Market Infrastructure

DTCC Processes Largest Bond Issuance In Its History

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's depository processed yesterday the single largest corporate bond issue in its history while also exceeding by almost 60 percent the previous record for the daily cumulative monetary value of all its municipal and corporate

STRATE Looking for Wider Role

STRATE will not stop at its current function of settling trades in equities and share warrants electronically. Monica Singer, CEO of STRATE Ltd, told guests at a Dealmakers function last night (Wednesday) that STRATE aimed to provide a global and

Canada Bores On With Preparations for T +1

Brennan Succeeds Bolsover at Baring Asset Management Baring Asset Management, a unit of ING Group, has appointed David Brennan chairman and chief executive, effective July 1.Brennan has been with the company for 14 years and has been chief executive of

Reuters' Radianz To Distribute S & P Data

Radianz today announced that Standard & Poor's will make a range of S&P market data information products available in Europe via Radianz's Internet Protocol (IP) based global financial extranet, RadianzNet. The move will give financial institutions connected to RadianzNet easy

Monte Titoli Booms in 2001

Monte Titoli made a net profit of Euros 5.9 million in 2001, Euros 1.3 million upon 2000, according to results approved by the board today. The Italian CSD attributes the improvement to the growing volume of assets held by its

ETC Pioneer Chris Smith Joins Reuters

Reuters has confirmed the seriousness of its ambitions in the global STP arena by hiring one of the giants of the business. Chris Smith joined Reuters on Monday, as a member of the STP global marketing team led by Tony

SWIFT Plugs Foreign Investors Into the NYSE

SWIFT today announced that the SWIFTNet FIX messaging solution will connect to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), giving investors around the globe direct access to trade stocks in the world's leading equities market using the FIX industry standard. The

Not Global Crossing: Savvis Saved With Cash Injection

One telecommunications provider reckons it has avoided the fate of Global Crossing. SAVVIS Communications, a global network service provider which lists Royal Bank of Scotland, Reuters and Garband among its clients, has secured equity financing of $158 million to reduce

Global Crossing Chiefs to Testify

SimCorp joins Omgeo STP Partner Program Omgeo, the DTCC Thomson virtual matching utility, has signed up Simco as one of the "partner" vendors it hopes will help it tie more fund managers, broker dealers and custodians into its solution than