As reported by FINalternatives.com and extract below, MarketsMuse tech talk editors note that investments in financial technology (FINtech) deals nearly tripled in the United States in 2014, according to a new report by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City. The value of fintech investments in the United…Read More
MarketsMuse editors are almost starting to lose count when it comes to the number of electronic trading initiatives from FinTech aficionados who purportedly intend to make the institutional corporate bond market more transparent, and hence more liquid.. Thanks to Liquidnet, the latest player to plug into the corporate bond market…Read More
Tech Talk: Bitcoin's Distributed Ledgers: A FinTech Innovation.. MarketsMuse Trading Technology/FinTech department profiles Wall Street’s rapid embracement of the tools that power Bitcoin with a look at Symbiont, a company that aspires to disrupt the capital markets process. Distributed ledgers, the technology behind the Bitcoin blockchain, can be used to…Read More
One of the biggest investment banks on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, is making a change to its business model--adopting what seems to be tactics advanced by startups. Soon, Goldman will offer loans online to both consumers and to small businesses as it looks to tap into a marketplace worth nearly…Read More
#WhatsNext? wonders the MarketsMuse.com editors and Overstock's Patrick Byrne does not fail to surprise with another announcement that could disrupt the capital markets. As a follow-on to a $500mil stock offering reported here on April 29, now Byrne is pitching an offering that he hopes to be the first issuance…Read More
BATS Global Markets now is the leading U.S. marketplace for exchange traded funds (ETFs), executing 26.1 percent of all ETF trading in May. MarketsMuse ETF and Tech Talk depts merge to provide following update, courtesy of James Dornbrook Kansas City Business Journal On Thursday, the Lenexa-based stock exchange welcomed the…Read More
MarketsMuse Tech Talk update profiling Wall Street’s latest embracing of Bitcoin technology and a look at 11 May announcement from NASDAQ is courtesy of extracts from CNN.com and WSJ. The Nasdaq stock exchange is tapping Bitcoin’s powerful new transaction technology to create a more secure, efficient system to trade stocks.…Read More
The US Government Bond Market is set to explode...with more e-trading systems.. MarketsMuse Tech Talk continues its curating of fintech stories from the world of fixed income and today's update is courtesy of WSJ's Katy Burne, who does a superb job (as always) in summarizing the latest assortment of US…Read More
MarketsMuse blog update profiles The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation aka BNY Mellon, and their introducing a new ETF negotiation tool. This update is courtesy of Asset Servicing Times' article, "BNY Mellon launches new ETF negotiation tool", with an excerpt below. BNY Mellon has introduced a new automated process to…Read More
MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk update profiles the latest news flash for FinTech wonks: Whilst the securities industry landscape continues to debate the "dark pool vs. lit market" topic, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is taking a chapter from the behometh brokerdealer universe with their own scheme to introduce a dark pool,…Read More
MarketsMuse.com Fixed Income & Trading Tech update is without a rating and instead, takes a long view towards this week's announcement from inter-dealer broker GFI Group launch of an electronic service for "dealers only" to trade odd lots of corporate bonds. For those not in the know, "odd-lot" is generally…Read More
MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk update profiles the latest development regarding Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne plan for a cryptosecurity trading system "for brokerdealers" only and akin to the array of ECNs and ATS platforms that Fintech aficionados and broker-dealers are already accustomed to. The headline: Overstock looks to issue Bitcoin-style stocks via…Read More
MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk aka Fintech update profiles the latest from Symphony, the brokerdealer-backed financial communications program that is looking to make the Bloomberg terminals (or at least their most-used messaging application) mute. This David v. Goliath type battle pitting well-backed upstarts against the ubiquitous Bloomberg LP could become a trend…Read More
MarketsMuse blog update profiles the new ETF, iShares Exponential Technologies ETF (XT), impress start. The ETF XT has collected over $600 million since its start in March of this year, this feat something only a few other new ETFs have been able to do. This MarketsMuse blog update is courtesy of…Read More
Just when you thought the world of electronic bond trading had become saturated, MarketsMuse.com Fixed Income and Trading Tech departments continues coverage of the increasingly popular fixation on the part of entrepreneurs and technology firms, who have set up nearly two dozen new markets to trade corporate debt. In the…Read More
TradeWeb's Raazi is out after short stint pitching the merits of electronifying the corporate bond market. MarketsMuse.com has made more than a few mentions about the recent decade’s corporate bond-centric electronic trading platform initiatives and those being spearheaded by the latest generation of altruistic sell-siders, buysiders, and the assortment of…Read More
While the title could be "Big Data Bags BrokerDealers", MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk update is courtesy of extract from the 07 April Bloomberg LP story by Hugh Son profiling the recent initiative by JPMorgan (and presumably their bulge bracket brethren, and likely, a select band of black box-centric buysiders from the…Read More
The senior curator for MarketsMuse.com Tech Talk section was so inspired by a recent article "A Cynic's Guide to Fintech" by Dan Davies, the Senior Research Advisor at Frontline Analysts and published via Medium.com, we wanted to share the opening elements with our audience..For those of you following the various…Read More