SEB Head of e-FX distribution, Carolina Trujillo, commented: We are excited that becoming a liquidity provider on BidFX is enabling us to extend our reach and both follow existing clients as well as get access to new clients. As the leading liquidity provider in Scandinavian currencies, we want to be able to reach out to…
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Itiviti, the global provider of multi-asset trading technology and financial infrastructure, has just introduced Itiviti FX, a comprehensive foreign exchange trading solution built for today's dynamic FX market landscape and designed for compliance with the latest regulatory requirements including MiFID II. Using a modular, app-based architecture Itiviti FX combines rich out-of-the-box FX trading capabilities with…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) just informed the public that it has today fined Danske Bank, Nordea Bank, SEB, Svenska Handelsbanken and Swedbank €495,000 each and issued five public notices for negligently breaching the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR). ESMA found that the five banks infringed the CRAR by issuing credit ratings without…
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SEB, the Nordic financial services group, and Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) have announced a joint project to test a developed prototype for a mutual fund trading platform based on blockchain technology. The aim is to increase efficiency in the processing of purchases and sales of fund units and to create a unit ledger – an area…
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After imposing a fine on CybAero amounting to three annual fees just yesterday, the Disciplinary Committee of Nasdaq Stockholm announced that has found that Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) has breached Nasdaq Stockholm’s Rule Book for Issuers (“the Rule Book”) and, accordingly, has ordered SEB to pay a fine of one annual fee, corresponding to…
Read moreSwedish financial group SEB has joined a $4 million Series A funding round for Danish blockchain payment service provider Coinify. The bank's venture capital arm was joined in the round by Seed Capital Denmark, boosting Coinify, which claims to be the largest facilitator of blockchain payments in Europe, supporting more than 20 PSPs and reaching over 100,000…
Read moreThe trial marked an unprecedented scale of institutional collaboration between the financial and technology communities exploring how distributed ledgers can be applied to global financial markets. Just released is a major blockchain announcement from financial technology innovation company R3 CEV. In short, they connected 40 banks to five different blockchains and allowed them to facilitate…
Read moreConsortium to develop new technology for global financial markets now comprises 25 banks.
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