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Société Générale has issued the first covered bond as a security token on a public blockchain last week. -
Stu Taylor has started advising Symphony, which provides communication services for market players, on issues related to trading. Taylor set up and led Algomi, another fintech involved in capital markets, until leaving last year.
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A new report from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp claims recent technology advances could help reduce trade failures for institutions.
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A bid by VC Trade, an emerging technology platform for the Schuldschein market, to overcome resistance and cement its position in the market appears to have paid off this week, as a deal for Lufthansa executed solely via the platform succeeded handsomely. This could prove a turning point for the use of tech in the Schuldschein sector and perhaps other corporate debt markets. Silas Brown reports.
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TrueDigital, a New York company that uses blockchain-based technologies to offer margined deliverable swaps on bitcoin, has hired Michel Finzi, a former managing director and SVP at Instinet, as its chief commercial officer. It has also hired two ex-Citigroup bankers as salespeople.
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Data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission suggests that institutional investors' positioning in bitcoin futures swung away from bullishness last week.
