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OpenFin Announces OpenFin For Salesforce On Salesforce AppExchange, the World's Leading Enterprise Cloud Marketplace - OpenFin's Customers Can Now Benefit From A Seamless Integration Creating Great Customer And Employee Experiences.

Date 23/01/2024

OpenFin, today announced it has launched OpenFin for Salesforce on Salesforce AppExchange, a leading enterprise marketplace for partner apps and experts, empowering customers using Salesforce Financial Services Cloud to instantly integrate Salesforce with other applications. Used by 90% of the top global banks, OpenFin's client-side technology brings together apps and data into one unified desktop. Enterprises can now connect their workplace applications—third party, native, or web—to empower teams to be as efficient as possible.

Kroll Adds Luxembourg Leader To Head Valuation Advisory Team - Elena Moisei Joins Kroll As Managing Director, Portfolio Valuation

Date 23/01/2024

Kroll, the leading independent provider of global risk and financial advisory solutions, announced today that it is continuing its global strategic growth plans in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with the appointment of Elena Moisei as a managing director within the firm’s Luxembourg Portfolio Valuation practice.

CFTC Commissioner Goldsmith Romero To Address Commodity Market Council’s Board Of Directors And Executives At 2024 State Of The Industry Conference

Date 23/01/2024

Michael Chin Appointed CEO Of Data Automation Leader Duco

Date 23/01/2024

Duco, the #1 SaaS provider of AI-powered data automation, today announced that Michael Chin has been appointed CEO effective as of January 23. He succeeds the company’s founder Christian Nentwich, who steps down as CEO after over 10 years. The announcement comes on the back of continuous high growth over the years. Duco was acquired by Nordic Capital in 2021 and has since further accelerated its transformative growth and expansion.

BaFin Increases Focus On IT Risks

Date 23/01/2024

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) considers cyberattacks and the breakdown of IT systems among the greatest risks for the financial sector. Such technical disruptions pose risks not only when they occur at banks or insurers themselves: major problems at third-party service providers can also compromise the entire system. These risks are detailed in the report “Risks in BaFin’s Focus 2024” published by BaFin on 23 January 2024.

CME Group And DTCC Launch Enhanced Treasury Cross-Margining Arrangement, Enabling Capital Efficiencies For Clearing Members

Date 23/01/2024

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced their enhanced cross-margining arrangement has gone live, enabling capital efficiencies for clearing members that trade and clear both U.S. Treasury securities and CME Group Interest Rate futures.

Nasdaq Capital Access Platforms Launches Leading Indicator For IPO Activity - The “Nasdaq IPO Pulse Index” Leverages A Data-Driven Approach To Provide Corporates And Investors With An Approximate Six-Month Forecast Of Directional Shifts In IPO Activity

Date 23/01/2024

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced its Capital Access Platforms division launched a new leading indicator to provide corporates and investors with an outlook for the direction of initial public offering (IPO) activity with a high degree of predictability six months out. The “Nasdaq IPO Pulse Index” suggests an upswing in potential IPO activity when it is in an uptrend – it is now at its highest level since 2021 – compared to a pullback in IPO activity when the index is trending in the other direction.

ThinkMarkets' Position As A Fintech Leader Reinforced By Innovation Award For Traders' Gym

Date 23/01/2024

ThinkMarkets, a multi-regulated, multi-asset online trading firm, is pleased to announce another significant milestone in its journey towards innovation. Traders' Gym, the advanced backtesting tool exclusively available as a standout feature on ThinkTrader web, has been conferred the prestigious 'Innovation Award' by ForexBrokers. This acknowledgment serves as a powerful testament to ThinkMarkets' unwavering commitment to technological advancement in the trading sector.

CCP Global Responds To The US Basel III Endgame And GSIB Surcharges Proposals

Date 23/01/2024

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are inviting public comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking (proposal) that would substantially revise the capital requirements applicable to large banking organizations and to banking organizations with significant trading activity.

CCP Global Responds To The CFTC NPR On Investment Of Customer Funds By FCMs And DCOs

Date 23/01/2024

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission” or “CFTC”) is proposing to amend its regulations governing the types of investments that futures commission merchants (“FCMs”) and derivatives clearing organizations may make with funds held for the benefit of customers trading futures, foreign futures, and cleared swap transactions.