CMA Starts Phase 2 Review of FNZ-GBST Union A U.K. regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is moving ahead with a formal investigation into FNZ’s acquisition of GBST Holdings Ltd., following a recent announcement that CMA officials were mulling this next step. “On 30 March 2020, the CMA decided that it was or may… Read More >>
NYFIX Matching Now Supports SWIFT Messaging
Itiviti & ECS Partner to Bolster NYFIX Matching Itiviti, a technology and service provider to financial institutions, reports the advent of a partnership with ECS Fin, a provider of financial messaging services and transaction-processing solutions, that will add trade settlement to NYFIX Matching. The partnership, Itiviti says, will enable NYFIX Matching to process trade messages… Read More >>
SmartStream Partners with Cassini to Ease IM Compliance
Post-trade services and systems vendor SmartStream Technologies is partnering with Cassini Systems, a margin analytics vendor serving the buy side in derivatives trading, in an effort to ease the operational burden of managing initial margin requirements for uncleared, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The vendors will focus on financial institutions that are beginning the create new operational… Read More >>
SmartStream & Numerix Partner to Ease IM Requirements
Two Vendors Focus on Noncleared OTC Derivatives SmartStream Technologies, a post-trade systems and services provider, and Numerix, a risk technology vendor, report an agreement intended to better support end users in complying with the International Swaps and Derivative Association’s (ISDA) standards governing margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. In order to facilitate the over-the-counter (OTC)… Read More >>
