Deutsche Bank Creates Combined Post to Oversee Corporate and Investment Banking Deutsche Bank reports that Pascal Boillat will join in the newly created post of chief information officer and head of operations to oversee corporate and investment banking. The appointment is effective February 1, 2016, bank officials say. In another combined post, Boillat will report… Read More >>
SETL Hits Milestone via Internal Test of Blockchain Network
SETL, a recent fintech startup that means to apply virtual network Blockchain technology to financial services settlements, reports that its internal test network has “broken the 1 billion transactions-per-day capacity barrier.” The announcement comes as the FIX Trading Community, the messaging standards non-profit formed in 1998, reports separately that it has formed a working group… Read More >>
CEO: ‘[SETL Platform] Will Be 100 Times Faster’
Officials at the Blockchain startup SETL are developing a platform that they say will allow securities trading firms to settle transactions in an instant, automated and decentralized fashion. FTF News, which previously profiled the startup, sat down with Anthony Culligan, the CEO for SETL to get an update. Culligan’s career includes directorships with Robert Fleming… Read More >>
SETL Jumps Into Blockchain Race
There’s a new contender in the race to bring Blockchain technology to bear on the financial world’s post-trade infrastructure. SETL, a new startup, announced Monday that it plans to begin marketing a multi-asset, multi-currency institutional payments and settlements infrastructure based on Blockchain technology. The venture is led by Peter Randall, who made a name for… Read More >>