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Payments Canada, Bank Of Canada And TMX Group Announce Integrated Securities And Payment Platform As Next Phase Of Project Jasper

Date 17/10/2017

Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada and TMX Group today announced a new collaboration to experiment with an integrated securities and payment settlement platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) as part of the third phase of the Project Jasper research initiative.

UK's Financial Conduct Authority: Rio Tinto plc Fined £27m For Breaching Disclosure And Transparency Rules

Date 17/10/2017

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Rio Tinto plc (Rio Tinto) £27,385,400 for breaching Disclosure and Transparency Rules (Disclosure Rules). 

Rio Tinto, Former Top Executives Charged With Fraud Worldwide Mining Company Alleged to Have Inflated Asset Values

Date 17/10/2017

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged mining company Rio Tinto and two former top executives with fraud for inflating the value of coal assets acquired for $3.7 billion and sold a few years later for $50 million.

Nasdaq Clearing Introduces Direct Clearing Client Model

Date 17/10/2017

• Enhanced model introduces direct relationship between client and CCP, designed to increase cost efficiency and client protection on both sell and buy sides.

ISDA Publishes Common Domain Model Concept Paper As First Step To Realize Potential Of New Technologies

Date 17/10/2017

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has today published a conceptual version of its ISDA Common Domain Model (CDM), which sets out the required elements to achieve a single digital representation of trade events and actions – an important precursor to realize the full potential of new technologies, such as distributed ledger and smart contracts.

Investment Association Annual Dinner 2017 - Speech By Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive Of The FCA, At The Investment Association Annual Dinner 2017

Date 17/10/2017

Highlights

• We are ready to roll our sleeves up and continue to make open markets work effectively.
• Our recommendations on fund governance and the effectiveness of boards and the role of independent directors are an important part of ensuring the interests of investors.
• We have established our new Asset Management Authorisations Hub, designed to ease what we recognise can be a complicated process of seeking authorisation for new asset managers.

Options Names Former Bloomberg And NYSE Technologies Executive To US Sales Team

Date 17/10/2017

Options, the leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has today announced the appointment of Jay Miller to its executive team. Miller joins the New York team as VP, Sales where he will be responsible for driving new business growth and supporting the firm’s client engagement model in the US.

Societe Generale Contracts With Trading Technologies For Global Distribution Of The TT Platform

Date 17/10/2017

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced it has entered an agreement with Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking to make the TT trading platform globally available to Societe Generale’s institutional trading client base. This move provides professional derivatives trading customers of Societe Generale’s electronic execution business with access to TT’s advanced trading technology, including Autospreader®, ADL®, charting and analytics, options trading and connectivity through the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol.

Mercury Derivatives Trading Contracts With Trading Technologies To Use The TT Platform:

Date 17/10/2017

Hertshten Group portfolio company, Mercury Derivatives Trading (Mercury), and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced Mercury have contracted with Trading Technologies to use the TT futures trading platform. In doing so, Mercury will further scale its business and infrastructure technology. Mercury will now be provided with access to all TT features including but not limited to Autospreader®, ADL®, charting, TT Mobile, and functionality for options trading and analytics. Users also will gain access to TT-connected markets globally.

CFTC Daniel Gorfine To Participate In A Panel Discussion At The Georgetown University Fintech Conference

Date 17/10/2017