Category: Institutional

regulations
January 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FICO partners with 4most Europe to accelerate banks' regulatory compliance

Analytics software firm FICO today announced a partnership with risk analytics consultants 4most Europe to help European financial institutions comply with banking regulations. 4most, a European firm in regulatory risk analytics and programme management, will deliver FICO® Decision Central™ software for analytic model governance to customers, and provide consulting. Under European regulations, it is increasingly…

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Paxos teams up with bitcoin payment service BitPay
January 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Luxembourg Stock Exchange partners with ADBC to expand the Green Bond Market

All eligible ADBC bonds will be displayed on the Luxembourg Green Exchange, the first and only exchange-operated platform entirely dedicated to green, social and sustainable instruments, the Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC) announced earlier today. Some more highlights below: The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Agricultural Development…

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January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PEGAS sets again a new high in 2017

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, jst informed that it has achieved its best trading results in 2017 by reaching a new record with 1,953.9 TWh , improving its previous record (1,733.3 TWh in 2016) by almost 13%. The top volume was still observed on the Dutch TTF delivery area where over…

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January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Jyske Bank selects Barracuda for FX order management

Barracuda FX, the specialist provider of FX Order Management technology, today announced the signing of a new contract with Jyske Bank, the major Danish FX trading institution. Jyske Bank embarked on a project in 2017 to streamline their FX operations in order to make them more efficient. A detailed analysis of the Barracuda platform established…

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LSEG to increase its majority shareholding in LCH Group
January 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exactpro announces management buyout from London Stock Exchange Group

Exactpro Systems Limited and its subsidiaries (Exactpro), announced that EXPLORE123 Limited, a company incorporated by the founders of Exactpro, has completed the acquisition of Exactpro from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) on undisclosed terms. Exactpro is a specialist firm currently employing over 560 staff focused on functional and non-functional testing and software development of…

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CLS Group trading volumes
January 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group total volumes down 7% MoM in December

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market today published its operating metrics for the month of December 2017. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS in December was USD1.562 trillion, down 6.9 percent from USD1.677 trillion in November 2017. December 2016 November 2017 December 2017 Average…

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January 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

MiFID II winner: Investment research tech outfit Visible Alpha gets $38M led by Goldman Sachs

Visible Alpha today announced that it has secured an additional $38 million of equity financing. The company will use this investment to fuel its growth and maintain its position among firms driving efficiency, transparency and alpha generation in the institutional research process and helping solve for the research valuation and budgeting requirements of MiFID II.…

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safecharge results
January 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SafeCharge reports record Revenues in Q4-2017, December volumes top $1 billion

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has just provided the following pre-close trading update for the year ended 31 December 2017. The Group generated record revenues and transaction processing volumes in Q4, with the latter exceeding US$ 1 billion for the first time in December. This excellent Q4 performance followed a…

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