Asset manager Franklin Templeton and Microsoft are collaborating to develop a platform for financial services that uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology to initially improve the productivity of the firm’s sales and marketing teams and to foster personalized services for clients. The new A.I. platform to come will use Microsoft Azure A.I. services such as Azure… Read More >>
Performance Teams Are at a Crossroads
Advances in technology and workflow management appear to be changing forever the work of performance measurement teams and how they accomplish it, according to a new white paper “In the Thick of It: How Performance Teams are Driving Value Across the Organization,” from FactSet. For instance, nine out 10 respondents to the survey — upon… Read More >>
Finastra Taps OpenFin to Bolster Kondor
Finastra, a financial software applications and marketplaces provider, is collaborating with OpenFin to improve the user experience of Finastra Kondor, a well-established bank treasury management system, officials say. The OpenFin technology is intended to strengthen Kondor “with enhanced workspaces and workflows to drive greater efficiencies and streamline the decision-making process for banks,” according to the… Read More >>
T+1 Self-Affirmation Rates Below Expectations
The DTCC is urging investment managers and custodians to collaborate on technology and automation solutions after its latest statistics on the industry’s affirmation progress revealed a disparity in affirmation rates between those using manual processes and those utilizing centralized matching tools. With the implementation of a T+1 settlement cycle in the U.S. less than a… Read More >>
Droit & Finbourne Want Regulatory Clarity for Position Reporting
(Editor’s note: Droit Financial Technologies, a provider of pre-and post-trade offerings including a client readiness offering and trade and transaction reporting such as point of trade and position reporting, is collaborating with Finbourne Technology, a provider of cloud-based investment data management software. Together they are delivering a solution that combines regulatory interpretations, regulatory clarity, and… Read More >>
TMX, Clearstream & 5 Banks Launch Tri-Party Repo Service
TMX Group and Clearstream have launched the first domestic tri-party repo capability for the Canadian market, dubbed the Canadian Collateral Management Service (CCMS), which has already transactions via the support of BMO, CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank, and TD, officials say The service will support collateral management within the shorter, T+1 settlement requirements that take effect later… Read More >>
FINRA Is Closely Watching for Inaccurate CAT Reporting
The controversial Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), which has already been fending off lawsuits and industry pushback, has had “instances of millions if not billions of late or inaccurately reported order events,” says Bill St. Louis, executive vice president and head of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The need to stay on top… Read More >>
BondWave & DbCom Integrate Analytics & Compliance
BondWave, a fixed income solutions provider, and DbCom Inc., a financial technology company, have integrated BondWave’s pre-trade and post-trade transaction analytics with DbCom’s business and compliance platform, EQube, officials say. The new integration will be delivered via BondWave’s Effi application programming interface (API) to offer trade surveillance in support of “best execution, fair pricing, and… Read More >>
Gresham Applies A.I.-ML Breakthrough to Trade Breaks
Necessity is still the mother of invention especially when it comes to applying artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning (ML) to the investigation of trade breaks as Gresham Technologies has learned. By using A.I. & ML to investigate and then learn from trade breaks, a Gresham client facing repetitive trade breaks has had a 66… Read More >>
Options & Magtia Partner for Cross-Referencing Data Platform
The new partnership between Options Technology, a capital markets trading infrastructure provider, and Magtia Ltd., a financial symbology platform vendor, will yield a cross-referencing data platform for multi-asset class content that will serve front, middle, and back-office securities operations. The partnership will result in customized application programming interface (API) connectivity combined with symbology and cross-referencing… Read More >>
