Michael Spencer, city tycoon and founder of market operator ICAP, now NEX Group, has decided to make a substantial contribution to a new UK fintech fund. Spencer plans to invest at least £25 million in the UK fund Element Ventures, through his private holding company IPGL. This is one of the largest investments made by…
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Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (AMBD) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have announced earlier this week that they have decided to expand their cooperation. Both sides have signed an enhanced Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Bilateral Cooperation at the 3rd AMBD-MAS Bilateral Roundtable. The enhanced MoU builds on the longstanding cooperation between both countries…
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LiquidityBook reported yesterday record growth for sales and clients in 2019. LiquidityBook is a New York based fintech firm that provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for buy- and sell-side trading solutions. The company attributes its record gains and accomplishments to the increasing interest of investment managers in its portfolio, order and execution management systems (POEMS) platform. The…
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Clearstream and UBS to embark on a long term partnership in investment fund services, Deutsche Börse Group announced yesterday. Clearstream is to acquire 51 per cent of Zurich-based fund distribution platform Fondcenter AG for CHF 389 million. UBS will keep the remaining 41 per cent of the shares according to a joint agreement between the…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just published its operating metrics for the month of December 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.60 trillion, down 0.5% from USD1.61 trillion in November 2019. Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS by product…
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TriOptima, the multilateral compression provider that lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC markets, has announced that counterparties using the triReduce CLS FX compression service have eliminated $9.1 trillion of gross notional value from their FX forward portfolios in 2019. This new record equates to an annual increase of 71%. LeapRate reminds that the company…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) has just announced that its London-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd., executed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire GIROXX GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. Closing is conditional upon the approval of the German regulator BaFin. Through its digital platform, GIROXX GmbH provides online payment and foreign exchange hedging services to small…
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LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has announced two new London-based hires for its EMEA Client Service Team. James Pearson and Abdullah Al Nasiri will be joining the team, respectively as a Technical Implementation Analyst and a Client Services Analyst. Pearson will be responsible for onboarding projects, and will be…
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Swiss platform services provider AlgoTrader AG has announced today that it has completed a new round of financing from institutional growth investors. This series A round totaling CHF 3.7 million was led by an undisclosed global Tier 1 bank and was joined by investiere, BlockChain Valley Ventures and the seed-round investor NeueCapital. Andy Flury, CEO…
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Global clearing house LCH has just announced that 2019 was another record year for volumes across multiple asset classes. Activity in its OTC derivatives and fixed income clearing services as well as its SwapAgent franchise exceeded 2018’s volumes. Daniel Maguire, CEO, LCH, and Group Director, Post Trade, London Stock Exchange Group, commented: 2019 has been…
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