News search | Securities Finance Times

Generic business image for news articles

PolySign set to acquire digital fund administrator MG Stover
14 April 2022 United States
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

US technology company PolySign is to acquire digital fund administrator MG Stover to offer its institutional investor clients a custody and administration offering for cryptocurrency and digital assets. The acquisition is expected to complete in Q2 2

PASLA welcomes new executive committee members
13 April 2022 Asia Pacific
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Sean Greaves, Karim Chabane and Poya Bozorgi have been appointed as executive committee members at the Pan-Asia Securities Lending Association

BrokerTec launches next-generation Stream platform
13 April 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Existing BrokerTec Stream clients will migrate to the new platform in Q4 2022 for enhanced processing times, faster market data, as well as liquidity and matching opportunities

FIS joins forces with Fireblocks for access to digital asset wallet technology
13 April 2022 United States
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

FIS has partnered with Fireblocks, a digital asset custody, transfer and settlement platform, to move, store and issue digital assets, and gain access to self-custody digital asset wallet technology

Everaert and Beattie appointed heads at CME
12 April 2022 Global
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Michel Everaert joins CME Group as head of EMEA at CME’s London office, while Russell Beattie becomes head of Asia Pacific at the firm’s Singapore branch

DTCC and Digital Dollar Project test CBDC in trade clearing and settlement
12 April 2022 US
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation has released a prototype, developed in collaboration with The Digital Dollar Project, to examine how a central bank digital currency (CBDC) may operate in the US clearing and settlement infrastructure

Provable Markets forms alliance with FIS
12 April 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The partnership will integrate Provable Markets’ Aurora service and FIS’ Securities Lending Processing Platform, to allow NSCC members and sponsored access firms entry to DTCC’s SFT Clearing Service

Goldman Sachs completes acquisition of NN Investment Partners
11 April 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The €1.7 billion agreement will integrate NN Investment Partners into GSAM, with the Netherlands becoming an important location in Goldman Sachs’ European business and a ‘centre of excellence’ for sustainability in public markets investing

Nexo releases prime brokerage digital assets platform
11 April 2022 UK
Reporter: SFT

Integrated prime brokerage platform, Nexo Prime, aims to provide investors with the tools needed for trading, lending, borrowing and custody support for their digital assets in a single solution

SteelEye announces launch of its new Order Book Replay service
08 April 2022 UK
Reporter: Jamie Wallace

Compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye launches its new market replay solution designed to facilitate more precise market abuse surveillance

RepoClear cleared nominal hits new Q1 highs at Ltd and SA
08 April 2022 UK, France
Reporter: Bob Currie

Combined activity across RepoClear’s Paris and London operations reached a record €67.47 trillion in cleared nominal for Q1 2022, as post-Brexit regulatory recognition extended for LCH Ltd and SA

Geoffrey King joins Lord Abbett
08 April 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

King, former head of North American fixed income securities lending trading at Blackrock, will join Lord Abbett as G10 rates and derivatives trader