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Capital markets expect blockchain to go mainstream within six years

Distributed ledger technology will be widely used in capital markets within six years, completely changing the settlement model for securities, according to a Deutsche Bank survey of industry players.

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Futures and options firms to raise technology spend in 2017

IPC's annual survey of financial executives attending the FIA Futures and Options Expo in Chicago in October 2016 found for the second year in a row that respondents plan to increase their technology spend over the next year to realize cost efficiencies, gain competitive advantage and manage compliance.

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LumRisk goes live on Markit EDM Managed Services

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that LumRisk S.A., a pioneering risk aggregating service provider, and member of the Gottex Group, has gone live on Markit EDM managed services as part of a significant investment in its core technology platform.

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Redi to provide access to S3's Blacklight

REDI Global Technologies and S3 Partners today announced that they have teamed up to provide REDI’s clients with access to S3's award-winning BLACKLIGHT™ platform, an advanced suite of treasury management reporting and analysis tools that provide security, stability and franchise longevity.

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NSD and iCoinSoft preview system for blockchain assets circulation

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, develops partnership with iCoinSoft Exchange Platform by icoinsoft.com as part of the HSE{Pro}Fintech program of the Higher School of Economics’ Business Incubator.

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SETL appoints cyber-secruity expert Martin Clements to its board

SETL, the London based financial blockchain specialist, has appointed national security expert Martin Clements CMG OBE to its board.

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Connecting digital islands in trade finance

Michael Vrontamitis, Global Head of Trade, Product Management, Standard Chartered, talks about the industry’s slow progress in digitalising trade finance, and the technologies – including blockchain, cloud and artificial intelligence – that could form a toolbox to enable the seamless connectivity of today’s digital islands.

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Tech tests complete for Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect

Under the guidance and unified deployment, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) , together with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, China Securities Depository Limited (CSDC) set on the preparation work of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect at the beginning of 2015, launched overall business and technology preparation on May, 2016, and initiated officially the market participants technology preparation after the release of Joint Statement on 16 August, 2016, boosting various of technology preparation work comprehensively.

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Cinnober to move into real-time client clearing

Swedish post-trade technology firm Cinnober is to move into new markets with the creation of a dedicated subsidiary to sell real-time clearing technology and service to large international banks.

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Virtua to offer corporate events data from Wall Street Horizon

Wall Street Horizon, a provider of accurate and timely corporate event dates and information for institutional traders and investors, today announced that its earnings-related corporate event data is now available to the corporate "C-suite" and Investor Relations (IR) professionals for the first time through the Virtua platform.

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Overstock invests in blockchain voting firm SettleMint

Online retailer Overstock is furthering its efforts to build a crypto-trading platform by taking a stake in Belgian blockchain startup SettleMint.

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China Foreign Exchange Trade System joins R3

Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets.

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Pace of change biggest challenge in regulation

Tim Lind, Global Head of Financial Regulatory Solutions, Thomson Reuters, discusses the factors contributing to regulatory fatigue within the industry, and explores how standards and collaboration can help to ease the burden of regulatory change.

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We need to attack vanilla business in payments

Pierangelo Mortara, Deputy General Manager, UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions, speaks about innovations in banking and where distributed ledger technology can fit in.

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LCH targets non-cleared derivatives market

LCH, a leading global clearing house, announced today that it will be launching a new service for the non-cleared derivatives market.

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Global banks launch standardised documentation for repackaging transactions accessible online

Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, Nomura International plc and Societe Generale, (the "Arrangers"), have responded to investors’ demands for standardisation of repackaging transactions by collaborating with international law firm Simmons & Simmons and a number of market-leading service providers to produce market-standard documentation for use in listed and unlisted repackaging transactions.

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DLT: clearing away the payments debris?

Distributed ledger technology has the potential to ease a host of operational pain points with UK payment systems and could be particularly useful for reference data databases, a report from Whitechapel Think Tank (WTT) suggests.

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Avanade contracted by Aspect to manage IT system

Avanade, the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences for its clients, today announced that it will help Aspect to manage its IT platform with scalable product support and development, supporting the company’s strong growth trajectory.

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TMX opens data Web store

TMX Market Insights today announced the launch of TMX Webstore, a new digital e-commerce platform featuring market data, analytics and applications from Canada's definitive source of record.

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Anna issues RFP for derivatives bureau provider

The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) today announced the official launch of its search for the Service Provision Provider of the Derivatives Service Bureau which is to provide ISINs for OTC derivatives.