From Bill Stone’s perspective as chairman and CEO of SS&C Technologies, the fairly recent advances that SS&C has made into the Abu Dhabi market and with artificial intelligence (A.I.) are examples of the same thing — the company is breaking new ground literally and figuratively in the highly competitive world of post-trade systems, software, services,… Read More >>
Can A.I. Advance Automation in Commodities Trading?
Can technologies based upon artificial intelligence (A.I.) help squeeze out the manual processes that can clog the plumbing of commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions? Quor Group, a provider of CTRM solutions, and ClearDox LLC, a commodities solutions provider that leverages A.I., think it can be done and have begun a collaboration. They are… Read More >>
Clearstream Joins ECB’s DLT-for-Settlement Trials
Clearstream, the post-trade business unit of Deutsche Börse Group, has joined the distributed-ledger technology (DLT) trials and experiments of the European Central Bank (ECB), which is exploring DLT’s potential for wholesale central bank money settlement, given the emergence of a digital Euro. “The ECB trials will be conducted in a productive environment, using real central… Read More >>
Perennial Partners Taps SS&C for Transfer Agency Services
Perennial Partners will be deploying a transfer agency and investor servicing system, the Global Investor and Distribution Solutions (GIDS) from SS&C Technologies, to streamline unit registry/call center services across its financial product lines, according to the Australian asset manager. “SS&C’s Managed Fund Administration unit will provide a full range of services to Perennial’s investors across… Read More >>
Corporate Actions Pilot Takes Aim at Manual Processes
(Editor’s Note: In early March, DTCC officials conducted a two-phased pilot program to bring more automation to corporate actions (CA) processing. The effort addresses decades-long asset services challenges around the sourcing of corporate actions announcements via streamlining interactions across the agent and issuer community through standards and automation. The ultimate goal is to eliminate manual… Read More >>
Shrinking Bonuses Pale in Comparison to the A.I. Threat
Many Wall Street participants, including middle- and back-office teams, are getting ready to celebrate a variety of spring holidays with the added bonus of a real bonus for their efforts last year. However, some may find that their bonuses have shrunk compared to last year. What may be more disturbing, though, is that a prominent… Read More >>
FundGuard Raises $100M to Ramp Up Platform & Staff
FundGuard, an investment accounting platform provider founded in 2018, has just raised $100 million via Series C funding — generally for late-stage startups — because the company is the first of its kind in 25 years to advance securities operations, company officials say. FundGard will be using the cash infusion to hasten the development of… Read More >>
Firms Brace for Expensive T+1 Settlement Failures
The industry is steeling itself for a turbulent period of adjustment with the imminent transition to shortened settlement in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada on May 28, amid analyst forecasts of a quadrupling of settlement failures. A recent Bloomberg Intelligence report has predicted a fourfold increase in settlement failures in T+1, costing a whopping $7.1… 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 >>
ETF Industry Braces for T+1 Ops Headaches
U.S. regulators are leaving it to the $10 trillion exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry to devise solutions for securities operation headaches arising from the North American transition to T+1 settlement scheduled for May 28 of this year. The International Securities Services Association (ISSA) says it has had some “useful discussions” with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission… Read More >>
