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Nasdaq Calypso to power shared treasury platform for Georgia. Nasdaq has partnered with the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) to deploy its Calypso treasury and capital markets platform across five of the country's largest commercial banks: Bank of Georgia, TBC Bank, Liberty Bank, Terabank and Basisbank. The deployment, coordinated under the Georgian Market Advancement Program (GMAP) and the Georgian Financial Markets Treasuries' Association (GFMTA), marks one of the more structured country-level treasury modernisation programmes to emerge in the South Caucasus region. The five participating institutions collectively hold the majority of Georgia's commercial banking sector assets, which have approached USD 38 billion following double-digit growth over the past five years. Rather than each bank procuring and operating the platform individually, all five will share a single Calypso instance hosted at a centralised location, with each institution represented as a separate entity and its data fully segregated. Project management funding has been provided by Japan through the Japan-EBRD Cooperation Fund. The deal. The platform will span the complete front-to-back trade lifecycle: front-office deal capture and pricing, middle-office risk management and compliance, and back-office settlement, accounting and financial reporting. The shared architecture also delivers a standardised reporting layer, which the NBG says will give it materially improved visibility into treasury exposures, liquidity positions and systemic risk across the sector. Common data standards include alignment with ISO 20022, the global financial messaging framework increasingly mandated in cross-border payment and securities settlement. NBG Governor Natia Turnava said the initiative reflects the central bank's commitment to building a financial market that is "robust, transparent, aligned with international best practice, and equipped to support Georgia's continued economic growth." Magnus Haglind, head of capital markets technology at Nasdaq, framed the model as a template for emerging markets: "By drawing on Nasdaq's experience navigating modernisation programs at scale, firms gain access to deep institutional knowledge and the ability to evolve without bearing the full cost, risk, or operational complexity of doing it alone." Market context. The shared-infrastructure model is gaining traction beyond Georgia. Several smaller markets have found that the capital and operational burden of deploying enterprise-grade treasury systems at the individual bank level is prohibitive, particularly as regulatory requirements for risk reporting and audit trails tighten. A centralised deployment funded through a multilateral framework, in this case drawing on EBRD cooperation funds alongside the NBG's institutional coordination, addresses that constraint without requiring each bank to replicate the full implementation cost. Nasdaq's Calypso platform competes in the treasury and capital markets technology space against vendors including Murex, Finastra and ION Group, all of which offer comparable front-to-back architectures. The competitive differentiator here appears to be Nasdaq's willingness to structure a multi-institution shared instance, a deployment model that requires the central bank to act as a coordinating authority, as the NBG does here. For Georgia, the broader significance is regulatory convergence. The GMAP initiative, if implemented on schedule, should put the country's five largest banks on harmonised reporting standards and unified audit infrastructure, reducing the fragmentation that has historically complicated macroprudential oversight. The NBG, which functions as an integrated financial supervisor covering commercial banks, payment service providers and virtual asset service providers, stands to gain as much from the supervisory data as the individual banks gain from the operational efficiency.

ION XTP Central Limits wins "Best Pre-Trade Risk Controls Provider" at TradingTech Insight Awards - USA 2026. PR Newswire Today at 12:00am PDT LONDON, June 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - ION, a global leader in trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporates, announces that ION XTP Central Limits has won "Best Pre-Trade Risk Controls Provider" at TradingTech Insight Awards - USA 2026. The A-Team TradingTech Insight Awards - USA 2026 celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services, highlighting vendors who provide outstanding trading infrastructure, technology, and data solutions to capital markets participants across North America. XTP Central Limits is a multi-market and multi-platform limit management system, which brings together risk, and limit controls from disparate trading systems into a single dashboard. It addresses the key industry need for pre-trade risk configurations to be monitored continuously, ensuring that limits are correct and haven't been changed by unauthorized individuals. Controlling access to different trading platforms and maintaining pre-trade limits has traditionally been a manual process managed using emails and spreadsheets. XTP Central Limits formalizes the limit management and approval process. The solution allows workflows with various levels of approval, audit trails to track each approval stage, and updates of the pre-trade risk layers in trading platforms. XTP Central Limits interfaces with multiple order management systems (OMS), exchange trading platforms, and execution management systems (EMS). The solution provides a centralized limit approval process that is trading-platform agnostic. Enrico Melchioni, Product Manager Risk & Market Surveillance, ION, said, "We are delighted to have won the Best Pre-Trade Risk Controls Provider award at TradingTech Insight Awards - USA 2026. At ION, we are continuously working to deliver risk and compliance solutions that meet the needs of our customers in a changing global landscape, and this recognition reflects that commitment." Angela Wilbraham, CEO of A-Team Group and host of the 8th annual TradingTech Insight Awards USA 2026, commented, "It is a pleasure to congratulate ION for winning the Best Pre-Trade Risk Controls Provider at this year's TradingTech Insight Awards USA. These awards recognize the visionaries who are redefining the boundaries of capital markets technology. ION has demonstrated exceptional innovation in delivering the high-performance infrastructure and data-led solutions required to succeed in today's complex trading landscape. Their success in such a competitive field is a testament to their commitment to driving the industry forward." ION provides mission-critical trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporate organizations. Our solutions and services simplify complex processes, boost efficiency, and enable better decision-making. We build long-term partnerships with our clients, helping transform their businesses for sustained success through continuous innovation. For more information, visit https://iongroup.com/ About TradingTech Insight Awards - USA 2026 The TradingTech Insight Awards - USA 2026 celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services, highlighting vendors who provide outstanding trading infrastructure, technology, and data solutions to capital markets participants across North America. For more information, https://a-teaminsight.com/awards/tradingtech-insight-awards-north-america/ All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners. SOURCE ION This is a paid placement. For further inquiries, please contact PR Newswire directly.