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UBS and Asian Bank Pioneer Cross-Border Intraday Repo Trade on Broadridge’s Blockchain Platform
UBS and a global Asian bank have successfully executed the first cross-border intraday repo transaction on Broadridge Financial Solutions’ blockchain-enabled Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform. This milestone marks the launch of the next phase in the rollout of Broadridge’s DLR platform, a significant step towards a more efficient means of intraday liquidity management, building on…
Northern Trust’s Integrated Trading Solutions Experiences Rapid Growth
Northern Trust Capital Markets has experienced rapid growth in its Integrated Trading Solutions business, more than doubling over the past three years and adding 22 new clients in 2022 alone. The platform is being increasingly chosen by asset managers for their outsourced trading needs, with over 90 clients across the globe, including the US, UK,…
Why Tokenisation Can Turn the Noble Metal into Liquid Gold
By Anoushka Rayner, Head of Growth – Commodities at Paxos. Almost fifty years on from the termination of the gold standard, tokenisation is creating new possibilities for the noble metal – gold. The end of the Breton Woods system, which placed gold at the heart of currency valuation and thus international trade and financial markets,…
Horizon Software Certified on Montreal Exchange
Electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology provider Horizon Software has announced that it is now certified on the Montreal Exchange (MX). With the certification, Horizon’s clients can now trade exchange traded derivatives, including equity derivatives, currency options, index derivatives, and interest rate derivatives. Horizon is also now able to provide connectivity to financial institutions that…
The EU’s DLT Pilot Has Gone Live: What Does This Mean for Capital Markets?
With the EU’s DLT pilot regime now live, Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist at R3, examines the impact the programme will have on capital markets and what the launch means for the broader digitalisation of financial services. Against a backdrop of rising international competition, economic headwinds and technological innovation, jurisdictions across the globe are racing to…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2023
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2023. The awards, now in their third year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s platinum award winners include Moody’s Analytics…
Overbond Wins A-Team Group Award for Most Innovative AI in Trading Initiative
Overbond has won the award for Most Innovative AI in Trading Initiative in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2023. The awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. Overbond’s trading solution was selected as a…
How to Control Access to Single Dealer Portals and Other Market Services
Against the backdrop of rapid adoption of electronic trading across cash asset classes that aren’t typically traded on exchanges, financial institutions are struggling to control access to external trading portals and platforms, and other market services. This phenomenon is presenting a particular challenge in fixed income and foreign exchange markets, where single dealer portals that allow…
Trading Technologies Acquires AxeTrading, Adding Fixed Income to Multi-Asset Capabilities
Trading Technologies (TT), the trading software, infrastructure and data solutions provider, has acquired London-based AxeTrading, a global provider of fixed income trading solutions. The acquisition significantly expands TT’s multi-asset capabilities to cover corporate, government, municipal, and emerging market bonds, as well as over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate swaps, and bolsters TT’s standing in fixed income derivatives…
DTCC Launches New LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index Solution
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services, has launched its new LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index solution to support the industry’s transition from LIBOR benchmark rates to Secured Overnight Financing Rate Data (SOFR) and other new fallback rate indices. Market participants will be able to access the…