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Blockchain and Barclays: A Structured Approach
Barclays is one of several leading international banks that are exploring the potential for distributed ledger technology to transform a number of industry processes. In this interview, Dr. Lee Braine, one of the bank's experts on DLT, explains the bank's strategic approach to this new technology and the importance of collaboration in achieving its potential
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Cryptocurrency Derivatives: Exchanges Take Interest
The surge of interest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has attracted the attention of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges.
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Managing Liquidity: Why You Should Revisit Your Strategy Today
Successfully running a futures commission merchant business or brokerage firm requires more than state-of-the-art trading technology and market access. You also need quick access to cash in case your clients suddenly require liquidity.
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Insight: Finding Opportunity in Innovation
When Bitcoin first began making headlines a few years ago, I was intrigued, but skeptical that it would grow beyond a narrow fad. The markets seemed to turn more to the development of blockchain, Bitcoin’s underlying distributed ledger technology, for its potential to fix the inefficient plumbing of our financial system. But clearly there is more to the bitcoin story.
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Friends for the Cure: Raising Funds for Diabetes Research
Type 1 diabetes typically affects children and young adults, which makes it especially challenging for parents and families.
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Better Benchmarks
Central banks and market regulators in Europe, the U.K. and the U.S. are accelerating the transition away from the use of Libor as a benchmark for interest rates.
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Kenanga Takes Control: Deutsche Bank Sells Stake in Malaysian Futures Brokerage
On July 27, Deutsche Bank completed the sale of its 27% stake in Kenanga Deutsche Futures, a joint venture with Malaysia's Kenanga Investment Bank that was set up more than two decades ago
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SEC Hacked
Jay Clayton, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, revealed on Sept. 20 that hackers gained access to the agency's EDGAR system for corporate filings and might have used the information for trading purposes.
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Capital Markets Fintech: Venture Capital Investment on Track for Record High
In recent years, venture capital funds have made sizeable investments in new and emerging companies that are aiming to transform financial services through the use of innovative technologies. According to estimates published by KPMG, $13.6 billion was invested in fintech companies worldwide in 2016, compared to $12.7 billion in 2015 and just $1.4 billion in 2011.
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Pain Points
FIA is working with two other industry bodies—SIFMA Asset Management Group, which represents buyside institutions, and the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication, which develops standards for trade processing and related communications—to discuss "pain points" in post-trade processing of cleared derivatives.
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