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News and Notes – Fintech

enterprise operations, FIS, KfW, risk management

German bank KfW has completed a multi-year risk management operations project using advanced technology from FIS. Before the change, KfW had been using different systems to report and manage market…

FIS launches venture arm, targets $150mn for fintech investments

April 28, 2020

News and Notes – Fintech

fintech, FIS, fundraising, Venture capital

FIS announced that FIS Ventures, the newly created corporate venture investment division of FIS, has launched an effort to invest a target of $150 million in promising fintech startups over…

FIS Astec shows European equity seclending volumes up 110% since Feb 1, US equities seclending up 16%

March 27, 2020

FIS, Securities Lending

The world is getting shorter: the last two months have seen asset borrowing volumes rise fast. European equity volume is up 110 percent since February 1, with US equities rising…

FIS: financial services tech confidence misplaced as competition heats up

June 12, 2019

News and Notes – Fintech

artificial intelligence, automation, cloud, data management, FIS, risk management

Financial services firms with advanced technology models continue to outgrow peers, according to FIS research. Key findings show that: FS firms with more advanced technology are growing over twice as…

Fintech weekly deals and partnerships roundup

Argentina’s MercadoLibre closes $2bn public and private offerings MercadoLibre, a Latin American e-commerce technology company, announced the closing of its $1.15 billion public offering, which includes the exercise in full…

FSB adds Groupe BPCE to G-SIB list, removes Nordea and RBS

November 16, 2018

FIS, G-SIB

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) today published the 2018 list of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) using end-2017 data and an assessment methodology designed by the Basel Committee on Banking…

DTCC Partners with Broadridge, FIS Global, Murex, RegTek.Solutions and SimCorp to Further Streamline SFTR Trade Reporting Processes

October 9, 2018

Broadridge, DTCC, FIS, Murex, RegTek.Solutions, SFTR, SimCorp

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced new partnerships with Broadridge, FIS Global, Murex, RegTek.Solutions and SimCorp…

FIS Adaptiv: Exposure Monitoring in a Fully Margined World

September 26, 2018

Adaptiv, exposure monitoring, FIS, risk

In a perfectly margined world, variation margin (VM) and initial margin (IM) should cover both current and potential future exposure with a highdegree of confidence. In this case, under certain provisos,…

FIS Video: The Economics of Collateral and Making a Profit, Part 1 (at theotcspace.com)

August 1, 2016

collateral management, FIS, OTC derivatives, OTC Space

In this video of the webinar, originally broadcast on the 28th of June, our panel discusses the latest research into the effects of mandatory clearing and bilateral margining on your collateral…

Banks look to optimize vendors and service providers as well as collateral (Premium)

March 10, 2016

Collateral Management, Europe, Technology

collateral optimization, Euroclear, FIS, outsourcing, topstory, tri-party

When overhauling collateral management systems, choosing vendors requires its very own optimization strategy, said speakers and panelists at a recent London meeting. Internal infrastructure, tri-party agents and third party service…

Fidelity Information Systems to purchase SunGard Data Systems

August 12, 2015

FIS, SunGard