The European Securities and Markets Authority has acknowledged a number of benefits that distributed ledger technology could bring, including greater post-trade efficiency, enhanced reporting capabilities and reduced costs
Euronext has set out a timeline for the implementation of its new post-trade solution, offering risk analytics, inventory management and collateral transformation services for bonds, equities and commodities
13 February 2017Hong Kong Reporter: Stephanie Palmer
EquiChain has released a working prototype of its blockchain solution for global capital markets, with plans to implement a full end-to-end custody pilot this year
10 February 2017New York Reporter: Stephanie Palmer
The International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication has formed a new industry trade group focused on developing best practices in the collateral management lifecycle
26 January 2017Kuala Lumpur Reporter: Mark Dugdale
Prime broker Maybank Kim Eng Securities has signed up with multi-asset brokerage and trading provider PFSOFT to give its prime services clients access to global equity and derivatives markets using Protrader...
Pirum Systems has linked its real-time straight-through processing services for the securities finance industry to ColleX, a platform for collateral trading...
18 January 2017Frankfurt Reporter: Stephanie Palmer
Four members of the Liquidity Alliance are collaborating with Deutsche Boerse to build a blockchain-based prototype for cross-border collateral transfer...
