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  • Fintech: Spunta, 100 Banks Operating On The Sector Blockchain

    Date 13/10/2020

    In Italy it is fully operational the Italian banking sector blockchain. Since October, around 100 banks have been operating on Spunta, the nodes network. The third group of banks have entered into operation, using interconnected nodes in the bilateral accounts’ reconciliation. In this way, the technological infrastructure of nodes is working for the banking sector and for Italy. The latest addition of banks has entered into operation, on top of the 23 operational since May and the initial group of 32 that started in March. Spunta Banca DLT (Distributed ledger technology), the project promoted by ABI and coordinated by ABI Lab, is fully operational for the interbank reconciliation process. As of today, around 100 banks have access daily to their own nodes to manage this interbank process, that moved from a traditional slow and labour intensive exchange of telephone calls and messages to a solution that leverage a frontier technology that streamlines and automates the reconciliation of transactions. 

  • LCH SA To Clear EU’s SURE Bonds

    Date 13/10/2020

    • €87.4 billion of loans  will be provided to 16 EU member states through EU’s SURE programme
    • LCH SA to support the EU SURE programme by clearing these Bonds
    • Clearing provides enhanced risk management, liquidity and efficiencies to market participants
    • Members will benefit from clearing at RepoClear’s deep netting pool of EUR debt

  • BNP Paribas Asset Management Launches First Blue Economy ETF

    Date 13/10/2020

    • BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) announces the launch of the first blue economy ETF (exchange-traded fund), BNP Paribas Easy ECPI Global ESG Blue Economy UCITS ETF.  The ETF is listed on Xetra and Euronext and has a TER[1] of 0.30%.
    • The fund aims to invest in companies from the global developed market which are the best placed to seize opportunities provided by the sustainable use of ocean resources.
    • It tracks the ECPI Global ESG Blue Economy index, an equally-weighted index providing exposure to 50 large caps selected for their sustainable participation in the blue economy.  The index conforms to UN Sustainable Development Goal (‘SDG’) 14: ‘Life below water'.

  • Invesco’s MSCI World UCITS ETF Tops USD2 Billion In AuM As Investors Switch To Low-Cost Synthetic ETFs

    Date 13/10/2020

    Invesco’s MSCI World UCITS ETF has passed USD2 billion in assets under management, having grown 62% in AuM across 2020. The synthetic ETF, which tracks the performance of the MSCI World Total Return Index, has outperformed comparative physical ETFs and delivered better tracking error for investors across the year.

  • KGI Securities (Singapore) Rolls Out New eFX Pricing In SG1 With MaxxTrader Solution

    Date 13/10/2020

    FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, announces its client KGI Securities will launch the KGI MaxxTrader’s electronic foreign exchange (FX) pricing and trading engine in Singapore.