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Bitpanda Partners with Eventus for Enhanced Trade Surveillance Compliance
European cryptocurrency platform Bitpanda has selected the Validus platform from Eventus to enhance its trade surveillance capabilities and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. This strategic move aims to bolster Bitpanda’s defences against market abuse, manipulation, and insider trading through advanced automation. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Bitpanda operates across multiple European locations, including…
Citi Partners with Google Cloud to Advance Digital Strategy with AI and Cloud Integration
Citi has entered a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate its digital transformation using cloud technology and artificial intelligence. The collaboration aims to modernise Citi’s technology infrastructure, migrate key workloads to Google’s secure cloud platform, and enhance both employee and client experiences. The agreement includes moving several Citi applications to Google Cloud’s infrastructure, which…
IPC Systems and Kerv Launch Cloud-Based Compliance Solution for Financial Services
IPC Systems has partnered with Compliance-as-a-Service provider Kerv to introduce a new solution aimed at simplifying regulatory compliance in the financial sector. The collaboration combines IPC’s global trading network and cloud infrastructure with Kerv’s expertise in compliance management, creating a platform that supports multi-channel communications compliance. The new service leverages Kerv’s Compliance Cloud to help…
Clearing the Way: Baymarkets on the Evolution of Clearing Systems
Q&A with Peter Fredriksson, Chairman of Baymarkets. Earlier in the summer, Abaxx Technologies went live with the Clara clearing platform from independent clearing systems vendor Baymarkets, to power its recently established Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse in Singapore. Abaxx Clearing will use Clara to manage its initial lineup of five centrally-cleared, physically-deliverable futures contracts…
Paving the Way to T+1: Automation is Essential for the UK’s Settlement Shift
By Paul Chambers, Xceptor. With the UK’s move to T+1 settlement cycles expected to be a game-changer for financial markets, the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce has been drawing on lessons from North America’s T+1 transition. One such lesson from across the Atlantic is that insufficient automation led to increased manual processing and exception management, putting…
SDX and RULEMATCH Partner to Provide Institutional-Grade Crypto Trading & Settlement Solution
SDX, the Zurich-based digital asset infrastructure subsidiary of SIX Group, has partnered with RULEMATCH, the institutional crypto and digital asset trading venue, to deliver a comprehensive, institutional-grade, end-to-end solution for the digital asset market, aimed at addressing the challenges of efficiency, security, and compliance for banks and financial institutions. This collaboration marks a significant step…
Exemptive Relief Expiry Alert: Fidessa Prepares for February 2025 CAT Deadline
The long-running consolidated audit trail (CAT) project has been a major industry achievement but with a compliance deadline rapidly approaching, exemptive relief on some particularly complex reporting issues is due to expire in February 2025. RegTech Insight caught up with ION’s Douglas Craig, Senior Product Manager at Fidessa who had raised concerns on the complexity…
Smart Trader Desktops: Placing UX at the Front and Centre of the Trading Workflow
No matter how advanced the technology stack or feature-rich the interface, a trading platform’s true effectiveness lies in the experience and the results it delivers. As user experience (UX) becomes increasingly crucial to the success and efficiency of trading platforms, designers face new challenges. So how can UX design keep up, enhancing performance without sacrificing…
Algo Certification in Electronic Financial Markets under MiFID II
Q&A with Nick Idelson, Co-chair FIX Algo Trading Working Group & Technical Director, TraderServe Limited. Since the introduction of MiFIR and MiFID II in January 2018, investment firms engaged in algorithmic trading have been required to certify that “the algorithms they deploy have been tested to avoid contributing to or creating disorderly trading conditions”[1], explain…
AiMi Launches AI-Powered Platform to Streamline Capital Markets Infrastructure Management
Fintech company AiMi, the trading and market data infrastructure management solutions provider, has introduced a new AI-powered platform designed to automate and optimise access to capital markets infrastructure. The platform helps firms efficiently manage changes to trading venues’ platforms, services, and APIs, addressing the growing complexity and volume of notifications from global exchanges and vendors….