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Blockchain startup Symbiont files for bankruptcy
Clients included American Century, Citi, Franklin Templeton, State Street and Vanguard
JP Morgan: beating lower margins, flat volumes and the competition
Foresees collaboration with clients and technology providers on FX tech infrastructure, and working with regional players
360TGTX to unveil new NDF streaming to aid bank algos
Complementary offering set to go live next quarter
Gillespie joins Spotex in sales role
Based in London, Kevin Gillespie will target institutional and broker clients, besides banks
Broadway acquires Barracuda to build out tech stack
The combined entity will serve half of the top 50 banks in the fixed-income and FX space
Bloomberg adds real-time market data service to cloud
Its front-office solution, B-pipe, is available via Amazon Web Services
Shterenberg to lead G10 and EM e-FX trading at Barclays
Based in New York, Alex Shterenberg joins the bank from BAML
Sucden hires Gillies to head e-FX sales
Kirsty Gillies ran the e-FX sales team at UBS in London for eight years
Barclays gives Specs to FX participants
The client portal originally launched for equities in 2015 is now available for foreign exchange
Quick to distribute Fenics’ Kace products in Japan
The agreement enables Quick to offer an integrated solution to clients
Thomson Reuters unit becomes Refinitiv
TR’s Financial & Risk changes name, following majority stake buyout led by Blackstone
Elgarf joins ADS Securities in London
He moves to the firm from retail broker IG
Donadio takes CTO role at TradAir
Sebastien Donadio is the former head of software engineering at HC Technologies
TradAir goes live with crypto technology
BlockFills is the first to white-label the technology provider’s cryptocurrency platform
Colt partners NPL on timestamping
Mifid II requires that reportable events are traceable to coordinated universal time
FCA sees 'serious risk of harm' in CFD products
In a letter addressed to the chief executives of CFD providers and distributors, the UK watchdog highlighted several areas of concern
e-FX Awards: Integral – Best e-FX Distribution Platform
Integral lets regional banks and lower-tier dealers reach clients on single/multi-dealer platforms and third-party systems without undue technology spend
FXSpotStream's Schwarz eyes FSS model roll-out away from FX
No concrete plans yet, but rates and credit 'would make most sense', Schwarz says