BMO Financial Group will be using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider for a “digital first” strategy that will be implemented across BMO as a “scalable and highly available” platform for many businesses, including capital markets operations. BMO will move “strategic workloads to AWS that support its retail and commercial banking, investment… Read More >>
FNZ-GBST Merger Under Scrutiny in the U.K.
CMA Starts Phase 2 Review of FNZ-GBST Union A U.K. regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is moving ahead with a formal investigation into FNZ’s acquisition of GBST Holdings Ltd., following a recent announcement that CMA officials were mulling this next step. “On 30 March 2020, the CMA decided that it was or may… Read More >>
BMO Capital Markets Explores Blockchain for Fixed Income
Pilot Involves Canadian Dollar Fixed Income Issuance Transaction BMO Capital Markets has successfully launched a pilot project for a fixed income issuance transaction that is “mirrored on a blockchain platform alongside leading pension fund investor Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers),” officials say in a prepared statement. “The transaction included Bank of Montreal as… Read More >>
BMO Capital Markets to Analyze Execution Performance
BMO Capital Markets is partnering with quantitative analytics vendor Trade Informatics (TI) to apply transaction cost analysis (TCA) tools to its algorithmic trading flow with the goal of improving execution quality for clients, officials say. The investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group “will begin seeing actionable analysis from the engagement after onboarding… Read More >>
