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DirectBooks, led by nine global investment banks, has announced the launch of its core service to streamline communications in the primary issuance process for corporate bond deals. -
Naveed Sultan will develop and lead a new digital policy, strategy and advisory practice for governments, corporates and financial institutions at Citi, and has been appointed chairman in the bank's institutional clients group (ICG).
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Peter Estlin, a former lord mayor of the City of London and group financial controller at Barclays, has joined Digital Debt Capital Markets, the company behind the Agora software, the start-up founded by fellow Barclays alumnus and bond market veteran, Charlie Berman.
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Origin, a fintech firm involved in the bond issuance process, has raised Series A capital from Deutsche Börse's Clearstream and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. The two investors said they want to automate the Eurobond issuance process from origination to settlement.
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The proposed European Distribution of Debt Instruments (EDDI) project as a one-stop synchronised front to back office platform for the eurozone bond markets is unlikely to come to fruition, with the focus now centred on a far different proposition, according to senior members of a market forum spearheading the talks.
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Agora, the end-to-end debt capital markets platform being developed by bond market veteran Charlie Berman, has closed a second funding round with support from new investors including David E. Rutter, the founder and chief executive of R3, the company behind the Corda blockchain system on which Agora will operate.
