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Goldman Sachs Wants Patent To Settle Trades in Bitcoin Tool

(TradersMagazine) Trading settlement and clearing could go the way of bitcoin, as white glove bulge bracket brokerdealer Goldman Sachs and fintech aficiondo has filed a patent for technology to settle securities in the cyber cryptocurrency.

As first reported in Bitcoin Magazine on November 19, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s patent application 20150332395 or “Cryptographic Currency For Securities Settlement.” The patent described “ […] methods for settling securities in financial markets using distributed, peer-to-peer, and cryptographic techniques ” using a cryptocurrency named SETLcoin.

The application lists Paul Walker and Phil J. Venables as the inventors of the technology.

Walker is the co-head of technology at Goldman and a member of the Board of Directors of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC).  Venables is managing director and chief information security officer at Goldman Sachs.

The patent application addresses chain of custody of an asset, counterparty risk and settlement through a cryptocurrency called SETLcoin. According to the patent application viewed by Bitcoin Magazine, SETLcoin ownership can be used to prevent fraud, including float fraud such as kiting.

Goldman Sachs and IDG Capital Partners co-led a $50 million strategic investment round in Bitcoin company Circle in late April of this year. This was the first publicly announced cryptocurrency investment by Goldman. However, as reported by CB Insights, Goldman’s investment activity into fintech startups has been intensifying.

bond trading platform, RVQB

Fixed Income Trading Technology Part 5-RVQB Throws Hat in the Ring of Sell-Side Only Systems

MarketMuse update courtesy of repurpose from Brokerdealer.com, originally from Traders Magazine, one of the sell-side’s  top publications.

Quantitative Brokers and RiskVal have formed a partnership to create and deliver a fixed income trading platform, called RVQB.

The new sellside bond trading platform “combines powerful real-time analytics with seamless access to QB algorithms for best execution,” according to a press statement. Quantitative Brokers is a provider of agency algorithms for fixed income and futures markets. RiskVal Financial Solutions is a trading analytics and real-time risk management provider.

The RVQB platform integrates QB algorithms and RiskVal trading analytics and aims “to provide traders with real-time control and transparency into their outright and relative value executions.” The solution provides the bond trader with screens that can route orders to Legger, QB’s multi-leg execution strategy, for basis and relative value trading. During a demonstration of the trading platform in Manhattan yesterday, a bond trader can fill in a single trade with reduced keystrokes and data entry.

QB’s Legger algorithm executes user-defined structures with any ratio and number of legs across cash US Treasury and futures markets. A transactional cost analysis report is generated for each execution, providing full post-trade transparency on the order and slippage performance.

“Fixed income traders are continually looking for better ways to actively manage their enterprise-wide risk,” said Christian Hauff, CEO and co-founder of QB. “By marrying QB’s best execution algorithms with RiskVal’s proven relative value analytics, we have created a unique platform that integrates powerful trade discovery with superior execution tools.”

“The fixed income markets are rapidly evolving, and traders are seeking access to smarter and more transparent execution,” said Jordan Hu, founder and CEO of RiskVal. “As the market structure evolution continues, we are excited to address some of the key issues that fixed income traders face in the move to a more electronically-driven model.”

In 2014, both FINRA and the SEC approved QB as a broker-dealer for government securities.

Talking Trading Technology: This BrokerDealer Has Buyside Clients’ Back

marketsmedia logoBelow extract courtesy of 08 Dec edition of MarketsMedia.com; reporting by Steve Marlin

Agency Broker WallachBeth Raises Tech Bar

WallachBeth Capital, a provider of institutional execution for buy-side investment managers, recently appointed quantitative trading veteran Matthew Rowley to the newly created role of chief technology officer, signaling the firm’s commitment to delivering customized services that address specific and often complex order-execution and related business-process needs.

The company’s founders, Michael Wallach and David Beth, “have a vision of the industry becoming even more technologically driven,” Rowley told Markets Media.

Matt Rowley, WallachBeth
Matt Rowley, WallachBeth

Rowley joined WallachBeth from Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, where he was credited with helping the firm attain a leadership position in the global electronic brokerage space. more