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Artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics can help Africa’s mining companies optimize their operations and enable them to capitalize on growing demand for the minerals they produce. But new technology also brings new challenges that firms and governments must be ready to confront.

Firms reckon distributed ledgers can add transparency and efficiency to proxy voting

Deutsche Bank analysts took a closer look at equity options and synthetics markets this week

Greater attention is being placed on the way scarce collateral assets are deployed

US and Europe are becoming increasingly wary of Basel leverage ratio rules - panel

European regulator Esma said there was a slowdown in volume of swaps clearing

The US equities clearing giant has filed with the CFTC to change its testing regime

HQLAx, a tech firm founded by former UBS executive Guido Stroemer, is involved in the project

Panel said they were eyeing WFOE status as administered by Asset Management Association of China

The platform already covers equities and futures markets

Aite Group's experts predict increase stock loan tech spend and future vendor consolidation

Tim Collins has previously worked on synthetic finance desks at Citi, RBC Capital Markets and Barclays

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is introducing more technology in its own internal processes and is determined to become a more active - and reactive - investor. The fund’s decision to invest more in its own in-house technology came with the realisation that a slow down in its capacity to generate alpha was linked to a lack of investment in big data and AI. The post ADIA overhauls investment…

Traditionally, the Australian financing and stock loan activity was seen as largely between domestic counterparts, but this is now evolving to include global market participants

Deal values Canadian financial services provider DH at just over $2bn.

The system is expected go live during this year’s third quarter

Moving back into proprietary trading does not seem to be on the agenda

Bloomberg and Tradeweb dominate e-trading of US Treasuries between investors and dealers

The Hong Kong clearing mandate covers G4 and HK Dollar denominated swaps

The British government said in a paper it is not clear if the ECB can force Euro-clearing into the Eurozone