Latest Post-trade & ops News: Finextra Research

LSE agrees to sell French clearing biz to Euronext

Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has signed a binding offer and been granted exclusivity to acquire 100% of the share capital and voting rights of Clearnet.

03 January 2017

News/Post-trade & ops

Finextra's 2016 in review

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2016, 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 3 January 2017.

21 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

OTCX wins market exemption licence from Asic

OTCX, the leading provider of electronic derivatives trading capabilities, today announces the development of additional trading capabilities to include OTC Equity Derivative and Interest Rate Derivative trading for the Australian market.

21 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Factset Research acquires Vermilion

FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a leading provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications, today announced its results for the first quarter of fiscal 2017.

20 December 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Big banks prepare $20 million funding round for Axoni - Reuters

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Icap are among a clutch of major financial institutions preparing to invest up to $20 million in blockchain startup Axoni, according to a report by Reuters.

20 December 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Euronext enters exclusive talks over acquisition of LCH.Clearnet SA

Euronext has entered exclusive talks over the acquisition of the French operations of LCH.Clearnet pending the successful closing of the merger between the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Bourse.

20 December 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Euroclear pencils in 2017 for bullion on blockchain roll out

Euroclear is set for a 2017 go-live for the application of blockchain technology in the London bullion market after completing its first pilot trades.

19 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Deutsche Börse signs long-term agreement to use Tbricks by Itiviti

Itiviti, a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry, today announced that Deutsche Börse has signed a long-term agreement to use its Tbricks by Itiviti platform.

19 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

FA Solutions launches 'ledger-free' network for financial services firms

Increasing regulation and digitalisation puts pressure for more efficient operations in the financial industry.

19 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

IPSX chooses Cinnober for exchange technology

Cinnober announces today that it has been selected by the International Property Securities Exchange (“IPSX”) to deliver a managed trading solution. IPSX has applied for approval from the Financial Conduct authority (“FCA”) for a Recognised Investment Exchange (“RIE”) license in order to be able to operate as a regulated stock exchange dedicated to the admission and trading of securities in commercial real estate (“CRE”).

14 December 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Nasdaq Stockholm and Nasdaq Clearing carpeted over cyber risk management

Nasdaq Stockholm and its derivatives clearing operation have been hit with a Skr55 million fine by Swedish regulatory authorities for serious deficiencies in the management of cyber risks.

13 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Euronext confirms departure of Portuguese CEO

Euronext today confirms that Maria João Carioca, CEO of Euronext Lisbon and member of the Managing Board of Euronext, has resigned after being asked by the Government of Portugal to join the Management Board of Caixa Geral de Depósitos.

13 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Calypso to hire 170 new employees next year

Calypso Technology Inc., a leading provider of capital markets and investment management software, today announced that it booked 20 new clients in 2016 and is planning a rapid expansion of its workforce in 2017.

12 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Spot FX blockchain clearing firm FXCH raising €8.5 m including Seedrs crowdfunding

On its way to bringing a much needed change to the Foreign Exchange markets, FXCH Ltd. - the Spot-FX Clearing House, which in July, settled the first FX trade on the Blockchain - is attempting to disrupt again: The first round of financing of the Irish Startup begins this week with an Equity Crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.com.

12 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Caribbean CSDs sign Swift’s ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter

SWIFT announces today that the Barbados Central Securities Depository Inc. (BCSDI) and the Jamaican Central Securities Depository (JCSD) have signed up to the SWIFT ‘ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter’, a framework of principles for the harmonised adoption of the ISO 20022 messaging standard.

08 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

FMSB issues guidelines on surveillance and training in wholesale markets

Using automated voice surveillance systems and surveillance techniques involving Natural Language Processing are among the emerging practices being used to combat the risk of insider dealing and market manipulation, according to new guidelines from the FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”).

08 December 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Tullett and Quaternion partner CU FinTech Lab on open source risk project

Tullett Prebon Information and Irish risk analytics firm Quaternion have partnered to launch an open source risk project in collaboration with Columbia University’s FinTech Lab in New York.

08 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Gleif runs LEI prototype to identify and validate entity ownership status

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body responsible for ensuring the operational integrity of the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, and five ‘first mover’ LEI issuing organizations have successfully concluded a prototype exercise to test the end-to-end process of collecting and validating data on the direct and ultimate parents of legal entities that have an LEI.

08 December 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops