‘Commission-Management-As-A-Service’ Debuts Commcise, a provider of integrated commission management, research evaluation, consumption tracking and reporting solutions for investment management and brokerage firms, reports the launch of CommciseCM, a stand-alone, cloud-based commission management platform designed to help U.S. asset managers and hedge funds obtain a “full commission wallet view of their entire trading activity.” CommciseCM, majority-owned… Read More >>
Commerzbank & Deutsche Börse’s Successful DLT Experiment
It’s a challenge to predict how technologies will fare in the universe of securities operations. For instance, the hype around blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been far outpacing the reality of DLT-based systems and applications in production at securities trading firms, causing some to wonder if there will ever be actual results. However, Commerzbank and… Read More >>
Deutsche Börse’s ‘Roadmap 2020’ Will Require 350 Layoffs
Deutsche Börse executives are planning an overhaul that will result in 350 job losses, a new focus on organic growth, acquisitions, and new technologies, according to the German exchanges company’s “Roadmap 2020” strategy presentations at its annual Investor Day in London, May 30. In particular, Deutsche Börse officials want: To grow structural net revenue “by… Read More >>
Deutsche Börse Taps UniCredit Bank for Next CEO
New Deutsche Börse CEO to Serve for Three Years The next CEO for the Deutsche Börse will be Theodor Weimer from UniCredit Bank who will serve for three years, starting Jan. 1, 2018, according to the supervisory board of the exchanges and clearing company. The 57-year-old Weimer “will take over from CEO Carsten Kengeter who… Read More >>
Risk Focus Helps Deutsche Börse Detect MiFID II Woes
Deutsche Börse Group, which oversees key trading venues, will be using offerings from Risk Focus and its software subsidiary, RegTek.Solutions to detect problems with the contents of each field of a MiFID II trade message. In particular, Risk Focus will provide Deutsche Börse with a version of Validate.Trade via RegTek.Solutions that users of Deutsche Börse’s… Read More >>
LSEG-Deutsche Börse Breakup Paves the Way for Other Suitors
The marriage of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and the Deutsche Börse was always on shaky ground despite the participants hoping that this time they would be able to finally walk down the aisle after two failed attempts. However, this was not to be and the European Union competition regulators broke up the union…. Read More >>
Euronext Still Wants to Buy Clearnet from LSEG
Euronext is making it clear that it still wants to buy and own the LCH.Clearnet service outright, the sale of which was part of the failed London Stock Exchange Group-Deutsche Börse merger. At the same time, Euronext is hedging its bets with a preliminary derivatives clearing agreement with ICE Clear Netherlands that would require Euronext… Read More >>
E.U. Kills LSE-Deutsche Börse Merger
On the same day that Brexit launched, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Deutsche Börse have definitively called it quits after the European Commission prohibited the proposed merger, citing the potential of a monopoly in the markets for clearing fixed income instruments. The E.C. investigation “concluded the merger would have created a de facto… Read More >>
Brexit Imperils LSE-Deutsche Börse Merger
Perhaps it was inevitable after the Brexit vote that the €29 billion ($24.4 billion) merger of the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse would never see the light of day. However, the LSE’s decision not to divest its 60 percent share in MTS, the Italian bond trading platform, to appease the European Commission’s anti-trust regulators… Read More >>
LSE-Deutsche Börse Merger Hits Major Snag
The proposed merger between the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Deutsche Börse AG may have hit a major barrier because the LSEG board has rejected a stipulation from the European Commission (EC) that the London conglomerate divest its majority stake in the MTS electronic trading platform for European wholesale government bonds and other fixed… Read More >>