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Finastra onboards Fragmos Chain’s blockchain platform for the digitalization of over-the-counter derivatives post-trade

London, UK – November 22, 2022 – Today Finastra announced a collaboration with Fragmos Chain, a blockchain platform which digitalizes interactions between financial institutions, to provide Finastra customers with out-of-the-box integration with Finastra Summit, its over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market solution. The API-first integration, via FusionFabric.cloud, enables banks globally to digitalize their OTC derivatives products to reduce the costs and risks …

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The scope of Fragmos Chain post-trade platform for OTC derivatives is extending

① To manage any kind of swap and any kind of event, we recently added 3 functionalities: Matching of events and cash-flows Complex features such as risk-free rates, cap/floors or non-deliverable currencies Basket underliers As the only ISDA CDM-native post-trade platform, we capitalize on CDM’s modularity to offer a broad variety of products. We are …

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Fragmos Chain at CordaCon 2021

Why OTC Derivatives? Our CEO, Daniel Ivanier, was invited by R3 to talk at the CordaCon 2021. Key highlights: Post-trade costs are huge for OTC derivatives: $400 per trade (compared to $2 for listed derivatives) Processes are complex These products are heavily regulated 

AXA IM Laurence Arnold’s speech at 6/30/2021 Finance Innovation Webinar

At the Finance Innovation Webinar, “Open Innovation & Collaboration between businesses, software vendors and Fintechs”, held on June 30th, 2021, Laurence Arnold, Head of Innovation Management and Strategic Initiatives at AXA Investment Managers, answered to Daniel Ivanier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCW0CpzBMhI Laurence’s speech was in French, you will find below the English translation. “For an Asset Manager today, 3/4 …

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Simplicity out of complexity – Bringing OTC Derivatives in from the cold

Trading in off-exchange derivatives has long been the domain of specialist brokers – an intricate world of bespoke contracts, non-standard risk and valuation models, blighted by suboptimal settlement operations. However, a new breed of technology promises to deliver a unified process and accountability in stark contrast to the challenges of legacy processes, opening the asset …

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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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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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