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Google and GFT partner for DLT innovation
29 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

GFT is utilising the Google Cloud Platform to rapidly deploy the code developed by its client development teams into GFT’s blockchain incubator to simulate real-word scenarios...

SEC agrees next step in T+2 transition
29 September 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has voted in favour of shortening the standard settlement cycle for broker-dealer securities transactions from T+3 to T+2...

Calastone reinforces China-HK market connection
29 September 2016 Hong Kong
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Calastone has strengthened its position in the China-Hong Kong market by enabling direct connectivity with Shenzhen Securities Communications Company (SSCC)...

Sibos: Easier standardised than done
29 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Standards mean different things to banks and corporate treasurers, but they should collaborate to make them work, according to speakers in a debate session at Sibos...

LSEG considering sale of LCH SA
29 September 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is considering selling its stake in LCH SA, the French arm of LCH group, in response to anti-trust concerns from the European Commission...

Sibos: Financial services should lead ‘new era’ of tech, says IBM head
28 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Cognitive technology will give financial services firms a competitive advantage, as long as they seize the opportunity, keynote speaker Ginni Rometty told Sibos attendees...

Custody and investment: never the twain shall meet
28 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The blurring of custody and investment business lines among global systemically important banks can create a “high level of risk with regard to asset safety”...

Tax services top the outsourcing list
28 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Tax services have been identified as the function to most successfully outsource, according to 52 percent of respondents to a SIX Securities Services survey...

Raiffeisen Bank tackles Basel III principles
28 September 2016 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Raiffeisen Bank has implemented SmartStream’s cash and liquidity reporting solution...

Guernsey funds increase year-on-year
28 September 2016 St Peter Port
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The net asset value of all funds under management and administration in Guernsey stood at £247.1 billion at the end of June 2016, an increase of £9.1 billion since the end of March, according to the GFSC...

Broadridge extends GPTM solution
28 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Broadridge Financial Solutions has expanded its global post trade management (GPTM) solution with cash management capabilities...

Sibos: Do the time to prevent cyber crime
28 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning increase the threat of financial cyber crime, and the financial services industry must be prepared in case of an attack...