Pioneering Indian tech firm WandX (https://www.wandx.co/), led by CEO Abhinav Ramesh, will launch a token sale on Friday 27 October to fund the building of its groundbreaking platform, which will allow investors to create and trade in derivative products based on crypto-assets. Expectation around the token sale is high and a pre-sale raised 530 Ether (approximately $150,000) in only 36 hours. Read more »
QuantHouse, the independent global leader of end-to-end high performance market data and trading API based technologies, today announced that Horizon Software, the leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, has joined the qh API Ecosystem to benefit from global reach and end-to-end performance. Read more »
BUX today announces that it has raised a €10.6 million Series C funding round in order to undertake ambitious product expansion. Read more »
Torstone Technology, a leading global provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced that CLSA, a leading Asian capital markets and investment group, has signed a multi-year deal to use Inferno and is now live with the solution, which will bring greater efficiencies to its post-trade processes. Read more »
Murex, an industry leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets, announces it has certified its MX.3 technology platform to run on Microsoft Azure. Since early 2016, Murex has collaborated with Microsoft to bring to market solutions enabling clients’ digital transformation. This collaboration has now come to fruition with the availability of support for the Murex MX.3 platform on Azure, as well as the planned... more Read more »
HSBC, the world’s leading trade bank, has introduced a Matched electronic Purchase Order (Me-PO) financing solution to dramatically improve the release of working capital. The Me-PO solution, developed by Bolero, will reduce the cost of invoice and purchase order processing between HSBC business customers and their suppliers, who will benefit from being able to make earlier requests for finance. Both parties will appreciate having a new level of... more Read more »
FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, and Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions announced today that they are collaborating to enable real-time payments and cash management for their corporate treasury customers. Using the CitiConnect® application programming interfaces (APIs), FIS has connected its Trax corporate payment factory to the suite of Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions - enabling seamless integration with Citi’... more Read more »
Murex, a global leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions, is pleased to announce the successful launch of the MX.3 SaaS solution at ATB Financial. Murex SaaS is a managed services offering for the MX.3 platform, encompassing infrastructure and application management. Read more »
As experimentation and development of new fintech applications continues to grow, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today unveiled a new framework of nine key factors to assess when considering its impact on financial stability. Read more »
Horizon Software (Horizon), the leading global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, today announced that Guohai Liangshi Capital Management Co Ltd (GHLS),the subsidiary company of Guohai Futures, has chosen Horizon’s platform for options market making and trading, as well as delta one trading. Read more »
Surecomp, the leading global provider of trade finance solutions for banks and corporations, announced today that IMEX®, a back-office trade finance solution has been awarded ‘SWIFT Certified Application – Trade Finance’ for the 19th consecutive year. Read more »
Alpha is pleased to announce the admission of its ordinary shares to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Dealings will commence at 8:00 a.m. today, under the ticker "AFM" and the ISIN GB00BF16C058. The Company has raised £125.4 million through the placing of 22,017,652 new and 56,364,512 existing ordinary shares at a price of 160 pence per share. Berenberg acted as Sole Global Coordinator and Broker for the transaction and... more Read more »
Today sees the official UK launch of Revista Systems; a new firm created to support the specialised communications needs of the financial services community. Read more »
A2X Markets (A2X), South Africa’s newest stock exchange, made its debut this morning with three listings and four of the industry’s leading brokers on board. A2X competes directly with the JSE and provides an alternative platform for companies to secondary list and trade their shares. Financial services companies, African Rainbow Capital Investments (AIL), Peregrine Holdings (PGR) and Coronation Fund Managers (CML) are the first counters to take... more Read more »
Thomson Reuters has launched Fixed Income Callouts, a flexible and transparent App on the Eikon platform that facilitates the negotiations and agreements of fixed income bond trading terms within banks in country and across African markets, improving price discovery, market monitoring, execution and market transparency. Read more »
