MADRID, June 7 (Reuters) – National bank mergers must come before cross-border deals, the vice-president of the European Central Bank Luis de Guindos said on Friday, without elaborating if the […]
National bank mergers can pave way for cross-border deals, ECB’s De Guindos says Read More »
AMSTERDAM, June 5 (Reuters) – Banks which for years have talked about creating ‘tokenised’ versions of assets like bonds and currencies say a shift to blockchain-based trading is taking longer
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The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Clearstream, and Euroclear, in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), have jointly designed a blueprint for establishing an industry-wide digital asset ecosystem. The
DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear draw out blueprint for tokenisation Read More »
The European Central Bank (ECB) looks set to cut rates for the first time since 2019 on Thursday, but what happens thereafter is a bigger puzzle. Inflation has neared the
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Ever since the global financial crisis, central clearing has been one of the main responses to ensuring financial systems are healthy and secure. In the derivatives world, the plain vanilla,
Derivatives Clearing: The Direction of Travel is Clear Read More »
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its Position Paper on “Building more effective and attractive capital markets in the
ESMA makes recommendations for more effective and attractive capital markets in the EU Read More »
In Stockholm on 4 September, this European top-level panel will look into the drivers and obstacles when it comes to cross-border competition among financial market infrastructure operators. Will the EU’s
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The European Central Bank (ECB) recently published the TARGET2-Securities (T2S) annual report for 2023, revealing a total transaction value of €200.75 trillion. The figure marked an increase of 8.99 per
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I am pleased to inform you that a new chairperson has been appointed to lead the DACSI Working Group on Trading. Eric Wening of ING Bank is the new chair
New chair DACSI WG Trading Read More »
Rapid Addition, a provider of financial information exchange (FIX), and Chainlink, a decentralised blockchain oracle network, have announced the joint development of a FIX-native blockchain adapter. Link: Institutions – here’s
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