When it comes to deciding which division within a financial services firm should get priority for a digital overhaul, the operations and the sales and marketing groups come second to teams overseeing customer experiences, according to a new survey about next generational technology conducted by Broadridge Financial Solutions. The report, “Fast-tracking digital transformation through next-gen… Read More >>
Broadridge & DTCC Target Voluntary Corporate Actions
Broadridge Financial Solutions is laying the groundwork for an automated path for voluntary corporate actions in standardized ISO 20022 format via a connection to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.’s new automated process for submitting instructions, officials say. The securities industry has been wrestling with the inefficient manual aspects of corporate actions processing for many… Read More >>
Millennial Wave Coming for Financial Advisors: Survey
Apparently, there’s at least one thing that the Millennial generation likes that their Boomer parents also like — enlisting financial advisors. This might be good news for securities trading firms worried that the wealth of young America was heading down a cryptocurrency rabbit hole. This was uncovered via a new study sponsored by post-trade systems… Read More >>
UBS Joins Broadridge’s Platform for Repo Transactions
Broadridge Financial Solutions has gotten the endorsement of Swiss banking giant UBS for a distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform that promises participants greater liquidity, less risk, and reduced operation costs, officials say. Vendor officials say that the DLR system provides a single platform for market participants to agree, execute and settle repo transactions. “Under a… Read More >>
NYFIX to Expand Post-Trade Services via Acquisition
Broadridge Buys Itiviti Partner Alpha Omega Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired Alpha Omega, a post-trade solutions provider that uses the FIX electronic trading protocol, a move that will expand NYFIX’s post-trade services, officials say. Alpha Omega is a longtime partner of Itiviti, which itself is the result of the 2016 combination of NYFIX and Ullink. Broadridge… Read More >>
Crypto Undermines SEC’s Mission: Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Warren Urges SEC to Consider Crypto Regs Wall Street critic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is asking Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, via a recent letter, to investigate the ways that cryptocurrency exchanges “may be undermining the SEC’s mission” as a regulator of securities trading markets. The letter from Warren, who is… Read More >>
Broadridge Buys J&J Unit to Bolster RegTech Services
Broadridge Financial Solutions is bolstering its regulatory compliance services for broker-dealers via an acquisition of the cloud-based Execution Compliance and Surveillance Service (ECS) assets of Wall Street consultancy Jordan & Jordan (J&J), officials say. J&J officials describe their ECS offering as a managed service that includes “comprehensive reviews to assess compliance with various aspects of… Read More >>
JPMorgan Asset Management Buys Campbell Global
JPMorgan Asset Management Boosts ESG Offerings JPMorgan Asset Management has acquired Campbell Global, described as “a forest management and timberland investing company,” as a way of facilitating transitions to a low-carbon economy and opportunities for those investors that want to support environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns, officials say. JPMorgan officials declined to disclose the… Read More >>
Broadridge’s DLR Handles $31B in Repos Daily
Post-trade systems and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions officially launched on June 7 its distributed ledger repo (DLR) platform for bilateral repo trades that executed $31 billion in average daily volume during its first week. The blockchain-based transaction platform helps market participants “agree, execute and settle repo transactions,” officials say. Broadridge is hoping that the… Read More >>
AllianceBernstein Jolts Corporate Bond Trading via A.I.
Asset manager AllianceBernstein applied artificial intelligence (A.I.) to a corporate bond block trade transaction and found that the effort yielded far greater access to liquidity than conducting the transaction over the phone. The firm used a patented protocol, dubbed RFX, that uses A.I. technology and is part of corporate bond trading platform from LTX, a… Read More >>
