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Bloomberg invests in UK regtech firm

Bloomberg today announced a strategic investment in, and a commercial collaboration with, London-based Insightful Technology, the owners and operators of the Soteria Integrated Compliance Solution.

21 July 2022

News/crypto

BNP Paribas Securities Services joins crypto custody market

BNP Paribas Securities Services (BNPPSS) has become the latest asset servicer to promote its push into the digital assets custody sector.

20 July 2022

Company update/regulation

ION Markets unveils Compliance SaaS tool

ION Markets, a global provider of trading platforms, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, has today announced its new Compliance SaaS solution, evolved from the hosted Compliance solution ION implemented in 2014.

19 July 2022

News/crypto

Coinbase gets crypto service provider approval in Italy

Crypto firm Coinbase has been granted approval by Italy's financial regulator to operate as a crypto assets service provider.

18 July 2022

Company update/markets

Clearstream releases settlement prediction tool

Clearstream has launched two new data-based solutions offering insights into past, present and future of settlements: the Settlement Dashboard and the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Settlement Prediction Tool.

11 July 2022

News/crypto

ING spins out digital asset custody platform to GMEX

ING has spun out its institutional-grade digital custody platform Pyctor to market operator GMEX.

11 July 2022

Company update/markets

DTCC Report Hub community grows to over 70 firms

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that the community leveraging its DTCC Report Hub service has grown to more than 70 firms, including leading banks, major swap dealers, and some of the largest custodians, clearing houses and buy-side firms across the globe.

28 June 2022

News/wholesale

Caceis recruits Taurus for digital custody offering

France-based Caceis is the latest asset servicing firm to announce plans to develop its custody service for digital assets.

27 June 2022

News/wholesale

Blockchain firm SETL acquired by Turkish fintech

Enterprise blockchain firm SETL has been acquired by Turkey-based fintech Colendi.

27 June 2022

Company update/markets

Instinet taps Globacap for DealMatch platfrom

Instinet Incorporated ("Instinet") announced this week that it launched "Instinet DealMatch", an electronic private investment platform for institutional investors in Europe.

22 June 2022

Company update/crypto

FTX US buys clearing firm Embed

West Realm Shires Inc. ("FTX US" or "the Company") today announced the acquisition of Embed Financial Technologies Inc., including its wholly-owned subsidiary Embed Clearing LLC ("Embed"), a new FINRA, DTC, NSCC, Nasdaq, and IEX member clearing firm. Embed specializes in providing whitelabel brokerage services and APIs to broker-dealers and registered investment advisors.

21 June 2022

Company update/markets

SocGen converts derivatives back office to FIS Cleared Derivatives Suite

FIS (NYSE: FIS) announced today that Societe Generale has signed an extended agreement, selecting the financial technology leader for the strategic transformation of its derivatives clearing and settlement technology.

07 June 2022

Company update/people

Torstone poaches Japanese lead from Interactive Brokers

Torstone Technology, a leading global SaaS platform for post-trade securities and derivatives processing and risk management, announced today the appointment of Yasuaki Hayashi as Senior Japan Representative, marking the continued expansion of its Tokyo office as the firm grows in Asia.

06 June 2022

Company update/markets

Croatian CSD to join T2S in 2023

The Croatian central securities depository (CSD), Središnje klirinško depozitarno društvo d.d. (SKDD), plans to migrate to TARGET2-Securities (T2S) in 2023.

23 May 2022

Company update/markets

Tower Research chooses Torstone for post-trade services

Torstone Technology, a leading global SaaS platform provider for post-trade securities, derivatives and crypto-currency processing, announced today that Tower Research Capital, the global electronic market maker, has entered into an agreement to utilise the Torstone Platform for post-trade processing, globally, across all traded asset classes.

18 May 2022

News/markets

ASX delays Chess cutover to beyond April 2023

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has confirmed a further delay to the cutover of its blockchain-based post-trade network, which was initially set for go-live in April 2021.

11 May 2022

News/crypto

Big banks invest in institutional-grade crypto trading platform Talos

Institutional digital asset trading technology firm Talos has secured a $1.25 billion valuation after closing a $105 million Series B funding round joined by Citi and Wells Fargo.

10 May 2022

Company update/markets

SmartStream releases Eligibility API for fast access to collateral optimisation

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today announces a new solution, Eligibility API for Collateral Management Optimisation – a faster and more efficient way to get eligibility information contained within collateral agreements like CSA, GMRAs and OSLA’s*, for both pre- and post-trade collateral optimisation.

04 May 2022

News/crypto