Capital Markets

The Future of Finance Meetings for 2021 will bring together a variety of high-profile financial speakers. We will host a series of discussions, articles and interviews across all of our chosen themes: Data, Digital Identity, Securities, Asset Management, Law and Regulation, Payments, Money, Insurance, Pensions, Real Estate, Technology and Funding FinTechs. Follow this page for further updates.

SDX explains the challenges of pioneering a regulated digital bond issue

Six Digital Exchange explains the challenges of pioneering a regulated digital bond issue In November 2021, the SIX Group issued a CHF 150 million bond onto its own exchange and into its own central securities depository (CSD). Nothing remarkable about that, you might think. Except that the securities became the first digital bond to be…

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The blockchain pioneer that never stops reinventing itself

Nivaura was a blockchain pioneer in London, working with banks, stock exchanges, financial market infrastructures and law firms on a string of high-profile regulatory sandbox projects that proved blockchain technology could support private placements, structured products, bonds, crypto-currency-backed bonds and equity settlements, even within the existing regulatory regime. 

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For HQLAx tri-party repo is the point of departure not the destination

HQLAx is a properly funded start-up using the R3 Corda variant of blockchain technology to improve the ability of banks to mobilise eligible collateral, wherever it is, by tokenising assets while leaving them exactly where they are.

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Using blockchain as it was intended to make debt issuance more efficient

As blockchain technology emerges from the Trough of Disillusionment (© Gartner) and ascends the Slope of Enlightenment (© Gartner) the original promise of what it can deliver once it reaches the Plateau of Productivity (© Gartner) is being rediscovered. 

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Interview with Saum Noursalehi

A Future of Finance interview with Saum Noursalehi, CEO of tZero, on what the company is doing in the burgeoning security token markets.

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Complacency about prime broker risk could kill hedge funds

A SUMMARY AND FULL REVIEW OF THE DISCUSSION AT THE WEBINAR ON 29 JULY 2020 Part I

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BLOCKCHAIN IN THE BOND MARKETS? (30th June 2021)

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BLOCKCHAIN IN THE BOND MARKETS? (30th June 2021) A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH BOND MARKET PROFESSIONALS, EXCHANGES, INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS, TECHNOLOGY AND BLOCKCHAIN COMPANIES Wednesday June 30 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Back in the blockchain heyday of 2016-18 there was no shortage of schemes to apply the technology to primary…

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COMPLACENCY ABOUT PRIME BROKER RISK COULD KILL HEDGE FUNDS

COMPLACENCY ABOUT PRIME BROKER RISK COULD KILL HEDGE FUNDS A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH PRIME BROKERS AND HEDGE FUND MANAGERS  29 June 2020 2.00-3.00 pm UK time The equity divisions of the banks gained from the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, as market volatility increased transaction flows and trading opportunities. But hedge fund…

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