The US regulator — under new chair and market 'cop’ Gary Gensler — is utilising 2011’s Dodd-Frank to boost transparency in equity, credit, and interest rate derivatives asset classes
Bequant Exchange and Bequant Pro were incorporated in August 2018 in Malta, to take advantage of the digital assets framework that was introduced by the MFSA in 2019
Panellists at the Securities Finance Technology Symposium agreed that the data treasurers need is out there, lost in a barrage of bespoke reports and different communication channels, but vendors with modular solution are here to ease the challenges
Blockchain, shortening settlements and chasing efficiencies are all future bets for the securities finance regulatory landscape, according to an SFT panel
FinOptSys, a new financial resources, collateral and balance sheet optimisation platform, incorporating ‘true’ peer-to-peer trading functionality, has come to market promising, with backing from John Stracquadanio and Kevin Felix at Appia Ventures
Regulation, the need for efficiency and the availability of modular technology are all driving better collateral management, a Securities Finance Technology Symposium panellist says
Panellists at the SFT Technology Symposium hailed newly-invigorated tailwinds for technology adoption in repo markets, although there is still significant headroom for growth
The FCA has fined Sapien for facilitating a dividend arbitrage scheme by Solo Group and its underlying off-shore clients, which were all connected to Sanjay Shah, and illegally collected withholding tax reclaims from the tax authorities of Denmark an
