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Capital Markets Union: European Commission Welcomes Agreement On Sustainable Investment Disclosure Rule

Date 07/03/2019

The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached by the European Parliament and EU Member States today on new rules on disclosure requirements related to sustainable investments and sustainability risks.
Corda Enterprise Selected By SIX Digital Exchange

Date 07/03/2019

Corda Enterprise, R3’s blockchain platform has been chosen by SIX, one of Europe’s leading Financial Market Infrastructures, to provide the underlying blockchain technology for its digital asset listing, trading, settlement and custody service, SIX Digital Exchange (SDX).
Intercontinental Exchange Announces Successful First Auction For Permian WTI Crude Oil Storage Futures Deliverable At Magellan East Houston Terminal

Date 07/03/2019

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced the completion of the first auction for the ICE Permian WTI Crude Oil Storage Futures (HOS), deliverable at Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.’s (NYSE: MMP) terminal in East Houston, Texas.
Sustainable Finance: EuropeanIssuers Statement On The European Parliament Compromise Amendments To The Taxonomy Regulation

Date 07/03/2019

With ever-growing climate-related protests, concerns and debates, sustainable finance is a truly relevant and challenging matter in today’s political environment. As a result of the green agenda- setting by politicians, tackling climate change has become a fundamental priority. In this regard, the European Commission proposed a Taxonomy Regulation to create a framework for sustainable finance. While EuropeanIssuers supports the Commission’s initial proposal, recent amendments made in the European Parliament by the ECON/ENVI Joint Committee have been a cause of major concern for companies. Therefore, on 6 March 2019, EuropeanIssuers issued a statement to 130 MEPs raising our concerns.
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.