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Sumsub Partners With Chainalysis To Enhance Compliance And Monitoring For Crypto Clients - Sumsub’s Transaction Monitoring Solution For Crypto Is Now Upgraded With Market-Leading Blockchain Analytics Provided By Chainalysis.

Date 12/03/2024

Today Sumsub, a global full-cycle verification provider, announces its integration with Chainalysis, the world’s leading blockchain data platform. This partnership combines Sumsub's Transaction Monitoring and Travel Rule solutions with Chainalysis’ extensive blockchain analytics platform and services, enabling regulatory compliance, secured data storage and automated crypto transaction monitoring for client companies.

CUSIP Global Services Adds Climate Bonds Initiative's Green Bond Data To Global Data Feeds - Partnership With Climate Bonds Initiative Expands Coverage Of ESG Data Attributes Globally

Date 12/03/2024

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced an alliance with the Climate Bonds Initiative (Climate Bonds), an international organization working to mobilize global capital for climate action, to add green bond data attributes for corporate and municipal bonds in its global data feed and desktop products. The new green bond tags will enable fixed income market participants to instantly identify and categorize securities that contain specific environmentally sustainable growth attributes, based on Climate Bonds' internationally recognized taxonomy for evaluating green finance principles and establishing green bond standards.

SIGMA Financial AI Hires Rachel Przybylski As Chief Product Officer

Date 12/03/2024

• Former Head of Business Delivery, Man Technology
• Market structure, technology and financial markets expert.
• Managing growing client demand and the product roadmap strategy

Keynote Of CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam At The FIA Boca 2024 International Futures Industry Conference, Boca Raton, Florida - “Stay Golden”

Date 12/03/2024

Introduction

Good morning and thank you, Alicia, for the kind introduction.

There may be a few FIA Futures Hall of Fame members in the audience who know or can recall the origin of the CFTC.  This October, the CFTC will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974.  The Act established the CFTC as an independent agency with exclusive jurisdiction over futures trading in all commodities.  Next year, we will mark the 50th anniversary of the swearing in of the first four Commissioners and the official transfer of authority from our predecessor in the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the CFTC.  This 50th milestone is referred to as a golden anniversary or jubilee.

Market Resilience, Non-Bank Financial Institutions And The Central Bank Toolkit – Practical Next Steps− Speech By Nick Butt, Bank Of England Head Of The Future Balance Sheet Unit - Given At ISDA Virtual Conference On Procyclicality And Margin Practices

Date 12/03/2024

In this speech, Nick Butt, the head of the Future Balance Sheet Unit, outlines the importance of non-bank financial institutions to financial stability in the UK. He explains why this means we must take steps to improve their resilience and also develop tools that can address dysfunction in core markets when it can cause a threat to financial stability. And he outlines the practical next steps the Bank is taking to do this.

FlexTrade Integrates With Coinbase Prime  - Expanding Access To Digital Asset Liquidity Through Coinbase Prime 

Date 12/03/2024

FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announces a direct integration with Coinbase Prime, the leading institutional prime broker platform for digital and crypto assets.  

Broadridge Launches Global Futures And Options Fully Hosted Trading Platform To Expand Derivatives Trading Capabilities - Broadridge Creates A Platform Delivering Competitive Advantages For The Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) Community Through The Introduction Of Innovative And Disruptive Technologies

Date 12/03/2024

Designed to transform order and execution management capabilities for sell-side institutions, global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), announced today the launch of its global Futures and Options Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, expanding its existing derivatives trading capabilities. A top 3 FCM has signed as an anchor client.

DTCC’s FICC Treasury Clearing Volumes Grow 31%, Now Represent USD$7 Trillion In Daily Average Activity - FICC Sponsored Service Also Experiences Growth, With Sponsored Service Buyside Volumes Increasing By 74% And Sponsored Member Firms Increasing By 60%

Date 12/03/2024

DTCC, the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) Treasury clearing volumes have grown 31% year over year, processing a daily average volume of USD$7.019 trillion. This growth comes at a time when market participant firms are assessing the impact of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new requirements that expand the application of central clearing to certain U.S. Treasury repo and secondary market cash transactions.

Sustainable Markets Initiative Joins Its First Trade And Investment Mission To Antigua & Barbuda And Pledges To Support Country

Date 12/03/2024

• Antigua & Barbuda to be a country of focus for the Sustainable Markets Initiative's activities in the Caribbean, helping advance its climate resilience as well as green and blue economy priorities in line with their Nationally Determined Contributions.
• Trade and Investment Mission a key step in consolidating existing partnerships and identifying opportunities, and represents the first time the Sustainable Markets Initiative has been invited by a host government to join such a mission.
• CEO Jennifer Jordan-Saifi stresses the transition to a sustainable future is the growth story of our time, and an opportunity for Antigua & Barbuda to leverage the support of the global private sector to meet its ambitions.

FIA Announces New Board Members At Boca 2024

Date 12/03/2024

FIA today announced the election of three new directors at its annual meeting in Boca Raton, Florida.