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Clearstream and FundsDLT complete first blockchain fund transaction

19 January 2021 Germany
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Zürcher Kantonalbank was the first to leverage the joint FundsDLT-Clearstream solution, with an end investor placing a fund transaction request via a mobile app directly on the private blockchain

J.P. Morgan executes intraday repo transaction using blockchain

11 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

By deploying blockchain, J.P. Morgan “creates new opportunities” to streamline operational processes and accelerate settlement for repo, says Scott Lucas, head of markets

DTCC to create “the most comprehensive pre-and-post-trade reporting solution”

10 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation has acquired Publicis Sapient’s Compliance Management Reporting System and will integrate it with its own reporting hub to enable firms to better manage pre-and-post reporting processes

Exclusive: ConneXXion Markets goes live

09 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The new cloud-based electronic secured finance solution is releasing new pools of liquidity for market participants and was co-founded by Rob Verrillo, Tim McCall, and Gareth Mitchell

Delta One serves-up P2P platform update

07 December 2020 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The peer-to-peer securities lending platform has been updated with ‘jelly rolls’ to offer multi-leg reversal and conversion orders

HSBC solves TTF securities lending tax handicap with “market first” look through model

01 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol & Natalie Turner

The model allows tax transparent funds to scrap the blended withholding tax rate system that has made their assets less attractive to borrow for nearly a decade, and thereby promises to boost lender revenue and market liquidity

COVID-19 inspires derivatives post trade renovations, survey shows

30 November 2020 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

COVID-19 chaos in H1 exposed weaknesses in some firms’ post-trade derivatives processing infrastructures and firms are now allocating major financial resources to reinforce their operations, according to a Acuiti survey sponsored by Broadridge

Pirum and J.P. Morgan launch triparty dual matching service

27 November 2020 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Pirum and J.P. Morgan are expanding their partnership to address the regulatory-driven increase in use of triparty by launching a RQV dual matching facility

Don't recreate today's data silo problem on DLT, warns OECD webinar speaker

25 November 2020 US
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

"If we don’t solve interoperability then all we are doing is creating slightly bigger data silos, says Digital Asset's CEO, adding that if DLT platforms cannot communicate the current data silo problem will just be recreated

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