German Index provider Solactive AG has just announced that, in addition to the successful establishment of its Toronto office in January 2018, the company has now set up its second international business entity in Hong Kong. The new office houses a dedicated team of professionals who provides customized indexing solutions for ETFs and other index-linked…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has announced the results of a benchmark study which demonstrated for the first time ever that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is capable of supporting average daily trading volumes in the US equity market of more than 100…
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Itiviti, the global provider of multi-asset trading technology and financial infrastructure, has announced a new partnership with Capital Crux, a Hong Kong based digital consulting firm with its headquarter in Shanghai. Capital Crux has joined the Itiviti Global Alliance Programme (GAP) as a Business Introducing Partner (BIP), supporting Itiviti’s business development efforts in mainland China.…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it achieved Asia Pacific quarterly average daily volume (ADV) of 726,000 contracts in the third quarter of the year, up 4% from the corresponding period last year. This was driven largely by a strong performance in Equity and FX products, up 41 percent and 36 percent respectively.…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it has received clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act from the United States Department of Justice - Antitrust Division for its proposed acquisition of London listed NEX Group plc (LON:NXG). CME and NEX have announced earlier this year that CME will be buying NEX in a £3.9 billion (USD $5.4…
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Orvium, the first decentralized social platform for scientific collaboration, funding and publications management based on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, has today announced that it has been recognised as a Standard Technology Partner of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network, enabling the organisation to provide software solutions that are integrated with the AWS Cloud. The…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) has just finalized its planned uses of proceeds from the recently completed sale of a 55% interest in its Financial & Risk (F&R) business. The company also announced that its Board of Directors approved an US$0.02 annualized dividend increase to US$1.40 per share. As previously disclosed, the company is…
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Gil Mandelzis is coming home, doing a deal with his old employer NEX / Traiana. NEX Optimisation (formerly Traiana), which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, and Mandelzis' Capitolis, a pioneering technology provider for the capital markets, have just announced they will collaborate in a partnership to provide immediate access…
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Validus platform now integrated with CQG Eventus Systems, Inc., a provider of innovative regtech software solutions for the capital markets, has just announced that FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has gone live as a client. GAIN has deployed Eventus’ cloud-based version of the Validus platform to manage the market surveillance program for its…
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Global financial technology and social trading group ayondo Ltd and Huanying International Limited (“Huanying”) have informed that they are establishing a collaboration through a white label agreement to grow trading opportunities for Huanying’s clients in Asia, and in particular, China (the “Collaboration”). It is envisaged that under the Collaboration, ayondo and Huanying will partner to…
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