Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology, has just announced that it has launched FinKit™ for Open Banking to help financial institutions meet and keep pace with rapidly unfolding regulations. The move toward open banking, driven by the European Union's Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and the United Kingdom's Open Banking…
Read moreThe boards of NEX Group plc (LON:NXG), CME London Limited and CME Group Inc. CME (NASDAQ:CME) have announced that they had reached an agreement on the terms of a recommended share and cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of NEX. The Acquisition is to be effected by means of a…
Read moreThe Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Government Department of Jobs and Small Business (DJSB) have today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). ASIC Commissioner John Price and Secretary of the Department of Jobs and Small Business, Ms Kerri Hartland, today announced the MOU to facilitate the agencies working…
Read moreRetail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC together with Jefferies Financial Services, Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, has announced that the two companies have expanded their FX Prime Brokerage relationship. Jefferies is quickly becoming a preeminent service provider in the prime brokerage space and we’re very happy to be expanding our relationship with…
Read moreICAP Energy Australia and New Zealand, part of interdealer broker TP ICAP group, has just announced the launch of its new Australian Energy Hub, which will provide greater price transparency in the Australian gas market. The Energy Hub builds on the existing capability of the ICAP Fusion platform, which currently provides volume matching sessions for the…
Read moreOn 12 April 2018, Russia’s Federal Treasury has informed that it has successfully conducted its first repo auction with a floating rate via National Settlement Depository’s Collateral Management System (CMS). The amount of concluded transactions reached RUB 60.7 billion. Federal Treasury repos with a floating rate is a new product in NSD’s CMS product range.…
Read moreHSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HSBC) has announced a withdrawal from the coal fired power sector, as part of its efforts to support a transition to a low-carbon economy. In 2011, HSBC decided to significantly restrict its support for new coal-fired power plants and effectively ceased financing them in 78 developed countries. It will now stop financing…
Read moreVisible Alpha has just announced that it has received ISO 27001 certification from Schellman & Company, LLC, an ANAB and UKAS accredited Certification Body based in the United States for its information security management system (ISMS) supporting the Visible Alpha Services. ISO 27001 Certification published by the International Organization for Standardization is the leading international…
Read moreDeutsche Börse Group’s post-trade services provider Clearstream has announced that it has successfully migrated the Belgian, Dutch, French and Italian markets onto its new TARGET2-Securities (T2S) Investor-CSD model. It thereby brings the first real cross-border volume onto the ECB’s pan-European settlement platform. With this move, the vision of a harmonized settlement landscape for securities across…
Read moreCLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of March. These show that Q1 2018 has been a record for CLS with the highest traded volumes submitted to the service ever, topping Q1 2013. Average daily traded volume submitted…
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