Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is expanding its Infomediary data integration and connectivity offering into a broader set of data management services, now known as Infomediary Data Solutions. The updated suite of data offerings, part of BBH’s Investor Services division, targets asset managers and financial institutions with a combination of data management technology and managed services,… Read More >>
CACEIS Adds PRIIPs Reporting Service
CACEIS, the asset servicing group of Crédit Agricole and Santander, is adding a reporting service for Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products (PRIIPS) via the Connect Store for clients of CACEIS’s private equity real estate solutions business line. PRIIPs “refers to a category of financial assets that are regularly provided to consumers in the European… Read More >>
OSTTRA Launches PvP Settlement for FX Transactions
Post-trade solutions provider OSTTRA is collaborating with Baton Systems to launch an on-demand payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement service for foreign exchange (FX) transactions that is intended to mitigate bilateral settlement risk, officials say. The PvP system is also intended to optimize intraday funding, liquidity, and credit risk, officials add. The OSTTRA system will use Baton’s distributed… Read More >>
DTCC Pilot Pushes Automation for Corporate Actions Processing
DTCC officials have just announced that they are forging ahead with a two-phased pilot program to bring more automation to corporate actions (CA) processing. The effort is intended to deliver “new efficiencies and capabilities that address decades-long asset services challenges around the sourcing of corporate actions announcements,” according to the DTCC. “The pilot, which includes… Read More >>
Trading Technologies Acquires ATEO SAS
Trading Technologies International (TT) intends to expand its reach into clearing and other middle-office technologies and services via its acquisition of ATEO SAS, a provider of post-trade solutions for listed derivatives, officials say. TT is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology platform provider to global capital markets. The financial terms of the transaction, which closed on Feb…. Read More >>
Partnership Links SIX’s Connexor to D7 Platform
SIX, a Swiss financial markets data provider and exchanges company, is partnering with Clearstream to become the reference data processor for the instruments supported by the D7 digital post-trade platform from Deutsche Börse. The partnership will yield a link from SIX’s Connexor platform for reference data distribution to D7, facilitating a one-stop shop for international… Read More >>
TD Securities Taps SwapAgent for Bilateral Clearing
Clients of TD Securities looking for the clearing of bilateral derivative transactions can use the services of SwapAgent as the Canadian investment bank has gone live as a new member of the clearinghouse, officials say. SwapAgent, whose parent company is the LCH Group, offers processing, margining, and settlement services for non-cleared derivatives. “SwapAgent is the… Read More >>
A.I.’s Benefits for T+1 Are Within Reach
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has the potential to automate tasks and boost operational efficacy within post-trade operations impacted by the transition to T+1. Accenture calculates A.I. could deliver a 30 to 40 percent improvement in efficiency within post-trade operations impacted by the move from T+2 to T+1 in May for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Meanwhile,… Read More >>
Hudson Bay Capital Management Taps SS&C GlobeOp
Hudson Bay Capital Management has tapped SS&C GlobeOp to be its fund administrator, which is in addition to the multi-strategy investment firm’s usage of trade operations and investor support solutions from SS&C Technologies, officials say. Hudson Bay, which is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., picked SS&C “after a thorough evaluation process,” according to the official announcement…. Read More >>
NICE Actimize Applies Generative A.I. to New Solutions
NICE Actimize, a provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions, has embraced generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) for three new solutions that target financial crime in ways intended to help overwhelmed financial crime and fraud teams at financial services firms, officials say. Generative A.I. are algorithms “that can be used to create new content, including… Read More >>
