(Editor’s note: As many firms have found out, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was serious when it announced a crackdown on the recordkeeping culture of the U.S. securities industry. Nearly 30 of the industry’s top financial services firms have been accused of violating recordkeeping rules. In fact, during the SEC’s 2023 fiscal year, 25… Read More >>
iCapital Buys Mirador to Better Serve Alts Space
iCapital, a platform provider for alternative investment markets, is hoping to expand its data management and reporting capabilities for the wealth management, family office, endowment, and foundation segment markets via its recently announced acquisition of Mirador, officials say. Mirador offers investment data aggregation, financial reporting services, middle office support, and IT solutions and products to… 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 >>
Clearstream Taps Intix to Bolster Data Management
Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trade services company Clearstream is working with data solutions provider Intix in an effort to meet regulatory and customer demands for better access and management of financial messaging data, officials say. Intix is a transaction data management platform that helps financial services firms “monitor, comply, manage risk, and detect fraud in every… Read More >>
Time to Step Up Your T+1 Game?
Another T+1 readiness survey has highlighted a persistent lack of preparedness among buy-side firms as the summer deadline for the T+1 transition for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico approaches. Despite the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp.’s (DTCC) assurances, recent reports from vendors and banks depict concerning levels of unpreparedness among investment managers. This lack 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 >>
CACEIS Adds PRIIPs Reporting Service
CACEIS, the asset servicing group of Crédit Agricole and Santander, is adding a reporting service for Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products (PRIIPS) via the Connect Store for clients of CACEIS’s private equity real estate solutions business line. PRIIPs “refers to a category of financial assets that are regularly provided to consumers in the European… Read More >>
Johnson Financial Group Taps the Cloud for IR Swaps
Johnson Financial Group has installed a risk management system for interest rate derivatives based upon a cloud-based platform from provider Derivative Path that is intended to enhance Johnson’s financial services offerings and be a foundation for related services to come. Based in Racine, Wisconsin, the privately owned Johnson Financial Group consists of subsidiaries Johnson Bank… Read More >>
Trading Technologies Acquires ATEO SAS
Trading Technologies International (TT) intends to expand its reach into clearing and other middle-office technologies and services via its acquisition of ATEO SAS, a provider of post-trade solutions for listed derivatives, officials say. TT is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology platform provider to global capital markets. The financial terms of the transaction, which closed on Feb…. Read More >>
Citi & Wellington Explore the Disruptive Power of Tokens
Late last year, Citi, Wellington Management, WisdomTree, and DTCC officials conducted a proof of concept (POC) experiment to explore how tokenization could be applied to private funds and to test the capital markets capabilities of blockchain technology. “Tokenization is the process of issuing a digital representation of an asset on a blockchain,” according to a… Read More >>
