A Japanese regional bank, FFG Asset Management, is moving to “no touch” post-trade processing for equities and fixed income transactions via the services of the Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) suite from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC). FFG AM, based in Fukuoka, reports that it has selected DTCC’s CTM for the centralized matching of… 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 >>
GBST Now Certified for Omgeo CTM
GBST Holdings Ltd. (GBST), a provider of securities transaction and fund administration software for the financial services industry, reports that it and Omgeo, a wholly owned subsidiary of The DTCC, have developed and certified a new iteration of GBST’s Syn~ application that features connectivity with Omgeo’s Central Trade Manager (CTM). The new application provides clients… Read More >>
