BCEE Implements SmartStream’s Corona Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat of Luxembourg (BCEE) has implemented a way to help the bank meet reporting and audit trails regulatory requirements of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that have a tight turnaround time. In general, banks only have a few weeks to reconcile annual data before the legal… Read More >>
Sell Side Adapts to FIX for Confirmations, Affirmations
It appears that sell-side firms are becoming more comfortable with the extension of the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading protocol for post-trade purposes as 75 percent of broker/dealer respondents in a new survey say they use FIX for confirmation/affirmation workflows. The FIX Trading Community, the standards body for the protocol, conducted the Global Post-Trade Survey… Read More >>
Would You Pay $812,460 to Fax Confirmations?
Manual processing stings especially in the investment fund services industry. Order placement, confirmation, fund transfer and reconciliation processes remain dominated by little or no automation, says market research firm Aite Group. In one case, a fund management firm spends $812,460 (€600,000) annually on faxes for its Taiwanese investors—representing 30% of the total transfer agency bill… Read More >>
