Tagged: capital markets

July 7, 2023 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has released a report which sets out three key missions “to accelerate the digital transformation of the UK’s capital markets.” The report ‘Unlocking the power of securities tokenization’, produced in conjunction with Oliver Wyman, looks at “how securities tokenization (the digital representation of… Read More

June 9, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company helping to create safer and more vibrant capital markets, has “gained significant momentum in its Portfolio Optimization business in the first half of 2023.” The company’s latest optimization run “drove a record reduction of $341 billion in SA-CCR (Standardized Approach for… Read More

May 20, 2023 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Delta Capita, the Financial Services division of Prytek, a global Capital Markets consulting, managed services and technology provider has welcomed Julian Chesser as its new Regional Head of APAC who will be based in Singapore. In this role, Julian will be “responsible for leading all… Read More

May 13, 2023 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIA Tech, the exchange-traded derivative industry technology provider, is partnering with Symphony, the markets’ infrastructure and technology platform to improve data query workflows in capital markets. FIA Tech will “integrate its Databank Network into the Symphony platform through the introduction of a new FIA Tech… Read More

May 4, 2023 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Delta Capita, a global capital markets consulting, mutualised managed services and technology provider, announces that it has partnered with Reg X Innovations, a regulatory technology start up, “to launch a new regulatory readiness assessment platform.” Specifically designed to prepare clients for the EMIR Refit, Delta… Read More

May 4, 2023 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The transformation of the venture capital industry over the past year has been “stark,” according to a recent update shared by Carta. Carta writes in a blog post that the total venture capital “raised by startups plunged 80% from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023.” Venture… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Templum, Inc., a provider of Cloud-based capital market infrastructure for alternative assets and private securities, announced today its partnership with Sydecar, a “frictionless” deal execution platform that provides venture investors, syndicates, and funding platforms with the foundational services needed to execute deals. The explosion of… Read More

April 15, 2023 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ION Markets, a global provider of trading platforms, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, announces the connection of its LatentZero order management system (OMS) to Trumid, a financial technology company and fixed income electronic trading platform. The link adds connectivity to ION Markets’… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Fox-Geen. Chief Financial Officer at Fintech firm Circle and Kash Razzaghi, the firm’s Chief Business Officer, have noted that digital currencies and the blockchains on which they travel can offer considerable utility “as a new, unified infrastructure for payments, commerce and capital markets built… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining capital markets, announced a significant innovation to its automated novation service in foreign exchange (FX): it can now novate agency trades while maintaining anonymity. This reportedly “unlocks more of the FX options market for novations by including agency flow and… Read More

March 21, 2023 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL, NCPLW), a digital private capital markets ecosystem, recently  announced financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2023 ended January 31, 2023. Martin Kay, CEO of Netcapital Inc., said: “Over the past nine months, Netcapital has… Read More

March 12, 2023 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining financial markets, announced that its subsidiary, Capitolis Global Broker Dealer LLC, has applied “to become a broker-dealer.” This is the next step in Capitolis’ journey “to provide innovative solutions to the market in order to keep the capital markets both… Read More

February 20, 2023 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Transaction Network Services (TNS) announced the launch of its standardized Dedicated Server offering, which is “the first phase in the deployment of its new Cloud platform for financial markets.” This product is designed specifically “for high-performance trading and utilizes TNS’ bare metal servers, as well… Read More

February 13, 2023 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital securities exchange broker and custodian, announced a partnership with ScribeStar, the digital capital markets documentation and compliance platform, in order “to create a fully digital issuance and admissions experience for companies accessing the Archax markets.” Archax’s institutional-grade, regulated exchange and… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 8:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PrimaryBid and Winterflood announced a collaboration to further advance UK retail investor participation in equity and debt capital markets, including IPOs and follow-on fundraises. Together the firms will “offer API integration to any stockbroker or wealth manager wishing to distribute primary market deals to retail… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining capital markets, completed its nineteenth Standardized Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) optimization in January, “with this latest run incorporating a record number of entities, driving a record reduction of over $290 billion in effective notional.” This marks another momentous… Read More

January 10, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas announces a strategic investment in AccessFintech, which claims to be a leading fintech company “evolving the capital markets’ operating model through data and workflow collaboration.” The investment is being “made by BNP Paribas’s Securities Services unit, the bank’s post-trade arm.” It will “enable… Read More

December 19, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset trading technology, released survey findings from Coalition Greenwich revealing that US Financial Advisors (FAs) are fielding significantly “increased demand from investors for digital assets despite the current crypto winter.” Conducted in partnership with Talos, the survey reported… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Valour Inc., a technology company and the first and only publicly traded company that bridges the gap between traditional capital markets, Web3 and decentralized finance, announced a partnership with Autostock, a Swedish trading platform “to launch an automated trading strategy designed to capture weekly effects… Read More

November 27, 2022 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Both deal activity and deal value on the Carta platform have “declined in every quarter of 2022, falling back to pre-pandemic levels.” That’s a sharp reversal from last year, “when startup investment was propelled to new heights.” This year, deal volume in Q3 “was down… Read More