IHS Markit Brings Innovative New Features to Securities Finance Platform
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced the addition of new functionality to its Securities Finance platform, a leading source of data and intelligence on global securities financing transactions. The enhancements deliver public disclosure coverage for the Japanese market, a global data feed on corporate bond lending activity, an updated model for forecasting short interest in the US and multi... more
genesis launches Automated Quoting System to enhance fixed income trading workflows
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Trading Systems, Infrastructure
genesis, the international capital markets software firm, today launched the Automated Quoting System (AQS). Built with alpha-driven fixed income desks in mind, AQS will transform trading by automating internal workflows between the trading desk, institutional clients, asset managers and wealth managers, leaving traders free to focus on risk management and market opportunities.
RNN Group achieves first class financial planning with MHR Analytics
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
RNN Group, a leading education and training provider based in South Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire, incorporating Rotherham College, North Notts College and Dearne Valley College, has announced a partnership with MHR Analytics, the specialist provider of business intelligence and analytics solutions. The partnership will support the organisation’s finance team to overhaul its financial planning processes and stay ahead of the increasingly... more
Global Study: Majority of Organizations Plan to Digitally Transform, yet 84% of Businesses Stalled by Integration Challenges
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
MuleSoft, provider of the leading platform for building application networks, today announced the findings of the 2019 Connectivity Benchmark Report on the state of IT.
Cloud Elements Secures $25 Million Funding to Virtualize API Integration, Accelerate Digital Innovation
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Cloud Elements today announced $25 million in new funding to accelerate market adoption of its breakthrough API integration platform for software providers. The Series C round was led by Mercato Partners, with additional funding from existing investors Access Ventures, American Express Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Harbert Growth Partners, Rally Ventures, and Upslope Ventures. The new round brings Cloud Elements’ total capital raised to $46.2... more
SWIFT gpi reaches $40 trillion milestone at two year anniversary
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Security, Infrastructure
SWIFT today announces a major milestone in the take-up of gpi with more than $40trn transferred over the service in 2018. Rapid adoption saw the share of cross-border messages using gpi soar from 15% at the start of 2018, to 56% by the end of the year, a year-on-year increase of 270%. More than 3,500 banks, accounting for 85% of SWIFT’s total payments traffic, have committed to adopting gpi, evidencing how the service has achieved the near total... more
Horizons ETFs to track Solactive Index for Canadian Preferred Share ETF
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
Solactive is pleased to announce that Canadian ETF provider Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. (“Horizons ETFs”) utilizes the Solactive Laddered Canadian Preferred Share Index as the underlying index for the Horizons Laddered Canadian Preferred Share Index ETF (“HLPR”), which lists on the Toronto Stock Exchange today. The index includes more than 170 Canadian preferred share securities that generally have an adjustable dividend rate.
ConsenSys' PegaSys releases first Ethereum blockchain client for enterprise
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
PegaSys today announced the release of Pantheon 1.0 with permissioning and consensus features built specifically with enterprise requirements in mind. Pantheon 1.0 allows users to create private blockchain networks, with new customer support and training offerings.
Nivaura poised for growth following $20m strategic seed investment round
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Compliance, Infrastructure
Nivaura, a regulated FinTech company focused on automating the issuance and administration processes for financial instruments, has closed a strategic funding round, raising $20m in seed and seed extension capital from a number of prominent partners.
Financial Services Firms Update In-house Technology on a Reactive Basis
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
More than half (52%) of senior decision-makers in financial services organisations across the US and Europe, said they look to update or replace in-house solutions because they become technologically outdated. That’s according to a new in-depth study, commissioned by Asset Control. Further underlining the ongoing need to adapt their in-house technology, 49% of the sample said they were driven to schedule changes by ‘the increase in... more
More Than Half of UK SMEs Struggle with Spend Visibility
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
Less than a third (31%) of UK SMEs claim to have a clear picture of business spend at the end of each month but little visibility on a day-to-day basis, according to a new report commissioned by fintech provider Fraedom. The report also revealed that this lack of visibility is leading more than half (57%) of the sample to spend more than two hours per week on expense or financial management tasks, while 22% admitted having to regularly ‘spend... more
Attack on critical national infrastructure is imminent, say over half of respondents to Infosecurity Europe poll
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Security, Infrastructure
More than half (59 per cent) of respondents to the latest social media poll conducted by Infosecurity Europe 2019 – Europe’s number one information security event – believe that an attack on the UK’s critical national infrastructure is likely this year.
Dimelo, a RingCentral Company announces integration with WhatsApp Business solution
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Dimelo, a RingCentral Company, the leading cloud-based digital customer engagement platform, announces its integration with the WhatsApp Business solution that allows businesses to interact with customers in a fast and simple way directly through WhatsApp.
Treasury ‘cash grab’ ‘frustrating and misguided’ – R3
- 6 years 1 month ago
- Infrastructure
Commenting on today’s publication of a Government consultation on plans to repay HMRC ahead of pension schemes, trade creditors, and lenders in insolvency procedures, Stuart Frith, President of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3, says:
