Google reveals quantum supremacy experiment results
Physicists have been talking about the power of quantum computing for over 30 years, but the questions have always been: will it ever do something useful and is it worth…
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US Standing Repo Facility versus SOMA battle heats up (Premium)
Last month’s repo market turmoil in the US brought the idea of a Standing Repo Facility (SRF) back into the spotlight. Ahead of our Rates & Repo 2019 conference, we spoke…
Read More FT: Fidelity’s search for tomorrow’s tech amid fee compression
The investment industry has come under intense pressure in recent years, buffeted by falling fees and rising costs. Abigail Johnson — the founder’s granddaughter who picked up the reins five years ago…
Read More IHS Markit boosts dividend forecasting with advanced analytics
IHS Markit announced that it is using advanced analytics to more than double the number of companies covered by its Dividend Forecasting service. The expanded global service covers 28,000 stocks…
Read More Treasurytech Planixs adds AI into its real time liquidity products
UK-headquartered Planixs announced the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technology into its existing product suite, Realiti, which is built on cloud native tech platform Graphite. Graphite already contains built-in machine…
Read More BNP Paribas joins Allfunds to develop wealthtech platform
BNP Paribas and Allfunds announced that they have entered into an agreement to create a fund and wealthtech platform and develop next-generation fund distribution services. BNP Paribas intends to use…
Read More Institutional crypto weekly roundup
Our weekly list of announcements about how capital markets participants and regulators are engaging with digital assets. Standards association ANNA announces digital asset taskforce The Association of National Numbering Agencies…
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Top Stories: Rates & Repo 2019: what the buy-side needs to know about UMR; Clients of collateral technology vendors are working to solve new problems; Legacy Trust: from traditional to…
Read More ESMA: “room for improvement” in supervision of derivatives data under EMIR
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the results of a peer review it conducted into supervisory actions of six National Competent Authorities (NCAs) regarding their approaches for…
Read More Barclays and IBM publish research on quantum optimization application for settlement
Quantum computers process information using the laws of quantum mechanics. They are well suited for a number of tasks such as simulating quantum mechanical systems and factoring. Additionally, quantum computers…
Read More Nasdaq launches ESG futures in the Nordics
Nasdaq announced the launch of futures based on the recently launched OMXS30 ESG Responsible index (OMXS30ESG). The product is the first exchange listed and ESG compliant index future in the…
Read More Impact of risk-free rates transition on risk management
A private sector working group on euro risk-free rates issued recommendations to address the impact of euro risk-free rates transition on risk management. The working group on euro risk-free rates,…
Read More Basel Committee reports on Basel III implementation progress
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued the Seventeenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework. As noted by the Group of Central Bank Governors and…
Read More FCA publishes user suggestions in advance of data platform overhaul
Suggestions from 1,000+ users and other stakeholders of the FCA’s current data collection platform will help shape how the UK regulator will develop the new platform, with some key changes…
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Rates & Repo 2019: what the buy-side needs to know about UMR
On November 4th, Finadium’s Rates and Repo conference is coming to New York, bringing together money funds, treasury departments and other cash investors to engage with peer professionals and service…
Read More Bloomberg: Dimon says regulation limited J.P. Morgan from calming repo market
J.P. Morgan had the cash and willingness to calm short-term funding markets when they went haywire in mid-September, but the banking giant said regulations held it back. The firm has…
Read More Natixis, CIB, DBS, and National Bank of Canada among firms in collateral blockchain trial
Blockchain startup Ivno announced the successful completion of the first global token trial on R3’s Corda, hosted on Microsoft Azure. The Ivno Corda Trial was a world first with 28…
Read More MIT SMR-BCG releases AI Global Executive Study and Research Report
MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group surveyed more than 2,500 executives and conducted 17 interviews with leading experts to provide a data-driven view of what organizations that succeed…
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Legacy Trust: from traditional to digital asset custodian (Premium)
Legacy Trust is a traditional trust company based in Hong Kong that is spinning out a digital assets business, First Digital, on the back of demand for crypto custody. We…
Read More FSB reports that OTC derivatives reforms have plateaued
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published its annual progress report on the implementation of the agreed G20 reforms to over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. Overall there has been limited additional implementation…
Read More HKEX picks TNS for connectivity, managed hosting and market data access
Transaction Network Services (TNS) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) have signed an agreement for connectivity, managed hosting and market data access that will give financial market participants greater…
Read More Reuters: Deutsche Bank creating new tech division
Deutsche Bank is creating a new technology division in a strategy shift designed to reduce complexity and lower costs while transforming systems that have held back the bank for years.…
Read More London Stock Exchange launches Global Equity Segment for trading in international securities
Global Equity Segment (GES) offers trading in international companies such as Alibaba, Apple and General Motors on London Stock Exchange during London trading hours GES has attracted strong global interest…
Read More Institutional crypto weekly roundup
Our weekly list of announcements about how capital markets participants and regulators are engaging with digital assets. Bank of France’s Beau on the emergence of crypto assets in payments and…
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Top Stories: The Long and Short of US Prime Brokerage Pricing in 2019; See who is coming to Rates & Repo 2019; DTCC is eliminating settlement failure using automation; Finadium:…
Read More Clearmatics and XTX quant firm announce project for collateral management network
Clearmatics Technologies has been working closely with XTX Markets, a quantitative marketmaker, to build a member-owned network for the automation of collateral management and settlement. The network will focus on…
Read More DLT and suptech are priority projects for Switzerland’s central bank innovation hub
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have signed an operational agreement on the BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Switzerland which will identify and develop…
Read More FSB publishes UPI guidelines for Q3 2022 implementation
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a report on the governance arrangements for the globally harmonized Unique Product Identifier (UPI). The UPI will uniquely identify the product involved in…
Read More BoE research: regulators could use ML for advance warning system
In this paper, staff researchers from the Bank of England use novel data and machine learning techniques to build an early warning system for UK bank distress. They compare a…
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DTCC is eliminating settlement failure using automation
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is asking the market to imagine the kind of world automation is rapidly ushering in, where post-trade processing is characterized by “no-touch workflow” from…
Read More Eurekahedge: AI funds slump 1.2%, crypto funds down 10.6% in September
Fund managers using AI/machine learning strategies posted their third consecutive month of losses, as they slumped 1.24% in September. On a year-to-date basis, the Eurekahedge AI Hedge Fund Index is…
Read More Institutional crypto weekly roundup
Our weekly list of announcements about how capital markets participants and regulators are engaging with digital assets. The Block: crypto clearinghouse places trades without collecting collateral in decentralization push KeyTango,…
Read More NZH: fund managers beating AI-driven strategies so far
How good is artificial intelligence at managing money? To judge by the recent performance of some AI-driven strategies, it doesn’t look like the robots are going to take over from…
Read More DTCC exception manager service hits $100 billion, 90 firms signed on
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced that its Exception Manager platform has passed an important milestone, managing more than 2 million records related to 849,556 transactions/trades/exceptions and representing…
Read More Strands launches AI banking platform SaaS running on Oracle’s cloud
Oracle Open World 2019 set the scene for the launch of Strands Software-as-a-Service platform as it looks to deliver the first global enterprise-grade digital money management solution on the cloud.…
Read More Nature: “quantum gold rush” analysis
Governments and large technology firms have long nurtured quantum research, and in the past few years have announced billions of dollars for the field. As their support has ramped up,…
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Top Stories: Treasury Collateral Balances Soar; The data show whether the Fed has tamed US repo rates for now (Premium); SFM Magazine, Fall 2019, is now online; Regtech: when AI…
Read More Wells Fargo: US bank tech spend hits $150bpa; headcount to decline 200k over decade
According to a Wells Fargo analyst note, there is recognition in banking that tech can enable the biggest capital for labor swap in the history of the industry, thereby allowing…
Read More BNY Mellon: signs point to wider adoption of ETF collateral
The market for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has skyrocketed over the past quarter-century, thanks to the trillions of dollars investors are put¬ting to work in passive, index-tracking strategies. What hasn’t yet…
Read More Hudson Fintech launches repo platform based on video game tech
Hudson Fintech, the London-based technology firm, announced the launch of its front office technology platform for sell-side and buy-side institutions trading in the repo markets. The software captures and displays…
Read More Citi, J.P. Morgan and SocGen join UCITS ETF platform
HANetf, Europe’s first independent ‘white label’ UCITS ETF platform has confirmed a further tranche of Authorised Participants (APs) for its range of on-platform funds: Citigroup Global Markets, JP Morgan Securities…
Read More MLex: tech giants’ cloud services for banks under FSB scrutiny says Fed governor
Cloud services provided to banks by technology giants such as Amazon and Microsoft are being scrutinized by the international Financial Stability Board, US Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard said. Basel-based…
Read More BNY Mellon: “secular” forces of AI and ESG reshaping future of investment
Two secular forces are reshaping the future of investing. One is the rise of artifcial intelligence as a new heartland technology capable of disrupting every industry. The other is growing…
Read More BIS reviews market fragmentation trade-offs, questions connection to systemic risk
Market fragmentation can arise for a variety of reasons. Fragmented markets can reflect a range of natural barriers and frictions. These can include investor preferences as to the location of…
Read More [VIDEO] BBH on what asset managers need to know about AI
In a video from the FundForum International conference which took place in Copenhagen, BBH’s head of European Fintech Product Management, Simone Vroegop, explores the increasing role AI is playing in asset…
Read More ESMA’s 2020 plan lists data quality and analysis, supervisory convergence among priorities
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published its 2020 Work Programme (WP), setting out its priorities and areas of focus for the next…
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Regtech: when AI watches you, what will the regulator see?
Regulators want to disrupt the way they are regulating, and how advanced technologies answer critical compliance questions is going to determine the pace of travel, even while the direction seems…
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FISL Europe: how ESG investment is managed in securities lending programs
Last week’s Finadium Investors in Securities Lending conference in Paris was happening at the same time as the UN Climate Change Summit in New York, presenting an excellent opportunity to…
Read More CAIA: what makes alt-data different?
What makes alt-data different is that it is mostly a story about the size and structure of data sets that separately, or together, can potentially provide an information edge to…
Read More Get the weekly SFM update – our September 27 newsletter is online
Top Stories: Electronic RFQ repo markets and the social quest for liquidity; FISL Europe: securities lending deeply divided between optimism and pessimism; Asset manager thinking on counterparty default indemnification including…
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