We are hit every day with a seemingly endless flow of news stories about cataclysmic events. But a terrorist attack upon the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi on Monday, June 29, still shocked the world. By the time the attack was over, the four armed, separatist terrorists leading the attack were shot dead, according… Read More >>
Get Ready for the FTF Awards 2019
Never mind the Golden Globes, the Oscars or any of the other awards events, the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2019 are about to get underway. We will kick off the first step via the nominations process, which begins Monday, January 7. The nomination categories can be found here. You will have until January… Read More >>
Global Stock Exchanges Steam Ahead
Despite political and economic uncertainty, global stock exchange groups have powered through, generating strong results in the first half of 2017. Total revenues hit $14.7 billion, up 4.1 percent from a year earlier and an annual record is expected to be set by the end of the year, according to a recent report from consultancy… Read More >>
Exchanges, Clearinghouses, CSDs Embrace DLT with Caution
The world’s largest securities exchanges, clearinghouses and central securities depositories (CSDs) are exploring the possibilities of blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT). But concerns remain as to whether the technology will deliver the promised goods of a more streamlined and efficient world, according to a new survey conducted by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the… Read More >>
Bloomberg Launches Website and API for Instrument Identifiers
Bloomberg is targeting exchanges, data providers and custodians with an online utility and mapping tools that help to identify, map and request instruments that conform to the vendor’s global, open standard for identifying financial instruments, the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Bloomberg recently launched OpenFIGI.com and the OpenFIGI API (application programming interface) to further the… Read More >>
Digital Asset Lands A-List Backers and $50M in Funding
Digital Asset Holdings, LLC, a New York City-based developer of distributed-ledger technology for the financial services industry, reports that it has “raised more than $50 million in funding” from several prominent financial industry players. The company’s new investors are: ABN AMRO, Accenture, ASX Ltd., BNP Paribas, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., Citi, CME Ventures, Deutsche Börse… Read More >>
Orient Securities Moves Into Shanghai Stock Exchange Market
Orc, a specialist in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, reports that China’s Orient Securities Co. Ltd. has picked Orc’s Trading Bricks platform for its options market making operations on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). Trading Bricks “will support Orient Securities’ expanding market making operations in China,” Orc says in a statement, which notes also… Read More >>
Borsa İstanbul to Buy LME’s Stake in LCH.Clearnet
Turkish exchange Borsa İstanbul will acquire the London Metal Exchange’s stake in clearinghouse LCH.Clearnet, under an agreement that will also see Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx), LME’s parent company, partner with Borsa İstanbul on the dissemination of market data, according to an LME statement. “Under the terms of the agreements, the LME will license… Read More >>
GMEX Tech Expands Wares via Stake in Avenir
Global Markets Exchange Group International, a group of companies offering exchange services and support, has taken “a strategic stake” via its GMEX Technologies Ltd. (GMEX Tech) subsidiary in Avenir Technology Ltd., an English vendor providing post-trade software. The inclusion of Avenir’s offerings will enable GMEX Tech to offer an “end-to-end market infrastructure eco-system” of solutions… Read More >>
JPX Taps Nasdaq to Build Osaka Exchange
Japan Exchange Group (JPX) and Nasdaq have partnered to build a next-generation derivatives trading system for the JPX subsidiary Osaka Exchange, officials say. In addition to the trading system, which will operate on Genium INET technology, Osaka will tap SMARTS Market Surveillance for its real-time surveillance needs, supplied by Nasdaq technologies. “We are proud and… Read More >>
