High Volumes Facilitated OCC’s Reduced Fees The Options Clearing Corp. (OCC), which describes itself as “the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization,” is cutting its clearing fee from four-and-a-half cents ($0.045) per equity derivatives contract to two cents ($0.02) per contract effective June 1, 2021, subject to regulatory review, officials say. “The two-cent clearing fee… Read More >>
ING & Credit Suisse Test Blockchain for Securities Lending
ING, Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd., and lending solutions provider HQLAX report that they have recently executed a live securities lending transaction valued at €25 million ($31 million) that was settled using a blockchain platform, Corda, developed by vendor R3. Called “a groundbreaking transaction,” Credit Suisse and ING officials swapped baskets of securities via the… Read More >>
ING Bond Traders Cut to the Chase via ‘Katana’
A.I. Tool to Bolster Decision-Making Rather Than Replace Traders With a Samurai sword in mind, ING is using an artificial intelligence (A.I.) tool, dubbed Katana, “to help bond traders make faster and sharper pricing decisions,” according to officials at the firm. The new tool has not been created to replace human traders but to “enhance… Read More >>
Broadridge Acquires Summit Financial Disclosure
Broadridge, Summit to Integrate Offerings Broadridge Financial Solutions recently announced that it has acquired Summit Financial Disclosure, a financial document management solutions provider in an effort to provide an end-to-end service. The acquisition will lead to the integration of Summit’s document composition and regulatory filing services with Broadridge’s proxy voting and shareholder communications services, officials… Read More >>
Four Banks Test DLT-Based ECP Platform
Enterprise software vendor R3 (formerly known as “blockchain consortium”) and four of its member banks — ABN Amro, Commerzbank, ING, and KBC — have developed a prototype solution for the issuance of euro commercial paper (ECP) on the group’s Corda distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform. Participants in the project say that it will prove to… Read More >>
