Tag: Barclays

June 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Four senior Barclays executives charged by UK Serious Fraud Office in Qatar fundraising

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced that has today charged Barclays Plc and four individuals with conspiracy to commit fraud and the provision of unlawful financial assistance contrary to the Companies Act 1985. The four people charged, former senior executives with Barclays PLC, include: John Silvester Varley (age 61), the former Chief Executive Officer of…

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March 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from Barclays entities

Yesterday, ASIC accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from three Barclays foreign financial service providers (FFSPs): Barclays Capital Inc. (BCI) domiciled in the United States of America Barclays Capital Asia Limited (BCAL) domiciled in Hong Kong, and Barclays Capital Securities Limited (BCSL) domiciled in the United Kingdom, collectively 'the Barclays entities.' As part of the terms…

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January 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

DTCC selects IBM, Axoni and R3 to develop its distributed ledger solution for derivatives processing

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, just announced that it has selected IBM, in partnership with Axoni and R3, to provide a distributed ledger technology (DLT) framework to drive further improvements in derivatives post-trade lifecycle events. The firms will work collaboratively to re-platform DTCC’s…

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Bank of China (UK) Limited joins LCH’s SwapClear
November 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH to launch LCH SwapAgent, a centralised service for the non-cleared derivatives market

The global clearing house LCH has announced today that it will be launching a new service for the non-cleared derivatives market. LCH SwapAgent will benefit from LCH’s expertise in serving and managing risk for the cleared rates & FX derivatives market, providing market participants with a number of solutions designed to materially improve standardisation, efficiency…

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August 04, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CFTC orders Barclays to pay $800,000 for supervision failures

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Barclays Capital, Inc. (Barclays), a Connecticut corporation headquartered in New York City which operates as a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc, for failing to diligently supervise its officers’, employees’, and agents’ processing of exchange and clearing fees it…

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March 03, 2016 BY Mike Fox

R3 trials blockchain fixed income trading with 40 banks

The trial marked an unprecedented scale of institutional collaboration between the financial and technology communities exploring how distributed ledgers can be applied to global financial markets. Just released is a major blockchain announcement from financial technology innovation company R3 CEV. In short, they connected 40 banks to five different blockchains and allowed them to facilitate…

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December 14, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Paysafe shares drop 9% as CVC and Investcorp sell their stake in the company

Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) saw its shares plummet 9% on Friday, as two of its major shareholders exited their investment in the payment services company. Private investment firms CVC Capital Partners and Investcorp Technology Partners announced late Thursday their intention to sell their entire 7.3% stake in Paysafe, comprising 35.1 million Paysafe shares. The shares were to be…

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December 08, 2015 BY Mike Fox

OpenFin to open-source its financial desktop HTML5 container technology

OpenFin, the New York and London based fast-growing financial technology provider, today announced that for the first time it is open-sourcing its market-leading HTML5 container technology for financial desktops. The development aims to promote further community collaboration as OpenFin is being used by over 20 of the world's leading banks, buy-side firms and trading platforms. OpenFin…

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