Blockchain has the potential to reduce balance sheet use and bring settlement risk to near zero, according to participants in a blockchain roundtable at the ISLA conference in Vienna...
Automation of securities lending transactions has proved so successful for general collateral lending that it is increasingly being utilised for higher value “warm trades”, according to a panellist at CASLA’s Conference on Securities Lending la
RISE Financial Technologies claims to have pulled ahead of the pack in the emerging technology arms race with the creation of the next generation of blockchain for the post-trade sector...
Post-trade services provider Pirum has enhanced its CCP Gateway service with access to the voluntary corporate action messaging system of Eurex Clearing's Lending Central Counterparty securities lending service...
IPC Systems, a communications services provider to the financial markets, has expanded its network with the addition of Russian brokerage firm Otkritie Capital...
US technology giant IBM is working with securities borrowing and lending participants such as BNY Mellon to create a “tamper-resistant” blockchain solution for the trade and transfer of assets...
The National Settlement Depository (NSD), the Russian central securities depository (CSD), has completed testing on its blockchain e-proxy voting technology...