ASX Stakeholders Ask for More Time The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) reports that it has set April 2023 as the new launch date for its blockchain-based replacement for the incumbent Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), citing the need for more time to refine the platform to come. The new launch date follows a tentative… Read More >>
LabCFTC Replaces ‘Fintech Forward’ with Virtual Events
‘Empower Innovation 2020’ to Launch in the Fall LabCFTC, the fintech incubator of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will launch “interactive virtual events throughout the fall,” as a replacement for the 2020 Fintech Forward conference. The in-person conference has been canceled “in light of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic,” officials say. The three-part series has… Read More >>
LabCFTC Wants Your FinTech Contest Ideas
In case you were wondering, LabCFTC, the CFTC’s FinTech initiative, is asking the public for ideas and subjects for innovation competitions “to advance the agency’s FinTech goals,” and to help the regulator advance its array of IT tools. “We launched the LabCFTC initiative to stimulate and promote market-enhancing FinTech solutions,” says CFTC Chairman J. Christopher… Read More >>
CFTC & U.K.’s FCA Join Forces on FinTech Push
CFTC and FCA Sign Agreement to Collaborate The U.S. CFTC and the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report the signing of an agreement that “commits the regulators to collaborating and supporting innovative firms through each other’s fintech initiatives” — LabCFTC in the U.S. and FCA Innovate in Great Britain. The heads of both regulators saluted… Read More >>
CFTC Launches NYC-based FinTech Lab
CFTC Wants to Jolt FinTech Innovation U.S. regulator, the CFTC has created a financial technology laboratory, LabCFTC, intended to promote innovation to improve “the quality, resiliency, and competitiveness of the markets the CFTC oversees,” officials say. LabCFTC, which will be located in New York, also exists to “accelerate CFTC engagement with FinTech and RegTech solutions… Read More >>