Cybersecurity efforts at many financial services firms are falling behind new IT systems such as cloud migration tools and blockchain systems, and the situation is likely to get worse, according to survey from the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) that was conducted by the Ponemon Institute. “The consensus among respondents to the survey is that… Read More >>
Northern Trust Launches Performance Analytics Tool
Northern Trust’s ‘Radar’ Helps with Performance Insight Northern Trust has launched a proprietary reporting tool to help institutional investors gain insights as they track and analyze risk and performance across their portfolios, officials say. The Performance Radar offering is the latest addition to Northern Trust’s Investment Risk and Analytical Services (IRAS) group, and is intended… Read More >>
TCS BaNCS Makes Blockchain Work for Corporate Actions
(Editor’s note: TCS BaNCS won the 2019 Best Blockchain Breakthrough of the Year award for its Quartz Blockchain solution set, which consists of four product lines: Smart Solutions, the DevKit, Gateway and Command Center. FTF News got time with R. Vivekanand, vice-president and co-head for TCS Financial Solutions at Tata Consultancy Services. For his role,… Read More >>
SEC Explores Impacts of Digital Assets at Forum
The SEC is shining more light on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital assets via a forum on May 31 hosted by the regulator’s Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub), an effort to actively engage with innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs. The event is an acknowledgment of the importance of DLT and digital assets… Read More >>
Northern Trust Transforms PE Clauses into Smart Contracts
Northern Trust reports that it has added to its private equity services by enabling private equity participants to negotiate, review and digitally sign legal agreements via an administrative blockchain. Officials say that Northern Trust and its partners have developed a way to deploy legal clauses as smart contracts in a direct way from a digital… Read More >>
ISITC to Scrutinize Disruptive IT at Spring Summit
David Scola, head of North America for the SWIFT financial messaging and services cooperative, will dive into the impacts of disruptive technologies such as open application programming interfaces (APIs), distributed ledger technology (DLT), artificial intelligence and machine learning at ISITC’s 25th Annual Securities Operations Summit later this month in Boston. Scola is serving as moderator… Read More >>
$462B Market for Financial Blockchains by 2030: Report
Despite growing skepticism about blockchain projects for financial services, business information provider IHS Markit is predicting in a new report that revenues via these efforts will soar to $462 billion by 2030. A key harbinger of the times to come is “the value of blockchain in the financial sector reached $1.9 billion in 2017,” according… Read More >>
AxiomSL Hires CFO from Charles River Development
David Weber to Serve as CFO &COO for AxiomSL AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management services, reports the appointment of David Weber as chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO). Weber is a financial services industry veteran, with more than 30 years of financial management and operations experience, AxiomSL says…. Read More >>
Commerzbank & HSBC Strike Strategic Settlement Partnership
Commerzbank and HSBC have struck a strategic partnership that will see the German bank transferring its securities settlement operations to a newly created joint venture with HSBC Transaction Services. Commerzbank will have a 20 percent stake in the joint venture that will begin operations in early 2020 and continue for an initial period of 10… Read More >>
How Real is the Bitcoin Phenomenon?
As I’m writing this piece, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the price of bitcoin currency is hitting a new high: “The price of bitcoin crossed $13,000 on Wednesday afternoon, the latest milestone in the cryptocurrency’s massive rise.” We are having a moment with Bitcoin, which strangely follows the securities industry’s fascination with the… Read More >>
