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Inaugural EDHEC-Risk Smart Beta Day In Partnership With ERI Scientific Beta To Take Place In Amsterdam On October 13

Date 22/09/2016

The inaugural EDHEC-Risk Smart Beta Day Europe, organised by EDHEC-Risk Institute in partnership with ERI Scientific Beta, will take place at The Amstel Intercontinental in Amsterdam on October 13, 2016. The one-day conference will showcase the latest conceptual advances and research results in smart beta investing.

MillenniumIT Showcases Real-Time Post Trade Technology Capability

Date 22/09/2016

• Millennium PostTradeTM is a real-time CCP clearing, settlement and risk platform, designed to enable harmonisation and operational savings across business lines
• Enables real-time cross-asset portfolio risk management, while improving operational resilience and reducing running costs
• Modern integrated IT framework will boost business agility and reduce time to market, supporting current and future work-flows
• Includes innovative use of graphics processing unit (GPU) technology to provide real-time risk management

SWIFT Examines Application Of Financial Business Standards To Distributed Ledger Technology And Smart Contracts - New Paper Highlights Opportunity For Financial Industry To Coordinate Efforts Using Common Messaging And Data Standards

Date 22/09/2016

SWIFT announces today the availability of a new paper investigating the application of business standards to distributed ledger technology (DLT) and smart contracts (SC). The paper examines the need for the financial industry to find agreement on the format of shared data, business processes, roles and responsibilities so that these new technologies can be used to efficiently address complex problems in financial services.

Liquidnet Expands Execution And Quantitative Services Team - Two New Hires Further Grow The Firm’s Execution Consulting Service For Institutional Investors

Date 22/09/2016

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today announced the appointments of two senior hires to its European Execution & Quantitative Services (EQS) team. Launched in 2014, the EQS group advises Liquidnet’s buy-side Members and institutional clients on algorithmic strategies, trade analytics, and quantitative products and services.

KGI Selects The Technancial Company To Manage Risk And Grow Their Business

Date 22/09/2016

KGI Ong Capital and The Technancial Company (TTC) announced today that KGI will utilise TTC’s JANUS™ Risk Manager platform (JRM) to enhance their client services with real time monitoring.

BrokerTec And MTS Add Spain Index To RepoFunds Rate - New Addition Expands Successful Hedging And Price Discovery Indices

Date 22/09/2016

BrokerTec, ICAP’s global electronic fixed income trading platform, and MTS, a leading fixed income electronic trading venue in Europe that is majority-owned by the London Stock Exchange Group, announce today that they are further expanding the RepoFunds Rate (RFR) indices by adding a Spanish Repo index. RepoFunds Rate, launched in 2012, is a series of daily European indices covering the German, French, Italian and Pan-European Repo markets.

LSEG Signs MoU With Bank Hapoalim To Support Israeli High Growth Companies

Date 22/09/2016

• Partnership will see LSEG’s ELITE and Bank Hapoalim collaborate to attract new Israeli companies to ELITE
• ELITE is London Stock Exchange Group’s international programme for ambitious high growth businesses
• Group’s first Capital Markets conference in Israel targets high growth Israeli companies– offering them access to London’s international capital markets
• LSEG appoints permanent Israeli representative

Ancoa Becomes A Trayport Certified Software Provider

Date 22/09/2016

Trayport, a leading provider of energy trading solutions to traders, brokers and exchanges worldwide, announced today that Ancoa has been successfully accredited as a Trayport Certified Software Provider (CSP).

SIX Securities Services And Digital Asset Partner To Develop Distributed Ledger Technology For Swiss Financial Market - Firms Sign Agreement To Build Prototype For Securities Lifecycle Processing Using Digital Asset Platform

Date 22/09/2016

SIX Securities Services, the post-trade infrastructure operator for the Swiss financial sector, and Digital Asset Holdings, a developer of distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, today announced plans to develop a proof of concept that will demonstrate the commercial viability of distributed ledger technology across the Swiss financial market, with an initial prototype for securities lifecycle processing. The two firms will also develop a roadmap for future opportunities spanning the whole market infrastructure value chain.

London Fintech Almax Analytics Emerges From Stealth With An Advanced Artificial Intelligence Engine - Big Data Gets Organized With A Real-Time News Analytics System For Capital Markets

Date 22/09/2016

Almax Analytics, a software platform delivering actionable insights, announced today they have emerged from stealth (development) with a customer ready product for the Financial Markets. Almax debuted in January 2016 as an Innovative Company to Watch by KPMG Luxembourg and quickly built demand and investor interest, thereby closing the seed round April 2016 to develop this first to market technology.