutions can be integrated to provide an end-to-end solution for EU and global asset managers who will be operating under MiFID II guidelines starting January 2018.

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Quantile goes live with LCH compression service

Quantile Technologies Limited ("Quantile") has successfully completed its first compression run at LCH, the world's largest clearing house for OTC derivatives.

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Gleif study claims $650 million cost savings from LEI uptake

Research undertaken by McKinsey estimates that broader, global adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) could yield annual savings of over $150m within the investment banking industry and up to $500m for banks in the issuance of letters of credit.

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SWIFT harmonises bank connectivity to VP Securities using ISO 20022 standards

SWIFT has enhanced its connection to Denmark’s central securities depository (CSD) VP SECURITIES using ISO 20022 standards, reducing costs for banks by enabling them to leverage the same network and standards they use to connect with other securities market infrastructures across the globe.

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Wall Street Horizon EventBreaks alert investors to corporate actions

Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specializing in corporate event intelligence, today announced the launch of EventBreaks.

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Standard Chartered to be first custodian bank to join EquiChain’s user group

Standard Chartered Bank announced today the signing of a partnership agreement with EquiChain, a London-based fintech company, to be the first custodian to join EquiChain’s user group for its blockchain prototype.

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NEX Optimisation and Baton to create new post-trade FX channel

NEX Optimisation, which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, announces today that Baton Systems (“Baton”), a high-speed payments infrastructure provider, has joined NEX Infinity as the first third party to provide its services through the platform.

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Sibos 2017: Blockchain - reality or utopia

Sunny optimism faced off with hard-nosed pragmatism during an early Sibos session on blockchain in the cash and securities settlement space, as ConsenSys rep Monica Singer tried desperately to win over cynical bankers.

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BBVA latest bank to try out Calypso's DLT-based trade matching engine

Leveraging distributed ledger technology and cloud services, BBVA and BBVA Bancomer are piloting an FX matching application developed by Calypso Technology, a leading provider of cloud-based cross-asset trading software solutions for the financial markets, and enterprise software firm R3.

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APG and PGGM develop a blockchain application for pension administration

APG and PGGM have successfully completed the first phase of a joint experiment involving the development of a pension administration blockchain application.

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ABN Amro Clearing extends relationship with Fidessa

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that it has extended its existing relationship with ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. to allow the global clearer to distribute Fidessa’s derivatives EMS.

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Clearstream and dwpbank enter strategic T2S partnership

Clearstream, the post-trade services provider of Deutsche Börse Group, and Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank), one of the largest securities services providers for Germany’s financial market, have entered into a strategic partnership regarding the settlement of securities in a post-TARGET2-Securities (T2S) world.

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BNP Paribas partners TCS for DLT-based corporate actions platform

BNP Paribas has joined forces with Tata Consultancy Services in a bid to transform the tortuous corporate events lifecyle through the use of blockchain technology.

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Jenny Knott steps downs as CEO of Nex Optimisation

NEX Group plc (“NEX”) (NXG.L), a financial technology company at the centre of global markets, announces today that having put into motion the significant restructure of NEX’s post trade division ‘NEX Optimisation’, Jenny Knott has decided to step down as the division’s CEO.

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BTC Capital Management implements Indata for portfolio management

INDATA, a leading industry provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms, today announced that BTC Capital Management has implemented INDATA’s iPM Epic software suite on a front, middle and back office basis via iPM Cloud, INDATA’s private cloud solution.