(FTF News recently got time with Robert Walley, principal, financial services at consultancy Deloitte, to discuss the securities industry’s move to a shorter settlement cycle of trading day plus another day, a.k.a. T+1, which is underway in North America. Walley leads Deloitte’s capital markets and global financial markets industry sectors. He helps clients with transformations… Read More >>
Financial Crime Fighting’s Price Tag Hits $206B
Financial crimes cost banks and other financial services institutions big bucks. This means that complying with the rules and processes meant to deter those financial crimes costs big bucks too. Makes sense, right? Now, thanks to our friends at LexisNexis and Forrester Research, we have a snapshot of the actual numbers. According to the report “True Cost… Read More >>
Baton Debuts Cash Settlement via DLT & Other News
Solution Uses DLT Workflows from Baton Systems Baton Systems has launched a real-time solution for cash settlement based upon distributed ledger technology (DLT), dubbed Core-Payments, which tracks and reconciles inbound cash settlements and helps firms “orchestrate the release of outbound cash payments,” officials say. The new solution, which Baton Systems says is being deployed by… Read More >>
T+1 Could Expose Ops Woes for Many Firms
The pain, suffering, and costs of doing business in the global securities industry are likely to increase as a result of the push for shorter settlement cycles, which is underway in the U.S. and Canada as firms there transition to trading day plus one, a.k.a. T+1. That was one of the unvarnished takeaways from a… Read More >>
SIFMA Criticizes SEC’s Rulemaking Under Gensler
SEC Chair Gary Gensler has recently come under fire for the 63 new rules that have been proposed during his time at the helm. One of the most prominent voices in the U.S. securities industry Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., president and CEO of SIFMA, is taking on Gensler and is offering data to back up… Read More >>
SmartStream Picks a New CEO & Other News
Akber Jaffer Replaces Haytham Kaddoura as CEO SmartStream, the post-trade operations solutions provider, has appointed Akber Jaffer as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective September 19. Jaffer replaces Haytham Kaddoura, who has stepped down from the CEO post. Kaddoura will join SmartStream’s board. Jaffer has “spent several years immersed in both start-up and scaled… Read More >>
JPMorgan & TCS Expand Alliance & Other SIBOS News
While SWIFT’s SIBOS conference and exhibit is known for serving many financial services sectors at once, the securities community at the weeklong event in Toronto last week had a lot to explore, including the news from JPMorgan, which added corporate actions processing support from TCS, EquiLend embracing DLT, and Duco exploring new technologies. JPMorgan Securities… Read More >>
DTCC & Others Want Ops Standards for Digital Assets
Clearing agencies DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear on September 18 called upon the financial services sector to develop industry standards for digital assets, including blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) for trading digital securities and tokenized securities. Without industry standards, the growth of digital assets in the financial sector will slow and even stall, argue the agencies, which… Read More >>
SEC Proposes IT Amendments for EDGAR
Fall is in the air. And that means big new movies and TV shows (despite the strikes by Hollywood writers and actors). This year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has gotten into the spirit of the season with a proposal to amend EDGAR. EDGAR, as we all know, is shorthand for the Electronic… Read More >>
Options Plans to Hire 200 Over 3 Years & Other News
200 New Jobs Are Coming to Belfast Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services, plans to “create 200 new jobs in Belfast over the next three years” as it expands its operations, officials say. The company is headquartered in Belfast City Centre’s Linen Loft building. The company added “100 new team members” over the… Read More >>
