UCL (University College London) has agreed a £280 million loan with the European Investment Bank to develop its Bloomsbury and UCL East campuses, the largest sum ever lent by the bank to a university.

The 30-year loan will provide funding for UCL’s Bloomsbury campus in central London which is undergoing an ambitious programme to upgrade and expand its historic buildings as well as finance for the building of UCL East, the university’s new site at the Queen ElizabethOlympic Park in east London.

The arrival of Nxchange makes it possible to place and trade securities on a regulated platform without the intervention of a bank or broker being required. Companies can activate their network and communities to raise capital both on the central trading platform of Nxchange and using an integrated module on their own websites. A traditional IPO is usually an expensive and complex matter.

Elixium, a new EU-regulated Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) for collateral and secured deposits, has announced it will launch in May 2016. 

Elixium has been developed to address the growing need for a transparent, open to all, peer-to-peer, regulated marketplace. It seeks to address the growing liquidity concerns that have emerged as a result of changes in regulation and the subsequent composition and availability of balance sheets. 

ACI Worldwide  announced that The Co-operative Group (Co-op), one of the UK’s largest food retailers, has selected the company to run its card payments processing operations and maximise card data security across all of its UK food stores and fuel sites. The retailer, with over 2,800 stores, will utiliseACI’s UP Merchant Payments solution to secure its payment data with the latest version of its point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and tokenisationcapabilities.

Analytic software firm FICO today announced that its groundbreaking AI-based Cyber Analytics will be available as part of the iboss node-based, direct-to-cloud, containerised platform, a leading solution for cybersecurity and malware protection. FICO’s Cyber Analytics models will improve detection of attacks, including new or “zero-day” attacks. The announcement was made during the FICO^® World 2016 conference in Washington, DC.

JPX, one of the world’s largest financial marketplaces, has chosen Cinnober for risk monitoring across the entire Japanese market of equities, bonds, futures, options, CDS and IRS. This follows an announcement earlier this year where JPX selected Cinnober for the clearing of the exchange’s listed derivatives market.

Computershare and SETL have today demonstrated Australia’s first working blockchain solution at Computershare’s annual Investor and Analyst day.

The two companies are also pleased to announce a joint initiative to establish securities ownership registers using blockchain technology.

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