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Word on the Streets: July 2021

Q2 has been exceptionally busy as we continue to help clients across the world on their growth journeys. We’ve been supporting go to market launches, international and national expansion initiatives and fundraising campaigns. We’ve been promoting, mentoring and curating debate about the dynamics of growth and everything we do is designed to help firms to scale.

And as we head into July, the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has set out his latest vision to reform capital markets, reiterating the government’s commitment to implementing The Kalifa Review and we are actively involved in the national fintech agenda. Around the world, investment continues to commit to the sector. We are very optimistic about the potential for our clients’ growth and the fintech industry’s contribution to consumers, corporates and society as a whole.

H2 isn’t set to slow by any stretch of the imagination and looks very promising for fintechs looking to scale, at speed.

Julia Streets
Founder and CEO, Streets Consulting

Taskforce on Digital Asset Standards

With thousands of crypto-assets in the market, there is no standard way to identify one digital token from another. Etrading Software, Registration Authority for the new ISO 24165 Standard for Digital Token Identifiers and ANNA, ISO Registration Authority for ISO 6166 ISINs, have created a new joint task force to identify potential standard identifier synergies.

Digitising Assets for Trading

There is real value in moving the underlying plumbing of capital markets to digitised products using distributed ledger technology. In this article for Tabb Forum, Magnus Almqvist, Head of Exchange Development at Exberry, offers both a roadmap and a checklist of questions for exchanges who want to take that next step towards moving to DLT based technology.

High-Frequency Data: From Optional to Indispensable

Since the beginning of the pandemic, access to near real-time data alongside traditional data such as GDP has become even more critical to understanding trends and rapid changes in the economy. Because of this, Howard Rees, CCO at Macrobond, believes economic analysis has changed forever. The genie is out of the bottle. He shared his views via Tabb Forum.

TreasurySpring Closes $10m Series A Funding Round

To meet the appetite for their Fixed-Term Fund (FTF) platform, TreasurySpring raised $10m capital in a Series A investment round co-led by MMC Ventures and Anthemis Group, with participation from existing investors, including ETFS Capital. In this blog, the TreasurySpring co-founders reflect on some of the drivers impacting the take up of the FTF platform.

Managing Risk Better

Scalable and secure risk monitoring is vital to ensure markets run efficiently and transparently. As 2021 is shaping up to be the year when financial markets make headlines for all the wrong reasons, inefficiencies in the infrastructure for managing risk need to be addressed. Darshan Vaidya, Co-founder and CEO of X-Margin, shares his views.

YEO funding 171% oversubscribed

Private messaging app YEO (Your Eye Only) connects business with people via an ultra-secure private messaging app. They recently closed their crowdfunding campaign and they were 171% oversubscribed, validating the need for a safe messaging platform. Their early success highlights that in our digital world privacy, security, control are imperative.

The most dynamic & energetic pitching competition in FinTech is back for its 5th year. Pitch360 will welcome 26 shortlisted companies across 8 categories to battle it out on the virtual stage to pitch their product and business in just 3 minutes. Who wins? The audience decides – on the 8th July!

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Recent Client News

Plenitude  Plenitude appoints former HSBC Managing Director Barbara Patow as Senior Advisor

YEO Messaging YEO Messaging launches Private Messaging App and Opens Crowdfunding 

Substantive Research Substantive Research Launches Dashboard for Asset Managers

ANNA ANNA/GLEIF win award ‘Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative’

Derivatives Service Bureau The DSB Opens RFI on Reference Data Provider

Macrobond Macrobond grows footprint in Asia

Volante Volante wins cfi.co award

World Federation of Exchanges  WFE Publishes Research On Circuit Breakers

Ziglu Ziglu Offers UK Users 5% Interest on Bitcoin Investments

Etrading Software Etrading Software calls for new members for its digital token identifier committee 

BMLL École polytechnique selects BMLL for market microstructure research

BMLL BMLL appoints Masami Johnstone and Simon Ellis 

Société Générale  Societe Generale issues the first structured product on public blockchain 

QuantHouse FlexTrade Enhances FlexONE OEMS with QuantHouse Quantfeed Solution

X-Margin Fireblocks, Celsius Back Zero-Knowledge Credit Scoring for Institutional Crypto Traders

Plenitude Plenitude appoints Allan Clare as Senior Advisor

Substantive Research Substantive Research Launches Dashboard for Asset Managers

Volante Payments Modernisation in the Middle East & North Africa

Substantive Research Addressing the unintended consequences of MiFID II unbundling rules

Derivatives Service Bureau The DSB  Announces 2021 OTC ISINs Consultation is Now Open

Volante Volante Technologies: Best Payments & Financial Messaging Solutions Global 2021

Société Générale Global Bank Seeks Innovative Fintechs

Soft Solutions Soft Solutions Completes AWS Foundational Technical Review for Nexrates Trading Software Platform 

World Federation of Exchanges The WFE  and the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative Publish Joint Paper on Promoting Sustainable Development

Société Générale Claire Calmejane: Not lost in translation

Derivatives Service Bureau DSB Announces UPI Timeline and Seeks Views on Services and Costs

Etrading Software Etrading Software appoints Victoria Mcllory as part of Artis Holdings expansion 

Volante TAB Bank Rides Real-Time Payments Wave with Volante Technologies

Soft Solutions Soft Solutions and TransFICC partner to provide cloud hosted trading and connectivity 

World Federation of Exchanges The WFE World Federation of Exchanges Publishes Annual Derivatives Market Analysis

Volante Volante and Deloitte To Accelerate Payments Modernization

Exberry Exberry chooses new CEO Guy Melamed to accelerate scale up

BMLL TickSmith and BMLL Collaborate to Help Firms Make the Most From Their Data

BMLL FlexTrade Systems integrates with BMLL to deliver data and analytics to t asset managers

BMLL A new chapter for European execution analysis?

OpenSee Opensee Extends Reach with Office in New York

Trayport Hungarian exchanges HUDEX and CEEGEX extend their relationship with Trayport 

Volante Volante Wins “Most Innovative Payment Solutions Provider” at Banking Tech Awards

MacroBond High-frequency data: from optional to indispensable

OpenSee Is ESG the next Big Data problem?

ANNA Taskforce set to make digital assets easier to manage

Quanthouse QuantHouse Partners with Brave New Coin to Improve Trading

Etrading Software Digital token identifier registry goes live

Macrobond Erik Penser Bank selects Macrobond to gain upper hand in market analysis