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CoInvestor bolsters team with three new hires
19 December 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

CoInvestor has made three new hires in a bid to boost adoption of its software for financial advisers and fund managers

Citi and CME Clearing launch collateral DLT platform
18 December 2017 New York
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

The blockchain software aims to reduce margin cost

FCA feedback addresses operational risks in DLT
15 December 2017 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Distributed ledger technology could bring both benefits and risk to the financial services space, but could ultimately “enhance operational soundness”, according to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority

Blockchain proxy voting pilot proves solution’s scalability
15 December 2017 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

AST Financial and NuArca have completed a successful scaled-up pilot of their blockchain-based proxy voting solution, ahead of its planned launch in March 2018

Beta Capital chooses Broadridge for self-clearing shift
15 December 2017 Miami
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Broadridge has been selected to provide a front-to-back office operations solution for broker-dealer Beta Capital Wealth Management, to support its move to self-clearing

Commcise partners with RSRCHXchange for MiFID II
14 December 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The collaboration allows research consumption data to be passed from the RSRCHX platform to Commcise via an API

Euronext’s ARM and APA approved
14 December 2017 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Euronext has been approved by the French regulator to provide approved publication arrangement and approved reporting mechanism services to investment firms in Europe, under MiFID II

Automated derivatives processing platform gets Citi and J.P. Morgan on board
14 December 2017 New York
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

truePTS is intended to automate derivatives processing, removing the operational risks of manual processes and addressing regulatory and cost pressures in the space

Murex to run MX.3 platform on AWS cloud
13 December 2017 Paris
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Murex has collaborated with Amazon Web Services to allow its clients to deploy, test and optimise its MX.3 platform on the cloud

Northern Trust appoints Edwin Chan
13 December 2017 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Edwin Chan has joined Northern Trust to head up sales across the alternatives fund sector in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Firms remain open to exposures from manual processes
13 December 2017 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Only 2 percent of capital markets companies have a fully automated compliance support programme, leaving firms open to risk from manual processes, according to a survey by Aite Group and Cordium

Oslo Connect receives regulatory upgrade
12 December 2017 Stockholm
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Baymarkets Technology is to upgrade Oslo Børs’s OTC system, Oslo Connect, to support regulatory demands such as those under the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II)