The incoming Trump administration will have clean slates as far as regulating U.S. securities and commodities markets as Rostin Behnam, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced on January 7 that he will be stepping down from his position on January 20 with his final day being Friday, February 7. Behnam was… Read More >>
Financial Information Inc. Unveils North American IPO Service
Financial Information Inc. (FII), a provider of corporate action data and historical reference services, has unveiled its North American Exchange Initial Public Offering (IPO) Service. Aimed at investment firms, financial institutions, and consultancies operating in U.S. markets, the service is intended to streamline IPO processes on North American exchanges by collating comprehensive data and insights… Read More >>
FIS & OSTTRA Push for More ETD Transparency
Financial technology provider FIS Global and post-trade solutions provider OSTTRA have launched a partnership aimed at yielding new avenues of transparency to clients via real-time clearing status views into the post-trade lifecycle of exchange-traded derivatives (ETD), officials say. “Through the partnership, the OSTTRA network of investment management clients will benefit from receiving a real-time clearing… Read More >>
FICC Debuts Risk Tool for U.S. Treasury Clearing
Industry players in U.S. Treasury transaction markets can now access a free, public-facing Value at Risk (VaR) calculator that will help them comply with SEC rules that will expand clearing requirements for them. The DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corp. (FICC) has launched the new tool, accessible via a web browser, which provides “the ability to… Read More >>
FTF Reveals the Winners of the 2024 FTF Awards
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) proudly announces the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition winners. The awards effort shines the spotlight on the winners of the FTF Awards competition — now in its 13th year — for their accomplishments in 2023 and on individuals who have made great contributions to their profession and those who… Read More >>
BondWave & DbCom Integrate Analytics & Compliance
BondWave, a fixed income solutions provider, and DbCom Inc., a financial technology company, have integrated BondWave’s pre-trade and post-trade transaction analytics with DbCom’s business and compliance platform, EQube, officials say. The new integration will be delivered via BondWave’s Effi application programming interface (API) to offer trade surveillance in support of “best execution, fair pricing, and… Read More >>
The Ops-A.I. Revolution Has Begun: SS&C’s Bill Stone
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 >>
FTF Unveils the 2024 FTF Awards Nominees!
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has unveiled the nominations for the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition, and the list of nominees reflects the dynamics of an industry facing digital transitions, a major effort to shorten settlement, and a final push to eliminate manual processes. The winners of the FTF Awards competition are chosen by… 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 >>
Nominations Are Open for the 2024 FTF Awards!
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has launched the nomination process for the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition, which recognizes the operational excellence of professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, and industry bodies that had significant achievements in the 2023 calendar year. The winners of the FTF Awards competition are chosen by their peers in… Read More >>
