Custodian bank Northern Trust has been collaborating with vendor FIS to offer private equity fund administration clients better reporting and analytical tools that will bring more transparency to fund operations, facilitate on-demand data and deliver customized views of portfolio information. The collaboration is built upon FIS’s Data Exchange Reporting and Analytics (DX R&A) solution, officials… Read More >>
Chevy Chase Trust Jumps to FIS Solutions
Chevy Chase Trust, a privately held trust and investment management firm, will be replacing incumbent IT systems with a unified wealth management technology platform and services from FIS, in an effort to provide more personalized services to its clients. The multi-year agreement will provide Chevy Chase Trust with a suite of technology and operations services… Read More >>
Wedbush Futures Embraces Managed Services for Derivatives Ops
Wedbush Futures, a non-bank, U.S. futures commission merchant (FCM), is embracing the managed services mode of the FIS middle- and back-office software that it’s already using for post-trade processing, a move that the firm hopes will yield operational efficiencies, streamline regulatory compliance and application upgrades, and free up resources for growing the business and servicing… Read More >>
Report Finds Firms Falling Behind the Tech Curve
Although there has been a great deal written about how financial service firms are embracing fintech to meet the many regulatory challenges to come, only around 25 percent of senior executives at global institutions say they have the technology capability to support their firms’ growth ambitions, according to a new report, “The Hunt for Growth,”… Read More >>
Brexit Roundup: A Leave Vote is Bad for the U.S.
(Editor’s note: As the U.K. votes today on whether or not to stay with the E.U., FTF News decided to pull together some predictions and reactions from this side of the pond. All of the quoted material is available online for further investigation.) SIFMA Roundtable Predicts U.K. to Stay In a statement dated June 14,… Read More >>
Credit Suisse to Leverage FIS Utility
Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse will be outsourcing its post-trade futures and cleared over-the-counter derivatives operations and technology to banking and payments technology vendor FIS in order to leverage the cost savings of a utility model, bank officials say. The Derivatives Utility from FIS targets market participants “including futures commission merchants (FCMs)” that want cost-efficient… Read More >>
FTF Awards Spotlights Ops Providers and Individuals
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF), owner of FTF News, has just announced the winners of the 2016 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, noting that it had a record-breaking response with approximately 27,000 votes cast for 25 awards categories. Except for the Editor’s Choice award, the nominees and ultimate winners of the awards are selected by FTF… Read More >>
Politics Can Kill a Move to the Utility Model
Internal political battles at securities firms can prevent them from considering cost-effective utility models for key operations, say officials at financial services consultancy Capco, which just released a global survey of banking executives’ reactions to utilities. Overall, Capco officials say that the survey finds that firms are “failing to take full advantage of the utilities… Read More >>
FIS Gets a Catapult via SunGard Acquisition
Banking and payments technology vendor FIS has completed its $9.3 billion acquisition of SunGard, marking a new chapter for the technology and services giant with many operations offerings for securities firms. The acquisition “uniquely positions [FIS] to offer a broad range of retail, enterprise and wholesale banking and payments capabilities that will further empower the… Read More >>
FIS CEO: Get Ready for ‘Massive Disruption’
(Editor’s note: This is the second part (click here for part I) of a FTF News Q&A with Gary Norcross, president and CEO of banking and payments technology provider Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), which is acquiring financial products and services giant SunGard for $9.1 billion. In this installment, Norcross addresses the importance of disruptive… Read More >>
