European capital markets firms are navigating a long list of regulatory changes required to enable a smooth transition to a shortened, T+1 settlement cycle, likely in 2027 and in coordination with the UK. The European T+1 Industry Task Force, comprised of 21 trade associations, outlined these regulatory changes in a recent work paper — “High-level… Read More >>
ION Launches Connectivity to FMX Futures Exchange
Trading and operations systems provider ION has launched connectivity to the recently launched FMX Futures Exchange. The connectivity will allow firms to trade via ION’s execution and post-trade product suite, officials say. ION will support transactions via the new futures exchange through ION’s “cleared derivatives front-, middle-, and back-office platforms.” ION’s offerings for cleared derivatives… Read More >>
Trading Technologies Creates a Platform Services Unit
Trading Technologies International (TT) has created a Platform Services business unit from its global product development and services teams to optimize core functions, reduce functional enhancement development times, and speed up service resolution efforts, officials say. Jason Shaffer will assume the new role of chief platform officer and will oversee the newly integrated unit. Vasco… Read More >>
Numerix Overhauls PolyPaths Product Suite
Numerix has made “significant enhancements across the PolyPaths product suite,” including new reporting and client-centric capabilities that represent the next chapter for PolyPaths, known for helping firms make the transition away from the discredited London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). “This update represents a pivotal shift in our approach. Given the prolonged prevalence of LIBOR as… 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 >>
CFTC Asks for Input on A.I. & Derivatives
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) wants input from derivatives industry participants about the ways artificial intelligence (A.I.) might impact them. The regulator’s Divisions of Market Oversight, Clearing and Risk, Market Participants, and Data and the Office of Technology Innovation sent out a request for comment (RFC) “to better inform them on the current and… Read More >>
Nominations Are Open for the 2024 FTF Awards!
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has launched the nomination process for the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition, which recognizes the operational excellence of professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, and industry bodies that had significant achievements in the 2023 calendar year. The winners of the FTF Awards competition are chosen by their peers in… Read More >>
SS&C Buys MFA Business from Iress & Other News
Acquisition to Help SS&C’s Transfer Agent Business   Iress, a trading software and services provider, is selling its managed funds administration (MFA) business to SS&C Technologies, which will use the acquisition to strengthen its position as a transfer agent in Australia, officials say. Iress is based in Melbourne, Australia. “The MFA business [from Iress] is… Read More >>
ISITC Explores Tokenized Commodities & Other News
ISITC & TCC Form Partnership Securities operations standards group ISITC has begun a partnership with the Tokenized Commodities Council (TCC) “to advance the understanding and adoption of digitized real world assets,” officials say. The nonprofit trade association TCC is “dedicated to educating the investment community and wider public about the benefits of and best practices… Read More >>
Carbon Markets Fraud Is On the CFTC’s Radar
Fraud in the burgeoning carbon credit markets is on the radar of the CFTC’s Whistleblower Office in the Division of Enforcement, which recently issued an alert asking the public to report potential Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) violations in this marketplace. The regulator notes that voluntary carbon markets “can support the transition to a low-carbon economy… Read More >>
