Another news today from LCH, as the company announced that it has extended its RepoClear service in LCH SA, its continental Europe-based entity. The Paris-based clearing house is now offering clearing for cash and repo trades on Belgian government bonds. Belfius Bank and KBC Bank were among the first members to clear the new product…
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LCH Ltd, a global clearing house, announced that it has established deposit and liquidity facilities with Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden. LCH is now able to settle its Swedish Krona payments via RIX, the central bank’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) platform. LCH is also a direct member of RIX. Provides LCH’s UK…
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Aggregation and connectivity solutions provider PrimeXM has announced that it has been collaborating Java runtime solutions specialist Azul Systems and its Azul Zing to further facilitate the low latency nature of PrimeXM’s proprietary order routing service, the XCore. Zing is a unique Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that has been deployed extensively throughout the financial sector industry.…
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REGIS-TR, the pan-European specialist in G20 trade repository services has just announced that it will collaborate with IHS Markit (NASDAQ:INFO), a critical information, analytics and solutions company, to provide a full service reporting solution for Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) requirements. IHS Markit recently announced that BNY Mellon, Brown Brothers Harriman, Deutsche Bank Agency Lending,…
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) today announced it will exercise its right to redeem all of the company’s US$1 billion principal amount of 6.50% notes due on July 15, 2018 (CUSIP No. 884903 BB0). The redemption price will include an early repayment premium, as well as accrued and unpaid interest through the redemption date (which is expected to be…
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The vast majority of European traders have observed a shift from active towards passive investing In the latest Trader Survey conducted by SIX, over 88% of respondents have confirmed this development – and 72% expect this shift to continue. Highlights include: 88% of traders have seen a shift from active towards passive investing and 72%…
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AxiomSL, the provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, today announced the strategic partnership with German technical and regulatory support provider GridCon to leverage its German reporting know-how and extensive knowledge on data models for risk free data migration and address the new client data transition demand in the market. The reason AxiomSL chose…
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Fluent Trade Technologies (Fluent) today announced that it has partnered with Moscow Exchange (MOEX), Russia’s main trading and clearing platform for equities, bonds, derivatives and currencies, to provide clients and prospects with simple and secure access to the MOEX UAT integration and testing environment. Fluent provides a turn-key solution, supporting ultra-secure and safe connectivity to…
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Information Publishing PLC has announced the acquisition of CapitalTrack, a data provider of Floating Rate information to the Fixed Income market. We are pleased to welcome the CapitalTrack clients, suppliers and team into the Information Publishing PLC family, and to be adding their first-class database – covering Floating Rate, Asset Backed and Structured Securities markets…
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Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB) today announced that it has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with PICC Property & Casualty Company of China that will leverage Chubb's global capabilities in support of PICC's customers and other Chinese-affiliated companies around the world in line with the Chinese government's drive to promote the country's "Going Out" and…
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