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Fragmos Chain obtains the Finance Innovation Label

Fragmos Chain has obtained the Finance Innovation label, awarded to startups that are both innovative and strategic for the financial industry. Finance Innovation is the French global competitiveness pole dedicated to finance recognised by the French government. Its ecosystem gathers startups, research labs, financial institutions, academic centers and investors. Criterias for obtaining the Finance Innovation …

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Fragmos Chain is part of the CordaCon 2020 Ecosystem

Fragmos Chain was part of the 103 companies of the R3 CordaCon2020 ecosystem that contribute to deliver the value of distributed ledgers across the industry. CordaCon runs from 20 to 22 October 2020 and brings together 2000+ industry leaders, technologists, and Corda enthusiasts to look at key trends in blockchain, digital transformation and the latest …

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G20 retains the ISDA Common Domain Model to solve regulatory compliance and supervision challenges

TechSprint was a joint initiative of the BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH) and the Saudi G20 Presidency designed to showcase the potential for new innovative technologies to resolve operational problems in the areas of regulatory compliance (RegTech) and supervision (SupTech). ISDA and REGnosys won the challenge in the regulatory reporting category based on the ISDA Common …

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The Digital Future for Financial Markets

See the letter written by several associations of financial institutions, including ISDA and ICMA – International Capital Market Association: “The financial services industry finds itself at a crossroads”, as rightly pointed out in this letter.Institutions will succeed only in “embracing transformation change” through “greater coordination” and using transformative technologies such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). This is a …

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R3 Podcast: ISDA and R3 on Smart Contracts, the Law, and Governance in Financial Markets

In this podcast available on R3’s website, R3’s Catherine Rutter sits down with ISDA’s Ciarán McGonagle and R3’s Jason Rozovsky to talk about foundational standards for blockchain, smart contract guidelines, their recent paper, ISDA’s work on the Common Domain Module (CDM), and more. Duration: 38:33 (for those who are in a rush, you can start …

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Part 2: Pain points in the global post trade market – based on Fragmos Chain market study

Pain points in the global post trade market

Each day, capital markets post-trade Operations teams encounter many issues at every stage of the trade lifecycle processes booking errors, discrepancies in Emir portfolio reconciliation, inaccurate regulatory reporting, etc. These are only a few among so many issues that must be handled by operational teams within Investment Banks and other financial institutions. After many years …

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Covid-19 crisis impact on the global post trade market

Part one: Crisis’ impact on the global post trade market Covid-19 is an unprecedented crisis that undermined global post-trade activities by highlighting its shortcomings. Despite all the efforts made by the financial system to be more resilient and face stress caused by Covid-19, this period remains destabilizing on such a scale that banks should question …

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Bank of England report on the Future of Post-Trade

The Bank of England published on 2nd June 2020 a report on “The Future of Post-Trade Findings from the Post-Trade Technology Market Practitioner Panel”. The next move for banks is now digitalizing post-trade processes. Findings are self-explanatory: Post-trade processes, both within and across firms, have evolved organically over time, with layers of legacy technology systems, …

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