SEB Extends DTCC Agreement via Global Trade Repository Swedish financial group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has decided to use the Global Trade Repository (GTR) services of the DTCC to meet regulatory obligations under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) that are likely to take effect in April 2020. The decision is an extension of SEB’s… Read More >>
DTCC Proposes Post-Trade Framework for Token Platforms
Post-trade systems and services provider DTCC is acknowledging that an emerging disruptive trend — tokenized securities — may soon need a legal and regulatory framework formulated via regulators, trading venues, and the post-trade operations staffs of industry participants. The DTCC is also acknowledging that because of its unique position in the securities operations industry, it… Read More >>
RJO Affiliate Launches OTC Agricultural Structured Products Group
New RJO Group Will Use Proprietary Software Officials at futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) have announced that an affiliate R.J. O’Brien Financial has launched an over-the-counter (OTC) Agricultural Structured Products Group that will target commercial agricultural companies across the globe – a first for RJO. The bilateral OTC initiative will… Read More >>
CEO of Blockchain Vendor Digital Asset Steps Down
Digital Asset Board Chairman to Be Acting CEO Digital Asset, a provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT), reports that Blythe Masters, the company’s CEO since 2015, will step down, for unspecified personal reasons. AG Gangadhar, who joined the company’s board of directors in April of this year, has been named board chairman and will serve… Read More >>
FlexTrade to Apply Corvil’s Analytics to Client Performance
Corvil to Help FlexTrade Users Optimize Executions FlexTrade, a multi-asset execution and order management systems (OMS) vendor, is using Corvil Analytics as a way to improve client performance across FlexTrade’s trading solutions, officials say. The combination will enable FlexTrade to provide clients with Corvil’s machine-time analytics, which allows FlexTrade to identify areas for optimization that… Read More >>
DTCC Service Targets Outdated Communication for Mutual Funds
(Editor’s note: MF Info Xchange, an on-demand, real time, centralized communications service for the mutual fund industry from the DTCC’s Wealth Management Services (WMS) division, is slated to launch Nov. 30. Unveiled in October, the new service from the post-trade market infrastructure provider is intended to “facilitate and centralize the delivery and receipt of time-critical… Read More >>
Brevan Howard Uses AcadiaSoft for IM Management
A Major Buy-Side Firm Embraces AcadiaSoft’s IMEM AcadiaSoft, a provider of risk and collateral management services for the non-cleared derivatives market, reports that Brevan Howard has been added to the users of AcadiaSoft Hub’s Initial Margin Exposure Manager (IMEM). As one of the first buy-side firms that falls within the scope of Phase Three of… Read More >>
Broadridge Jolts Asset Servicing via New Service
Broadridge Launches Asset Servicing Solution at SIBOS Broadridge Financial Solutions is debuting at SIBOS in Sydney Australia a cloud-based processing solution that addresses the challenges with end-to-end asset servicing, officials say. The solution targets the “industry, business and operational challenges” that are part of global asset servicing, say Broadridge officials. Global A-list banks have been… Read More >>
DTCC’s Test Results Show that DLT Can Scale
The DTCC has gotten an answer to a nagging question about distributed ledger technology (DLT): Can it scale? The answer after nearly five months of investigation is that DLT can support average daily trading volumes of 115 million transactions. But more work will be needed before the post-trade infrastructure and services provider knows whether DLT… Read More >>
Major Ops Vendors Endorse SFTR Reporting via GTR
The DTCC has scored the support of major operations IT and service providers as they have agreed to link their Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reporting solutions to the DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) in a bid for a streamlined workflow, officials say. The DTCC has new partnerships with Broadridge Financial Solutions, FIS Global, Murex,… Read More >>
