Fnality and HQLAᵡ have completed the first PoC DvP repo settlement across the Fnality Payment System (FnPS) and HQLAᵡ’s Digital Collateral Registry, bridging the DLTs of Enterprise Ethereum and R3 Corda. The proof of concept was supported by the project participants – Banco Santander, Goldman Sachs and UBS – and achieved by connecting HQLAᵡ with…
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Viridium hires CTO from Citi
Jörg Günther has joined Viridium, a specialist in the management of life insurance portfolios, as chief technology officer. He was previously with Citi, where he was global head of securities services technology, joining in 2019 from Northern Trust, where he was CTO for EMEA and chief information officer for its Corporate & Institutional Services business
Broadridge appoints chief product officer
Broadridge has appointed Martin Koopman as chief product officer, reporting to Tim Gokey, CEO. Koopman joined Broadridge in 2014.
Galaxy to acquire GK8
Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., a financial services and investment management provider in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors, intends to acquire GK8, a secure institutional digital asset self-custody platform. The acquisition will be the result of a sale process executed in connection with Celsius Network LLC‘s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is subject to…
Accelex partners with qashqade
Accelex, a SaaS platform provider specialising in alternative investment data management, has established a partnership with qashqade, a Switzerland-based software solution provider that enables private capital allocators and asset servicers to automate their waterfall and valuations workflows. The partnership will allow clients of both firms to leverage an end-to-end solution, from the automated extraction of…
Northern Trust partners with Saphyre
Northern Trust and Saphyre have automated the account opening process for clients of Northern Trust’s investment operations outsourcing business. The two firms collaborated on the solution, which provides a dynamic middle-office function to increase transparency and efficiency for events including account setup, account maintenance and asset transfer requests.
Napier expands to Japan
Napier, the UK-based financial crime fintech, has struck a partnership with GRCS, a Japan-based firm, to make Napier Continuum, its end-to-end financial crime risk management platform, available in the Japanese market. GRCS provides expertise and solutions in governance, risk management, compliance, and security to regulated Japanese firms. The partnership with Napier will see GRCS reselling,…
Symphony acquires Amenity
Symphony, a UK-based fintech, has acquired Amenity Analytics, a natural language processing data analytics solution providing actionable insights to portfolio managers, research professionals, analysts and other financial markets participants. This acquisition will enhance Symphony’s markets strategy with highly relevant data and business insights use cases, including ESG capabilities.
Broadridge & SLIB extend voting service
Broadridge, the U.S.-based fintech, and SLIB, a software editor for electronic voting and securities services based in France, have gone live with their joint end-to-end global voting solution. The deal builds on the cross-border proxy voting service for France-based investors that hold international shares, launched by Broadridge and SLIB in 2021.
CACEIS partners with Sismo
CACEIS, the European asset servicing group, and Sismo, a French fintech, have formed a partnership to offer a new solution for portfolio analysis and optimisation, as well as investment strategy development. The Sismo web platform is available through the CACEIS Connect Store. Sismo’s solution offers data visualisation and an advanced comparative analysis tool.