Tag: Citi

Citi invests in low latency connectivity provider TransFICC
August 20, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Citi invests in low latency connectivity provider TransFICC

TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has just informed the public that it has secured a strategic investment from Citi. Citi joins existing shareholders, Illuminate Financial, Main Incubator (part of Commerzbank) and The FinLab. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with…

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April 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gil Mandelzis' new FX credit switching venture Capitolis goes live with Citi, Jefferies and FXCM

Capitolis, the pioneering technology provider for the capital markets, has just announced it is live with its foreign exchange credit switching service, Capitolis Switch. Capitolis raised $29 million of venture capital funding earlier this year from Silicon Valley VCs Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital ($20 million led by Index Ventures, and a prior $9 million…

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STOXX Low Carbon products licensed to Italian bank IMI
November 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

iSTOXX Global Economic Growth Select 50 Index licensed to Citi

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today introduced the iSTOXX Global Economic Growth Select 50 Index. It was licensed to Citi as an underlying for structured products. It is a complementary index to the iSTOXX Europe Economic Growth Select 50 which…

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July 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Optimisation launches automated credit rebalancing tool

Rebalancer enables dynamic allocation of credit across ECNs NEX Optimisation, which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, announced today that it has launched an automated credit rebalancing tool that specifically addresses limit over-allocation by prime brokers. Rebalancer went live across five major ECNs on 2 July 2017, with further platforms…

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January 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

DTCC selects IBM, Axoni and R3 to develop its distributed ledger solution for derivatives processing

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, just announced that it has selected IBM, in partnership with Axoni and R3, to provide a distributed ledger technology (DLT) framework to drive further improvements in derivatives post-trade lifecycle events. The firms will work collaboratively to re-platform DTCC’s…

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December 15, 2016 BY admin

Citigroup funds London forex trading blockchain startup Colbalt

It was announced today that Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C) has invested in London-based FX blockchain startup Colbalt. The company also announced it added Charlotte Crosswell, former Nasdaq NLX CEO as a strategic advisor as the service gets closer to launch. Terms of the investment were not announced. Cobalt DL, a FX post-trade processing network based on distributed ledger technology…

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November 15, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

UBS teams up with Clearstream and Citi for innovative T2S strategic solution

In collaboration with UBS, Clearstream and Citi have designed an innovative market-side network model that enables banks and broker-dealers to optimise their operating models and reap the maximum benefit from TARGET2-Securities (T2S), the Pan-European settlement platform operated by the Eurosystem. The new solution will provide market participants with a single point of access to T2S,…

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November 10, 2016 BY admin

Citibank unveils global in house digital wallet "Citi Pay"

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) today announced the launch of Citi Pay, a new digital wallet that will provide Citi customers with a simple and fast option for online, in-app and in-store payment needs. Citi Pay will be made available to Citi customers for online and in-app purchases. As a digital extension of their current card…

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Bank of China (UK) Limited joins LCH’s SwapClear
November 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH to launch LCH SwapAgent, a centralised service for the non-cleared derivatives market

The global clearing house LCH has announced today that it will be launching a new service for the non-cleared derivatives market. LCH SwapAgent will benefit from LCH’s expertise in serving and managing risk for the cleared rates & FX derivatives market, providing market participants with a number of solutions designed to materially improve standardisation, efficiency…

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