The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent today its response to the European Commission consultation paper on “Fintech: a more competitive and innovative financial sector”, welcoming the initiative to take a stock-take of the EU’s Fintech industry. ESMA sees Fintech as a positive evolution overall as long as business models aim at improving…
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InfoReach believes they have gone the extra mile to provide for the needs of the future by preemptively meeting the increasing demands and expectations of modern trading applications. InfoReach, Inc., a global provider of high-performance electronic-trading technology for capital markets, announced support for nanosecond granularity in the accuracy of its products' timestamps. This new technology serves…
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U.S. financial regulator Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced the creation of LabCFTC - a new initiative aimed at promoting responsible FinTech innovation to improve the quality, resiliency, and competitiveness of the markets the CFTC oversees. Located in New York, LabCFTC will also look to accelerate CFTC engagement with FinTech and RegTech solutions that…
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The launch of Bloomberg's RMB Bond Suite is an extension of the company's broader strategic focus on China's fixed income market, following the recent inclusion of Chinese bonds into its global fixed income indices Bloomberg today announced the launch of its new RMB Bond Suite, a set of advanced fixed income investment tools for China's…
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Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) announced that Jabre Capital Partners, a Geneva-based global multi-strategy asset management company, has chosen Broadridge’s integrated trading, portfolio management, and risk management platform to help manage their front, middle and back-office operations. Jabre will deploy Broadridge’s investment operations platform to manage its sophisticated, multi-asset funds. Broadridge’s fully integrated solution…
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Addition of trader analytics accelerates firm’s Virtual High Touch offering while also delivering MiFID II solutions tailored for the buy side Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced its acquisition of OTAS Technologies, a market-leading analytics platform that delivers actionable market intelligence and context directly to institutional traders and portfolio managers. OTAS’s analytics and…
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QuantHouse is a Paris-based end to end systematic trading solutions provider.
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Both organizations are working to jointly develop and deliver a module on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies The National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing and the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Center for Blockchain Innovation (ICBI), a part of IBM Research, are collaborating to jointly develop a module on financial technology, to better equip students…
Read moreNasdaq Inc (NASDAQ: NDAQ) one of the world’s leading providers of technology and services to the capital markets, announced today the launch of a venture investment program, Nasdaq Ventures, dedicated to discovering, investing in and partnering with unique fintech companies worldwide. The program’s main objective is to identify and collaborate on new technologies and groundbreaking…
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Dash Financial Technologies, a leading trading technology provider to the institutional trading community today announced the appointment of Ari House as Chief Financial Officer. His first official day in his new role was April 1st. Mr. House has spent nearly 20 years working in various capital markets roles and has accumulated extensive experience successfully operating…
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