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Intelligent Trading Summit Debates the Prospects of Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency is all the rage in capital markets, but how does it differ from other asset classes, how will it be regulated and what are its challenges and opportunities for trading firms and exchanges? A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City answered these questions and more, looking at both the…
White Oak Start-Up Automates Workflows with Eze Investment Suite
Singapore based White Oak Capital Partners, along with its White Oak group companies in India and Mauritius, have gone live with Eze Software’s Investment Suite to power their operations. The boutique investment management and advisory firms of White Oak, which were launched by Goldman Sachs Asset Management alumnus Prashant Khemka last year, went live with…
Galaxy Digital Invests $15 Million in Blockchain and Crypto Specialist AlphaPoint
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter AlphaPoint, a blockchain specialist that helps institutions launch cryptocurrency trading platforms and tokenise assets, has received a $15 million investment from Galaxy Digital, a digital asset firm and investor in the blockchain and crypto space. With AlphaPoint’s white label exchange and asset digitisation technology already in use in over 30…
Colt Offers US Network Connecting Multinationals to Europe and Asia
Colt Technology Services has introduced US operations offering multinational enterprises self-service and on-demand bandwidth for agile connectivity to their European and Asian operations. The connectivity is based on the Colt IQ Network, which is fully controlled by Colt in Europe and Asia, and connects 13 major cities in North America, including New York, San Francisco…
Deutsche Bank Transformation Moves Reconciliation Services to SmartStream
Deutsche Bank has selected SmartStream Technologies’ Centre of Excellence (CoE) to provide an off-site operations platform including three services that will allow the bank to streamline, simplify and reduce the costs of its reconciliations environment. The decision to use the SmartStream managed service utility is part of the bank’s transformation programme. The three managed services…
It’s Official – No Further Delays in the Use of LEIs Under MiFID II
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) confirmed today that the six-month delay to the mandate requiring the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for all issuers and counterparties to transactions under MiFID II will not be extended. The initial delay from January 3, 2018, when MiFID II came into play, to July 3, 2018…
DSB Technology Advisory Committee to Discuss Resiliency and Efficiency
The Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB) Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) set up earlier this month will hold its first meeting next Wednesday, June 27th 2018. Topics on the agenda range from infrastructure issues about the stability and resiliency of the DSB platform to usability issues related to download formats and increased efficiency. Many of the topics come…
Datactics Moves into Iceland with Contract Win at Arion Bank
Datactics has won its first customer in Iceland, Arion Bank, which will use the company’s RegMetrics and Single Customer View data quality solutions to support an enterprise data management programme. The bank selected Datactics after a competitive vendor selection process that included a technically demanding and tightly specified proof of concept across three departments, each…
Global Merces Selects SS&C Solutions to Support Growth
Australian alternative asset manager, Global Merces, has selected SS&C’s investment accounting, asset servicing and mutual fund platforms to support growth both locally and globally. The deal marks SS&C’s first Australian client win since it closed the acquisition of DST Systems earlier this year. Global Merces selected SS&C’s HiTrust unit registry and pricing solution because it…
MiFID II Research Unbundling Threatens Smaller Firms Most, According to RSRSCHXchange Poll
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Small asset management firms are bearing the brunt of MiFID II unbundling as they struggle to cope with substantial new research costs resulting from the regulation’s demand that firms pay for analyst research separately from trade commissions. With fewer resources with which to both buy research and implement regulatory compliance,…