Forex Weekly Look Back: Swissqute revenue expectations rise 5%, ActivTrades adds commission-free equities trading LeapRate

January 15, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Swissqute revenue expectations rise 5%, ActivTrades adds commission-free equities trading

CLS, a market infrastructure delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has announced that Alfa-Bank and First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) have agreed to initiate onboarding to CLSNet, a standardized, automated bilateral payment netting calculation service for more than 120 currencies. The CLSNet service standardizes and increases the levels of payment netting in the FX market. By…

January 11, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

IHS Markit acquires compliance technology provider Cappitech

Pierre Khemdoudi, Managing Director, Global Equities at IHS Markit said: Regulatory reporting demands will continue to grow rapidly around the globe and customers are looking for a reliable, frictionless and cost-effective way to comply with requirements across jurisdictions. Cappitech’s platform complements our existing offering, enabling us to provide the most comprehensive and scalable integrated financial…

September 07, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

IHS Markit and Tokyo Stock Exchange combining data to create Japanese Securities Finance Data Set

Keisuke Arai, director, information services at TSE commented: We are excited to be working with and developing market data solutions with IHS Markit. We think the combination of our exchange short data with IHS Markit’s stock loan provides a unique view of Japan’s equity market for investors and encourages their investment. Paul Wilson, managing director…

July 23, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cassini Systems and IHS Markit team up for automated margin estimates within thinkFolio

Brett Schechterman, Managing Director and Global Head of thinkFolio at IHS Markit said: Although regulatory authorities have recently moved to delay the final implementation phases of UMR in consideration of the challenges posed by COVID-19, our partnership with Cassini Systems to deliver an integrated solution to ensure transparency of margin and collateral costs can provide…

June 23, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: European PMI data shows return to growth

What to watch IHS Markit: IHS Markit is a financial information firm headquartered in London, but listed on the Nasdaq exchange. Its share price is close to flat year-to-date, and up 23.1% over the past year, after a huge 61.4% rally during the last three months. The near $30bn market cap company reports its latest…

June 11, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Goldman Sachs, CLS and IHS Markit team up for a cross-currency swaps service

Richard Chambers, global head of Short Macro Trading at Goldman Sachs said: Becoming a participant of the cross-currency swap service provided by CLS and IHS Markit helps us to further mitigate settlement risk, and we expect to see further operational and funding efficiency benefits as more counterparties join the service. Keith Tippell, Head of Product,…

July 24, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FlexTRADER certifies with IHS Markit thinkFolio

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade announced that FlexTRADER, the broker-neutral EMS, has just extended its integration with thinkFolio, IHS Markit’s cross-asset investment management platform. This is good news”, commented Mark Denny, Head of Trading - Global Equities, at Investec Asset Management. “We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary with FlexTrade this year and…

July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TradingScreen certifies with IHS Markit’s thinkFolio investment management platform

All-asset class order and execution management system (EMS), TradingScreen Inc. (TS), has announced a certified integration with thinkFolio, IHS Markit’s investment management platform. The companies' mutual clients can benefit from a standardised and certified interface between the two platforms which will provide scalability and reduce costs. thinkFolio clients will now have access to TradingScreen’s EMS…

November 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

REGIS-TR and IHS Markit to collaborate on interoperable SFTR Reporting Solution

REGIS-TR, the pan-European specialist in G20 trade repository services has just announced that it will collaborate with IHS Markit (NASDAQ:INFO), a critical information, analytics and solutions company, to provide a full service reporting solution for Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) requirements. IHS Markit recently announced that BNY Mellon, Brown Brothers Harriman, Deutsche Bank Agency Lending,…

March 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

IHS Markit adds Wall Street Horizon corporate event data to Hub interface

Wall Street Horizon just announced that IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO)’s new Hub Horizon corporate event data service, which is powered by Wall Street Horizon’s event data, has officially launched. Markit Hub Horizon provides accurate and reliable forward-looking corporate event dates and information on over 5,000 North American and 7,000 international companies. More than 20 event…

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