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The untested youth of the blockchain market, as well as the lack of a regulatory framework, could put off widespread adoption
Supporters claim smart derivative contracts remove need for central counterparties
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CrossLend’s securitization platform is designed to allow smaller firms to buy and sell debt portfolios more easily. It has been backed by Santander’s venture capital fund, which sees it as tapping into various trends in European capital markets. -
Ipreo, whose system is used by banks, especially in Europe, for syndicating new bond issues, has reached out to two potential rivals about possibilities to collaborate. This suggests IHS Markit, which owns Ipreo, believes the alternative platforms could make headway.
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The way that financial and economic news is reported is a better guide to variance in global equity returns than VIX, the CBOE Volatility Index, according to research by the International Monetary Fund.
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This year GlobalCapital has reported extensively on the various debt capital markets technology platforms being developed by both the public and private sectors. But which will come out on top? We should get an answer in 2020.
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Northern Trust and AcadiaSoft are collaborating on a collateral management service for over-the-counter derivatives trading.
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As it spawns innovations everywhere from new issues to collateral management, is blockchain the technological key to digitising capital markets? And if it is, will that be through public versions such as Ethereum or private confidential networks? Or is this focus on distributed ledgers missing the point and the real need just to automate antiquated manual and bilateral processes? Julian Lewis reports
