(The Swift global cooperative for financial messaging is ending its support for the legacy MT standards for cross-border payments on Nov. 22, 2025, and is urging firms to transition to the updated ISO 20022 standard. This follows the Swift community’s decision in 2018 to adopt ISO 20022 for cross-border payments and reporting. The global embrace… Read More >>
Can Tokenization Save Asset Managers $135 Billion?
Tokenization is “the process of transforming asset ownership into digital tokens on a blockchain,” and it could also be one of the fastest ways for the asset management industry to save $135 billion by trimming the costs associated with traditional fund accounting, transfer agencies, compliance monitoring, and regulatory reporting. This is according to the recently… Read More >>
U.K. Fires Starting Gun on T+1 Settlement
The U.K. Accelerated Settlement Taskforce (AST) has officially kicked off the transition to a T+1 settlement cycle, with backing from the U.K. government, the Bank of England, and the U.K. regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The switch is set for October 11, 2027, marking a major operational shift for UK financial services firms. AST… Read More >>
Advyzon & StoneX Collaborate on Wealth Management
Advyzon Enterprise Solutions is partnering with the Correspondent Clearing division of StoneX Financial Inc. to bring Advyzon’s technology platform and portfolio management solution to StoneX’s introducing broker-dealers and financial advisors, officials say. A wholly owned subsidiary of StoneX Group Inc., StoneX Correspondent Clearing is a financial services firm that provides global market access, clearing and… Read More >>
Euroclear to Deploy BBH’s IDS Platform
Asset servicing provider Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is working with Euroclear, the Brussels-based international central securities depository (ICSD), to provide SWIFT message transformation and network connectivity for Euroclear’s new Bilateral Repo service, officials say. “Enabling repo market participants’ connectivity to multiple custodians is a key attribute of this new service and provides highly sought-after depository… Read More >>
A New CFTC May Emerge from the Disruption
The Trump White House has put forward Brian Quintenz as the next chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and, if confirmed, he will be working with a commodities and derivative markets regulator that has been experiencing several disruptions since the start of the year. Quintenz, who served as a CFTC commissioner from August… Read More >>
SEC & CFTC Prioritize Crypto Regs Creation
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are following up on their recent announcements to move quickly on cryptocurrency regulation just as industry providers are getting on the crypto train. The SEC is offering more details about the mission of its special Crypto Task Force and the CFTC will be… Read More >>
EDI Expands Investment Fund Reference Services
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global securities data, has added 22 countries to its investment fund reference data service coverage to meet the needs of wealth management companies with investment funds in their client portfolios that need reference and corporate data for updates, officials say. The additional coverage is available now. “We have… Read More >>
BayernLB to Use Bloomberg’s B-PIPE & BVAL
Bayerische Landesbank, a.k.a BayernLB, a specialized bank serving the Bavarian and German economies, will be using Bloomberg’s real-time market data feed B-PIPE and evaluated pricing service BVAL. The implementation “complements Bloomberg’s recent collaboration with BayernLB’s asset management arm, BayernInvest, which adopted Bloomberg Buy-Side Solutions spanning AIM, PORT Enterprise, and MARS Collateral Management’s integrated offerings to… Read More >>
Morgan Stanley Uses Bloomberg’s US Treasury Dealer Algos
Morgan Stanley and “a leading buy-side firm” have completed a U.S. Treasury trade using Bloomberg’s U.S. Treasury (UST) Dealer Algos, which offer buy-side clients access “to wide pools of liquidity usually available only on dealer-to-dealer trading platforms,” officials say. Beyond Morgan Stanley, the new UST Dealer Algos are supported by Citi, JPMorgan, and RBC Capital… Read More >>
