Hearing from firms at the forefront of this rapidly developing marketplace, we explore the critical points of innovation and opportunities that are driving the change.
Analyzing the impact of market volatility
Volatility this year has brought both challenges and opportunities to all asset classes. As bond yields soar in the wake of rising inflation and fiscal tightening by central banks, fixed income has been at the center of the storm. In this report, Acuiti and valantic FSA review the impact of market volatility and identify some of the key operational challenges that have been faced in recent months.
Technology in fixed income markets
For fixed income businesses across the sell-side, 2022 is set to be a year in which new opportunities will emerge. Members of the valantic FSA Sell-Side Fixed Income Expert Network are optimistic about the year ahead as opportunities abound in multiple areas from inflation to ESG.
The future of fixed income markets
Although the electronification of the fixed income markets has been ongoing for longer than two decades, it is only more recently that we are seeing broader adoption and smarter automation of the workflows. This report focuses on the technology, drivers and trends that network members are looking to address in the next tranche of automation investment.
valantic FSA’s Chris Stares – Senior Solutions Architect, highlights the challenges being faced by banks and other payments service providers. There are multiple complexities in handling payments scheme formats and workflows, despite most being based on, or migrating to, the unified standard of ISO 20022.
In this short interview with Sertac Cetiner we explore where instant transactions are headed and what is driving change in cross-border payments, international remittances, and e-commerce, now, real-time clearing and settlement facilities in many markets make processing payments almost instantly possible.
In this short interview with Celent’s Gareth Lodge, we explore the key themes driving the payments market today, tomorrow and beyond, from instant and cross-border payments, the migration to ISO 20022 and not least the technology that accelerates the path to modernization.
valantic FSA’s Payments Suite is ISO 20022-native, built using our own low-code development and integration technology, X-Gen via its low-code, visual modeling approach, enables you to simplify and accelerate the creation of integration and transformation solutions to support a transitional platform modernization journey, and streamline your migration from legacy/proprietary applications, systems and message formats to the very latest standards and APIs.
Silvia Mazánová, our Head of Product Management for Transaction Automation, speaks with Hannah Wallace of Finextra TV about the current payments landscape, how to future-proof your payments business and opportunities in cryptocurrencies.
Andy Browning, our Head of Electronic Trading, and Jon Butler, CEO of Velox, speak to Toby Babb of FinTech Focus TV about how their partnership enables capital markets firms to innovate faster and take advantage of the data driven economy.
Hear from Andy Browning, Head of Electronic Trading, how our award winning low-code development framework can help you to address strategic agility, data centricity and overall total cost of ownership.
Exploring the challenges associated with digitizing workflows, and the importance of optimization across all parts of the industry, Peter Holmgren – Director International Markets – imparts invaluable insights into the key trends sweeping the marketplace.
Matt Sarkar, Global Head of Marketing for valantic FSA, outlines what a low-code approach to migration could mean for financial institutions.
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The electronification of Fixed Income trading continues unabated according to the most recent Sell-Side Fixed Income Expert Network Report, produced by Acuiti in association with valantic FSA. Over 75% of the Expert Network, a group of senior sell-side fixed income executives from across the globe, reported that ...
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Peter Holmgren, our Director of International Markets, talked to Best Execution about the importance of automation in fixed income trading and how our award-winning solutions help the sell-side meet the evolving needs of the buy-side.
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Over 1,000 payment professionals gathered in Vienna for EBAday2022. The payments community came together to address common challenges, build consensus, and find new opportunities for innovation and growth – steering the industry towards a sustainable future.
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Could the payments industry provide the blueprint for digital transformation in the corporate world? After all, payments are mission-critical to economic prosperity, and, perhaps more than in other sectors, our industry felt the seismic impact of the pandemic on buying habits.
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valantic FSA has completed a strategic investment in Velox Financial Technology, to complement and bring further flexibility to its award-winning electronic trading business.
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Almost overnight we shifted our work lives online – commuting to the kitchen table instead of the city and catching up over video rather than over a beer.
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At some of our clients, Sales Traders have particular difficulty dealing with their aging tech stack and spend too much time manually working across multiple disconnected systems, the result of years of acquisition and constant market evolution.
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Slovenská sporiteľňa upgrades its core banking systems to ISO 20022 using valantic`s RTPE Real Time Payments Engine.
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Following on to my previous post, “Solutions to Our Problems are Rooted in Our Past”, where I drilled down into a specific business case on how Server-interop solutions provide an opportunity to solve the fundamental underlying issue of the traditional siloed technology.
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As I travelled into London this morning to look for new office space with Peter Holmgren, I came across a recent post from Tradeweb providing their latest insights on the uptake of all-to-all trading.
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Today businesses need to operate across these silos to meet client demand for more sophisticated, cross-asset trading solutions.
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The growth in Corporate Bond Electronic Trading continues...
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On my way into one of my first face to face client meetings in a very long time, I read through an interesting report in The Trade (US outpaces Europe in electronic bond trading growth, report finds (thetradenews.com).
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There are clearly differing views regarding the emergence of all-to-all trading...
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I’m five weeks into my new role at valantic FSA and it’s clear that regular interaction with our partner community is key.
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Adoption of repo electronic trading workflows continues at pace with Tradeweb seeing a 53% increase in year on year average daily volumes traded in repo
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Andy Browning joins as Head of Electronic Trading as valantic FSA accelerates the roll out of its next generation Electronic Workflow solutions for the Electronic Trading Community.
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Adopting electronic trading in fixed-income has accelerated as firms see the advantages of workflow automation, not only in improving their own efficiency but in the quality of their client services as well.
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Overbond and valantic FSA partner to integrate Overbond’s pricing and liquidity scoring technology with valantic FSA’s eFICC trading solutions
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One of the reasons there is so much legacy tech in our industry is down to a general fear that the new platform will either not deliver as expected or break a bunch of other systems.
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At the end of 2020, valantic and techconsult conducted a survey of over 200 German-speaking companies from all industries with respect to the question: How has the Corona pandemic impacted digital transformation projects and project priorities?
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One of the comments to my previous post was "how could we offer better prediction systems to allow traders to see possible outcomes before they happen". True, we may not be able to predict outcomes with 100% accuracy, but we are already close.
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I got some great feedback from my last blog post on the potential for augmented reality in trading – thanks everyone for all the DMs. It did get me thinking a bit more about the data angle, and I came across a great quote from a book I am reading by John Rossman, Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader.
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One of the big ideas that wouldn’t leave me alone over Xmas was how, as an industry, we could turn the ocean of data into something even more visual and interactive which genuinely engages the playful, creative sides of our brains?
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According to the OECD, in December 2019, the global outstanding amount of non-financial corporate bonds reached USD 13.5 trillion.
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The new study results provide some important insights about German companies’ technology expertise. In many cases, companies are lacking specialized knowledge and expertise, especially with regard to artificial intelligence, process optimization, and automation.
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One of the reasons there is so much legacy tech in our industry is down to a general fear that the new platform will either not deliver as expected or break a bunch of other systems.
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The European Union promotes the establishment of a comprehensive payment standard for fast and secure cashless transactions in Europe. With instant payments, consumers can use real-time payments for transferring money within only a few seconds to the recipient’s bank account.
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The new SWIFT gpi (global payments innovation) standard regulates international payment transactions. Since 2018, more than 200 banks work with SWIFT gpi and the payment volume is constantly increasing.
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As first European bank, Erste Bank Hungary provides an own system for processing request-to-pay (R2P). With the customized solution on the basis of valantic FSA’s Real Time Payment Engine (RTPE), Erste Bank Hungary now provides a modularly structured payment hub solution.
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The trend to Open Banking in real time continues: With the customized solution on the basis of valantic FSA’s Real Time Payment Engine (RTPE), Erste Bank Hungary now provides a modular structured payment hub solution.
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Currently, banks are putting major effort into translation works regarding money transactions. National standards with different characteristics require a lot of manual work not only increasing the number of potential errors but lowering the banks’ margins due to additional costs.
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Services in real time are already part of the customers’ everyday life – financial institutions also follow this trend. For this purpose, Česká spořitelna implements valantic’s Real Time Payment Engine.
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The Czech bank Česká spořitelna gives its customers the opportunity to process payments in real time. This innovative service is made possible thanks to the Real Time Payment Engine, a software provided valantic FSA having a successful long-term cooperation with the Česká spořitelna.
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