JPMorgan Backs Fintech Seeking to Disrupt Trillion-Dollar Market
(Bloomberg) -- One of the world's biggest banks wants to boost profits by cutting out voice brokers acting as middlemen in the largest derivatives market.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. signed startup Wematch Interest Rates to its in-house fintech program, which helps new firms build products for use across the banking industry. New York-based JPMorgan and other dealers will eventually be able to use Wematch's platform to negotiate trades in interest-rate markets.
“It is exciting to see a small group of market experts have the chance to build a product that can significantly impact the bottom line of large banks,” Pasquale Cataldi, head of fixed-income execution services at JPMorgan, said in a statement.
By signing up Wematch, JPMorgan becomes the latest bank racing to use automation to get an edge in trading.
Wematch's service is based on a subscription model and the technology has already been adopted by dealers in other market segments such as equity derivatives and securities financing.
The technology could disrupt the business of firms such as BGC Partners Inc. and TP ICAP Plc, which play a significant role in brokering trades in currencies, fixed income and derivatives, while siphoning off fees for their efforts.
Wematch Interest Rates is a unit of London Wematch.live Group. The market it's looking to break into is huge: The market value of OTC interest-rate derivatives was $7.6 trillion in the second half of 2017, according to the latest Bank for International Settlements data.
Reducing Costs
“We are developing new matching and negotiation engines with JPMorgan's product teams,” Mikhael Farouz, market expert for interest rates and FX at Wematch.live, said in the statement. “This technology will be tailored to trading interest-rate instruments, while improving market efficiency and reducing execution costs for all dealers.”
JPMorgan's fintech program also sometimes invests in the fledgling companies it backs.
To contact the reporter on this story: Viren Vaghela in London at vvaghela1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Ambereen Choudhury at achoudhury@bloomberg.net, Paul Armstrong, Andrew Blackman
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