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AFME appoints new head of capital markets

The TRADE

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has appointed April Day head of capital markets. As part of the role, she oversaw equity capital markets (ECM), trading and post-trade activities. She also brings extensive experience in investment banking and capital markets to the new role.

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Could digital assets help expand capital raising?

Accenture Capital Markets

At Accenture’s capital markets team, we’ve completed a research project into the future of capital raising. The results should be of interest for anyone in the industry—for both public and private markets. We were keen to develop some insights into the evolving landscape of financial market infrastructure.

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The scale-up gap: Financial market constraints holding back innovative firms in the European Union

European Investment Bank

This report provides new evidence on the financial constraints faced by companies as they enter the crucial scale-up phase. The analysis follows firms that received venture capital backing and reached the scale-up phase in the European Union after 2013.

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Trade associations emphasise need for credit ratings to bolster EU corporate bond transparency regime

The TRADE

Particularly, as overly prompt dissemination of trade information could lead to a negative impact on market liquidity. The associations noted that distinguishing between investment grade (IG) and high-yield (HY) corporate bonds is a key component to tap into greater transparency in more liquid bonds, while ensuring protection for those bonds.

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Mosaic Smart Data and Euroclear launch data intelligence offering for capital markets

The TRADE

As a financial market infrastructure with a track record of providing high quality settlement services to the world’s leading financial institutions, we are well positioned to drive innovation in the industry and to improve efficiency in the market as a whole.”

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Major investment banks and asset managers partake in landmark blockchain pilot

The TRADE

Digital Asset’s blockchain network Canton has completed a pilot involving a large group of major investment banks and asset managers demonstrating interoperability of independent distributed ledger applications (dApps) in the capital markets domain.

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CME Group expands Google Cloud partnership to launch new futures and options platform

The TRADE

According to the businesses the specialised platform for capital markets is an industry first, with development already underway beginning with customer testing in the Dallas Google Cloud region. Over the last three to four years significant investments have been made, and long-term partnerships forged across the market.