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ACCX Group Secures FCA Licence for Crypto Derivatives Marketplace
ACCX Group (UK) Limited, the digital asset exchange group, has achieved a significant milestone by obtaining a licence from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for a regulated and centrally cleared derivatives marketplace. The platform is designed to offer financial institutions cash-settled futures and options based on a robust benchmark index of cryptocurrencies, in order…
Kaiko Partners with DataBP to Enhance Data Licensing and Sales Automation
Cryptocurrency data provider Kaiko has integrated with DataBP’s data licensing management platform, aiming to enhance its sales, billing, and entitlement processes. This collaboration promises to streamline Kaiko’s global operations by employing DataBP’s SaaS platform and Salesforce.com API, which will automate the creation of custom data licensing agreements, data access entitlements, and customer billing. The integration…
Exactpro Wins Award for Most Innovative Professional Development Initiative in A-Team Group Innovation Awards 2024
Exactpro has won the award for Most Innovative Professional Development Initiative in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2024. These annual awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies and techniques to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. Exactpro’s professional development initiative was selected as an…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2024
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2024. 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 with a focus on data management, trading technology, RegTech or ESG. This year’s…
T+1 Accelerators Showcased at Symphony Innovate 2024
With less than 30 days until the May 28 T+1 implementation for US markets, collaboration platform operator Symphony last week used the occasion of its annual Symphony Innovate event to highlight three innovations that promise to significantly accelerate the resolution of post-trade exceptions. The new capabilities, which build on the company’s foundational secure communication platform,…
Unpacking the FCA Wholesale Data Market Study: Insights from Industry Insiders
Market participants were left scratching their heads in response to the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) decision not to act to address the high cost of data following the February 29 release of its Wholesale Data Market Study. The study was the end result of a process launched in March last year amid concerns that…
New FIA EPTA Study Reveals Unreported Liquidity in EU and UK Equity Markets
A recent study by the FIA European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA), ‘Mind the Transparency Gap,’ has highlighted a significant underreporting of equity trading volumes in both the EU and UK markets, which has led to misconceptions about the actual market liquidity available in these regions. According to the report, a large volume of equity…
Why Automation is Going to Dominate in the Race to T+1
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. Tick-tock tick-tock, the clock is ticking down to one of the most pivotal moments in financial markets this decade. This coming May will mark the transition to T+1 settlement for equities and bonds transactions in North America. To add to the complexities, CLS confirmed last week it will…
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Adopts DTCC’s ITP Services to Support U.S. T+1 Settlement Transition
DTCC has announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management is utilising its Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) services to enhance trade processing efficiency ahead of the U.S. financial market’s transition to a T+1 settlement cycle on May 28, 2024. The suite includes DTCC’s CTM for central matching, M2i workflow, TradeSuite ID, ALERT, and Settlement Instruction Manager,…
R3 and Quant Selected to Develop Prototype for UK’s Regulated Liability Network
R3 and Quant have been chosen to create the technology prototype for the UK’s Regulated Liability Network (RLN) experimentation phase, an initiative led by UK Finance and supported by EY. This project aims to establish a unified platform facilitating various financial transactions using tokenised and traditional commercial bank deposits. The RLN will serve as a…