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ICAP to process foreign exchange trades on blockchain in 2017

Monday 19 December 2016 09:10 CET | News

ICAP, a UK-based operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, has announced plans to start processing foreign exchange trades on blockchain.

Furthermore, ICAP brings along its subsidiary Traiana and has teamed up with Axoni, a US-based technology company to supply the code to customers in March 2017, The Financial Times reported. Traiana acts as a messaging hub for USD 2 trillion of forex, fixed income and swaps deals. The subsidiary provides services to monitor pre-trade risk and automate post-trade processing of financial transactions in listed and over-the-counter trading markets. Also, it reconciles transaction, reference, market and portfolio data before it is transmitted to regulators, clearing houses or back to financial institutions.

Earlier in 2016, ICAP announced that its Post Trade Risk and Information (PTRI) division completed a proof of technology test case for a distributed ledger using blockchain technology. Starting with January 2017, the operator will be renamed NEX Group.


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