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Prestigious FTF Awards Shortlist Velocimetrics As ‘Best Operational Risk Management Solution’

Date 07/03/2019

Fintech firm Velocimetrics, the leading provider of business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics, has been shortlisted as ‘Best Operational Risk Management Solution’ by the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. The awards were designed to recognise financial technology vendors and service providers which have made significant strides in operational excellence over the course of 2018. Created by FTF News, they are widely seen as a metric by which to gauge firms at the forefront of their respective fields in the post-trade space.
IPC Makes Strategic Investment In GreenKey Technologies, Creator Of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing Technologies For Financial Services

Date 07/03/2019

IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community announced today that it has completed a strategic investment in GreenKey Technologies (GK), creator of natural language processing workflows for the financial markets. IPC’s investment gives the company exclusive rights to GK’s next-generation machine learning voice technologies, uniting GK’s best-in-class markets and customer insight extraction with IPC’s trading communications expertise and cloud financial ecosystem of over 6,400 diverse market participants. As part of the transaction, IPC CEO Bob Santella joins the GK board of directors, and GK founder and recently reappointed CEO Anthony Tassone becomes an IPC advisor. Former GK CEO Nader Shwayhat rejoins GK’s advisory board.
XTX Markets Announces Two New Senior Appointments In Paris

Date 07/03/2019

XTX Markets announces the appointments of Serge Harry as Chairman of the Board of XTX Markets SAS and of Geoffrey Damien as Managing Director, Head of France.
ESMA Sets Out Its Approach To Several MiFID II/MiFIR And BMR Provisions Under A No-Deal Brexit

Date 07/03/2019

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published a statement on its approach to the application of some key MiFID II/MiFIR and Benchmark (BMR) provisions should the United Kingdom (UK) leave the European Union (EU) under a no-deal Brexit.
An Official Opening Of The Trading Session – “Ring The Bell For Gender Equality” Held At The Belarusian Currency And Stock Exchange On March 7, 2019

Date 07/03/2019

On the eve of International Women’s Day, the JSC "Belarusian currency and stock exchange" (BCSE) opened the market today to highlight a “Ring the Bell for Gender Equality” event for the first time.

Banco do Brasil London Branch Deploys CloudMargin Platform For Global Collateral Processing - Brazilian Bank Branch Improves Control And Efficiency In Managing OTC FX Transactions

Date 07/03/2019

CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, today announced that Banco do Brasil in London, a branch of one of Latin America’s largest banks, has deployed the CloudMargin platform for its global collateral processing. The branch is now fully onboarded to CloudMargin, using the platform to process collateral for its over-the-counter (OTC) foreign exchange (FX) transactions, including FX forwards and cross-currency swaps.
ESMA Report Values EU Alternative Investment Funds At €4.9 Trillion

Date 07/03/2019

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published its first statistical report on European Union (EU) Alternative Investment Funds (AIF). The study finds that the EU AIF sector in 2017, as measured by Net Asset Value (NAV), amounted to €4.9tn or nearly one third of the total EU fund industry. The report is based on data from 26,378 AIFs, or 80% of the market, and will be published annually.
Hong Kong’s Securities And Futures Commission Seeks Disqualification Orders Against Former And Current Directors Of Luxey International (Holdings) Limited

Date 07/03/2019

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has commenced legal proceedings in the Court of First Instance to seek court orders to disqualify the chairman and executive director of Luxey International (Holdings) Limited (Luxey), Mr Joseph Lau Chi Yuen, and the company’s former chief executive officer and executive director, Mr Chung Man Wai.
National Settlement Depository First CSD To Sign Up For SWIFT gpi

Date 07/03/2019

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository (CSD) has become the first CSD to sign up for SWIFT’s gpi service – a rapid cross-border payments service that provides real-time payments tracking and transparency on bank fees and foreign exchange rates.
SETL Announces Start Of Corporate Reorganisation Further To Successful Completion And Approval Of The Regulated CSD Development - Roadmap To Position Business For Strong Financial Future

Date 07/03/2019

In line with its 2018 strategic and operational plan, SETL the London based institutional payment and settlement infrastructure provider using blockchain technology, has focussed its resources on successfully developing and funding the establishment of the ID2S and IZNES platforms in Paris. Of particular note, SETL made significant capital contributions to ID2S, the regulated CSD. In October 2018, the platform successfully completed its T2S connection testing and was fully approved under CSDR.