Fenergo has launched a trader request platform for the energy and commodities sector that combines artificial intelligence (A.I.), know your customer (KYC), and onboarding features in an effort to streamline compliance and onboarding processes, officials say. The Trader Request Portal “was purpose-built to address one of the industry’s most persistent challenges of improving collaboration and… Read More >>
T+1 Cuts Risks But Pain Points Remain: ISITC
A U.S. securities industry standards group says key issues it raised with regulators prior to the T+1 transition in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico on May 28 last year continue to be pain points for its members. The International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the development… Read More >>
Trump’s Team Pushes Hard for Crypto Regulatory Overhaul
The new Trump administration’s crypto- and digital asset train is moving full speed ahead to help Trump deliver on a campaign promise to make the USA the “crypto capital of the planet.” The impact on the securities industry and operations could be profound as the Trump team wants to fast-track innovation, new rules, guardrails, and… Read More >>
Digital Custody Can Be Part of a Unified Strategy
(Many in the securities industry are getting ready to accommodate client demands for digital and crypto-based assets, particularly those working in the back office. One such industry participant is Apex Group, which describes itself as a single-source solution provider for capital raising and advisory services, fund services, management company services, digital banking, depositary, custody, corporate… Read More >>
SEC Quietly Approves Cost Savings for the CAT System
It’s been a while since I wrote about the ambitious and controversial big data, U.S. securities transaction monitoring project known as the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), which has been helping regulators FINRA and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) monitor U.S. equity and options markets, exchanges, participants, transactions, and more. CAT issues have receded as… Read More >>
JSCC Adopts ISDA’s DRR for Regulatory Reporting
The Japan Securities Clearing Corp. (JSCC) has become the first central clearing counterparty in Japan to integrate the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) framework and the Common Domain Model (CDM) from ISDA but now managed by the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) into a production environment. As of June 2025,… Read More >>
Pemberton Picks Broadridge’s Sentry for Portfolio Management
European private debt manager Pemberton Capital Advisors has selected Ops systems and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions’ Sentry Private Credit Portfolio Management platform, officials say. The technology is intended to help Pemberton achieve operational efficiencies throughout its portfolio management lifecycle and scale its private debt and collateralized loan obligation (CLO) businesses to meet growing demand,… Read More >>
Broadridge Applies GenA.I. Analytics to Ops Minus Hallucinations
Post-trade services and systems provider Broadridge Financial Solutions has integrated an advanced analytics feature into its OpsGPT application that is intended to help broker-dealers and banks retrieve actionable insights quickly minus the complexity of traditional reporting tools, officials say. Applying A.I.-based technologies to established securities operations systems is happening in fits and starts and not… Read More >>
Wisconsin Pension Agency to Adopt SimCorp’s IBOR
Officials say that the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) will be working with investment management solutions provider SimCorp to retire an outsourced investment book of record and bring the IBOR in-house to take advantage of real-time data on its positions and exposures across the organization. Created in 1951, SWIB is an independent state agency overseeing… Read More >>
Neuberger Berman Taps Arcesium for Specialty Finance Ops
Neuberger Berman Specialty Finance (NBSF) will be working with operational and data management technology provider Arcesium to help scale the investment manager’s asset-based financing strategy, officials say. NBSF will be using Arcesium’s Opterra and Aquata operational and data platforms, along with managed services, “to achieve a resilient and sophisticated operating model,” officials say. Arcesium’s platforms… Read More >>
