Choice! Natural Gas, a portfolio company of inter-dealer broker OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH), has completed its first bitcoin-denominated futures block trade through CME Clearing
Vela has expanded its systematic internaliser data hub offering with Virtu Financial, part of its second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) solution suite
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
15 December 2017New 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
14 December 2017New 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
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)
A Swift report found that automation rate of orders processed by Luxembourg TAs reached 84 percent in Q2 2017, while Irish TAs saw higher automation rates of 90.6 percent, remaining relatively steady
