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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The London Stock Exchange Group has partnered with fintech firm Nivaura for the exchange's new platform, called Flow. LSEG hopes that its adoption of Nivaura’s general-purpose legal mark-up language (GLML) technology will help to establish it as the industry’s automation protocol of choice.
  • Swisscom raised Sfr100m ($110m) on Thursday with an 11 year bond sold without the involvement of an intermediary bank. The company worked with Swiss fintech company Valyo to issue the bond through its platform that directly connects issuers and investors.