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Stock Clearing Stalwarts Face Increasing Threat From Blockchain
By Philip Stafford
April 6, 2021, Financial Times
Credit Suisse and broker Instinet said on Tuesday they had settled privately-negotiated stocks deals on a blockchain for the first time, speeding …

Bank of England Acts to Limit Fallout From Banking Glitches
By Huw Jones
March 29, 2021, Reuters
Banks and other financial firms in Britain must set out by March 2022 how quickly critical parts of their business could recover from …

EU Watchdog Raises Concerns on Third Party Reliance After Exchange Outages in 2020
By Annabel Smith
March 18, 2021, The Trade
The markets regulator in Europe has raised concerns over trading venues’ reliance on third-party data and software providers following several major technical …

MiFID II Pushes OTC Derivative Trading to Unregulated Cloud
By Thomas Helm
March 3, 2021, Practice Insight from IFLR
Market participants and regulators have become increasingly concerned with the way MiFID II facilitates the unregulated trading of over-the-counter (OTC) …

Federal Reserve Financial Services Systems Disrupted for Hour
By Paul Kiernan and Orla McCaffrey
February 24, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday an unspecified error disrupted all of its financial-services systems in an extraordinary …

Confidential Computing Projects Could Answer Industry’s Cloud Security Questions
By Rebecca Natale
February 19, 2021, WatersTechnology
“It’s a funny story,” says Richard Brown, chief technology officer of R3, an enterprise software firm originally set up in 2014 as a …

Interest Rate Derivatives Set to Mark Digital ‘First’
By Wendy Lisney
February 3, 2021, Global Investor Group
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD) Definitions, due for launch later this year, will be the …

Agencies May Issue Information Request on AI Adoption, Fed Official Says
By Hannah Lang
January 12, 2021, American Banker
The Federal Reserve and other banking regulators are considering a formal request for public feedback about the adoption of artificial intelligence in …

High-Frequency Traders Can Keep Code Secret Under New CFTC Rule
By Benjamin Bain
December 8, 2020, Bloomberg
U.S. derivatives regulators have approved regulations for high-frequency trading that exclude a controversial plan that would have increased government access to traders’ computer …

FCA details Mifid onshoring process post-Brexit
December 8, 2020, Central Banking
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is testing two new systems that will be used by firms to report data related to the Markets in Financial …