Technology news

Matrixport strikes partnership with Copper

16 May 2023 Singapore
Reporter: SFT

This collaboration will reinforce Matrixport’s prime brokerage solution by enabling institutional customers to keep their assets within Copper infrastructure while being able to trade on ClearLoop-linked exchanges via their Matrixport sub-accounts

Euroclear and BondCliQ launch fixed income settlement data product

15 May 2023 Belgium
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Euroclear has partnered with data-as-a-service company BondCliQ to offer a new fixed income settlement data solution

BIS publishes guidance on use of CBDCs for offline payments

11 May 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Bob Currie

The study, published by BIS Innovation Hub Nordic Centre, evaluates how central bank digital currency payments could be made without access to the Internet, an essential consideration for resilience planning and for CBDC payments in remote locations

SmartStream and Acadia collaborate on collateral management solution

10 May 2023 Luxembourg
Reporter: Lucy Carter

SmartStream’s Transaction Lifecycle Management collateral management solution will be available through Acadia’s Margin Manager, alongside the latter’s substitutions workflow product

TradFi and DeFi should be used in tandem, Securities Finance Technology Symposium panellists say

09 May 2023 US
Reporter: Lucy Carter

Traditional finance and decentralised finance can and should exist in tandem, speakers on the ‘TradFi vs DeFi’ panel at this year’s Securities Finance Technology Symposium in Boston affirmed

BoE and BIS conclude DLT-based Project Meridian

19 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Bank for International Settlements and Bank of England have completed their joint initiative named Project Meridian, which was the first programme to be completed by the BIS Innovation Hub in London

ICJ, TSE and Broadridge launch digital vote execution service

31 March 2023 Japan
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The joint venture aims to accelerate end-to-end automation of proxy voting to Japanese issuers and enable the Japanese market to improve corporate governance practices

ICMA introduces bond data taxonomy

14 March 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: SFT

The International Capital Markets Association has released a bond data taxonomy (BDT) that provides a common, standardised language to facilitate STP across the bond transaction lifecycle and reduce inconsistent use of data in securities issuance