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Danish banks renew clearing agreement with Nets

The Danish banks have renewed the clearing services agreement with Nets, which represents one of the key elements in the payments area in Denmark.

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Broadridge launches trade reporting solution for SFTR regulatory change

Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced the launch of its trade reporting solution for the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) forthcoming Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR).

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BNZ first New Zealand bank to join SwapClear

BNZ announced on 19 June that it has become a Direct Clearing Member of LCH’s SwapClear interest rate swap clearing service – and has successfully cleared its first trade as a direct member.

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Six Securities launches Advanced Settlement service

SIX Securities Services has expanded its service offering by launching Advanced Settlement enabling financial institutions to process their settlement instructions directly from the trading system – on a fully automated, STP and real-time basis – via a single interface.

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StockViews raises £500K

StockViews Ltd, the online equity research platform, successfully completed a second round of equity funding.

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Cinnober recruits Ninni Pramdell as group CFO

Cinnober has recruited Ninni Pramdell as Group CFO. She will start this newly created position on September 1 of this year.

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Trax and Bats connect for MiFID II equities trade reporting

Trax®, a subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. and a leading provider of regulatory reporting, trade matching and capital market data services, and Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, today announce plans to offer Trax Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) customers the choice to direct equity trade reports to the Bats APA in order to help market participants comply with MiFID II post-trade transparency obligations.

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Singapore commodity exchange trials diamonds on the blockchain

Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX), the world’s first commodity exchange in physically settled diamonds, today announced that it has successfully partnered with Kynetix, the physical commodity digitisation expert, and Everledger, supplier of blockchain and distributed ledger infrastructure, to complete the first part of a Proof-Of-Concept of a blockchain-based authentication and secure record-keeping service for trading diamonds on a global commodity exchange.

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Columbian CCP signs tech deal with Spanish bourse

BME has reached an agreement with the Colombian central counterparty (Cámara de Riesgo Central de Contraparte de Colombia – CRCC) whereby it will use BME’s technology in the clearing and settlement of Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) in the Colombian market, a service that will begin at the end of 2017.

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SmartStream RDU readies for MiFID

The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), founded by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and SmartStream, today announced a new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) reference data service, enabling financial organisations to more easily meet regulatory requirements, which go live in January 2018.

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Commission proposes more robust supervision of central counterparties

The European Commission is today proposing targeted reforms to further improve the financial stability of the European Union.

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Thomson Reuters Eikon strikes a chord with Symphony integration

Thomson Reuters and Symphony Communication Services, LLC have joined forces to foster open collaboration and information sharing across the financial services industry.

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ResearchPool launches MiFID II research tool

ResearchPool, a leading global digital platform for investment research, announces the launch of its MiFID II solution for investment firms to manage budget, spending, consume and evaluate research, named Tool for Research Usage and Evaluation (“TRUE”).

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Emirates NBD provides clearing and settlement services for the UAE’s equity markets

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, today announced that it is the first UAE-based financial institution to obtain a general clearing member approval from ‘SCA - Securities and Commodities Authority, UAE.

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New clearing system for South African bond markets

The South African bond market will soon receive a new clearing and settlement system that will replace the one that has served the market since 1991.

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OCC issues guidance for banks as US prepares for T+2

The OCC expects that as of the T+2 compliance date, in accordance with industry standards and applicable securities and self-regulatory organizations’ rules for securities clearance and settlement, banks will not effect or enter into a contract for the purchase or sale of an affected security that provides for payment of funds or delivery of securities later than the second business day after the date of the contract, unless otherwise expressly agreed to by the parties at the time of the transaction.

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Synechron joins Misys partner programme

Synechron, a global financial services consulting and technology service provider, today announced that it will join the Misys InFusion Partner Program.

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MiFID II driving trend to automated trading - Greenwich Associates

Although most analysis of MiFID II’s regulations has focused on the unbundling of research, implementation of the new directive will also have a major impact on trading.

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INTL FCStone joins Swift gpi

INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) today announced that its London-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd's Global Payments Division ("GPD" or "the Company") has joined the SWIFT global payments innovation (gpi) initiative.

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3d innovations hires BNP and Ipug vet John Ikel to head up data compliance and licensing

3d innovations (3di), a global data management software and services firm to buy and sell side participants, has hired market data specialist John Ikel from BNP Paribas to head up its main consulting and product unit for data governance.