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Misys and Message Automation tackle reg reporting

06 June 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Financial services software provider Misys has built a regulatory reporting component in conjunction with Broadridge’s Message Automation for MIFiD II compliance. It can also accommodate SFTR

SIX x-clear adjusts CCP risk model

01 June 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

SIX x-clear has recalibrated its inter-central counterparty risk models in order to improve accuracy

DLT poses fragmentation risk in EU, warns ECB

30 May 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The increase in distributed ledger technology poses a risk of market fragmentation in the EU, but regulation should not hamper development, according to Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank

Raccat launches securities finance dealership platform

25 May 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

BNP Paribas’s David Raccat has decided to go it alone with the launch of Wematch.SecuritiesFinancing, a web-based tool aiming at disrupting the dealing process of securities financing markets

R3 raises record funds for DLT development

24 May 2017 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The R3 group has raised $107 million in two tranches of fundraising, securing the largest ever investment in distributed ledger technology to date

Lacklustre T2S take up drives volume drop-off

23 May 2017 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Clearstream warns of T2S’s failure to galvanise the market as its monthly volume slips 13 percent for April

Chile to launch securities lending blockchain

18 May 2017 Santiago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Chile’s Santiago Exchange is partnering with IBM to leverage Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric for a short selling and securities lending blockchain solution by December

BrokerTec and MTS expands RepoFunds Rate suite

16 May 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Fixed income trading platforms BrokerTec and MTS have added Dutch and Belgian repo indices to the RepoFunds Rate suite

Northern Trust and Donnelley tackle admin

09 May 2017 Chicago
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Northern Trust and Donnelley Financial Solutions have teamed up to provide mutual fund administration clients with an automated process for the collection, creation, review and filing of disclosure documents

Delta Capita acquires Appendium

27 April 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

Business and technology consultancy Delta Capita has acquired Appendium as it gears up to launch a securities finance utility later this year

Squawker launches equity finance platform

27 April 2017 London
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

The new platform provides a central hub for European equity finance participants to bring the execution of their equity hedge trades on-exchange. Squawker said six investment banks are participating

NEX Group pairs ENSO and RSRCHX for MiFID II solution

25 April 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The NEX Group's ENSO, a centralised treasury management solution for the buy side, is set to expand its broker vote tool to include research consumption for the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

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