SGX used DAML, the smart contract language created by Digital Asset, to model the bond and its distributed workflows for issuance and asset servicing over the bond’s lifecycle. SGX’s solution uses smart contracts to capture the rights and obligations of parties involved in issuance and asset servicing, such as arrangers, depository agents, legal counsel, and custodians. The digital bond used HSBC’s on-chain payments solution.

Advantage Data Debuts Private Credit Analysis Tool

Boston-based fixed-income and derivatives pricing vendor Advantage Data has launched Private Credit Advantage, a pricing and analytics desktop for thousands of securities in the opaque private credit marketplace.

The new service includes pricing from more than 830 sources, yields and spreads on any benchmark, the ability to chart and overlay any combination of bonds, loans or indexes, a Historical New Issues Report, a comps function, bond calculator, and a Holdings Report, which allow users to combine securities with other instruments and asset classes to derive new insights.

T-Scape Debuts Voting Automation for Buy Side

London-based financial technology provider T-Scape is developing a new application to automate shareholder vote processes, in response to the regulatory requirements of the European Union’s Shareholder Rights Directive II. The application specifically addresses inefficiencies related to proxy voting, and will capture incoming data, alert users to new events, capture votes, and dispatch voting instructions, using a revised version of the ISO 20022 message format.

The new application, developed in partnership with an unnamed global investment manager, will be part of the vendor’s iActs corporate actions processing software suite.

CFTC Approves LedgerX to Clear Fully Collateralized Futures and Options

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced it has approved an Amended Order of Registration for LedgerX, LLC, to clear additional products, subject to the terms and conditions specified in the order, as a derivatives clearing organization under the Commodity Exchange Act.

Under the amended order, LedgerX is authorized to provide clearing services for fully collateralized futures and options on futures in addition to the previously authorized swaps and will no longer be limited to clearing digital currency products.

LedgerX, a Delaware limited liability company located in New York City, is also registered with the CFTC as a designated contract market and swap execution facility.

TraditionDATA will publish spreads between Ameribor, Secured Overnight Financing Rate and the Effective Fed Funds Rate via its own data feeds, as well as through vendors including Refinitiv and Bloomberg.  

The publication of these spreads will commence in early September, at a time when the global financial markets are focused on the retirement of the historic London Interbank Offered Rate and other global IBORs with new ARRs.  

Apex, Calypso Partner to Provide Services to Ardent Financial

Apex Group has announced that it has been appointed to provide front-to-back office solutions to securities dealer Ardent Financial Limited, using Calypso Technology’s management and reporting platform. These services will coincide with Apex’s existing provision of custody services to Ardent.

Apex will provide decision support, analytics, and back office services to Ardent via the Calypso platform as part of the Apex360 solution.

IPC Launches Voice Trading Dictation Solution with GreenKey Technologies

Communications and networking solutions provider IPC has launched a managed voice trading dictation solution: Dictation-as-a-Service. Dictation-as-a-Service brings together GreenKey Technologies’ cloud-based speech recognition and natural language processing (NLP) engine with IPC’s Connexus Cloud financial ecosystem.

The service enables financial traders to “dictate” trade jargon via a dedicated IPC private wire, and consume the output transcribed in real time via GreenKey’s and IPC’s co-developed Blotter app. Traders can use Dictation as a Service for voice workflows, API integration with chat services, creating automated text records of voice trades, and trade reconstruction.