Morningstar Ups Ownership of ESG Research Firm Morningstar, Inc., an investment research provider, reports an agreement to acquire Sustainalytics, a provider of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and research. Morningstar also points out that it currently has an approximately 40 percent ownership stake in Sustainalytics, first acquired in 2017, and that, under the terms… Read More >>
CFTC’s Division of Enforcement Issues First Manual
Manual Brings New Transparency to DOE In a first for the CFTC, the regulator’s Division of Enforcement (DOE) is publishing and distributing an Enforcement Manual that provides an overview of the CFTC and DOE. The manual is also intended to establish general policies and procedures to guide the work of DOE staff in “detecting, investigating,… Read More >>
Credit Suisse Asset Management Group Sells Off Actiance Investment
Sale is Key to the Merging of Actiance and Smarsh Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors group reported on Nov. 30 that it has exited its investment in Actiance, a communications and social media compliance, archiving, and analytics vendor, via a sale to K1 Investment Management, a U.S. private equity firm that invests in enterprise… Read More >>
DTCC Fills Key Equity Clearing Post
DTCC Hires from Options Clearing Corp. The DTCC, a post-trade market infrastructure services provider, reports that Michael McClain has joined as a managing director and general manager of equity clearing. McClain will be responsible for heading the “day-to-day equity clearing business operations and strategic initiatives,” and will report to Murray Pozmanter, managing director and head… Read More >>
Goldman Sachs Vet Joins ICAP
ICAP Fills Post for Post-Trade Development Unit Interdealer broker and post-trade vendor ICAP reports that it has appointed Stuart Connolly head of client product development for its post-trade risk and information (PTRI) division. Connolly will report to Jenny Knott, PTRI CEO, and will be based in London. His mandate is to “work with each of… Read More >>
ICAP to Offer Regulatory Reporting via Abide Acquisition
ICAP, an interdealer broker and post-trade IT vendor, is acquiring a regulatory reporting specialist, Abide Financial, in order to integrate Abide’s wares into ICAP’s Post Trade Risk and Information (PTRI) offerings, targeting the growing demand among trading firms for solutions to help them comply with multiple regulatory authorities, officials say. ICAP’s investment arm for emerging… Read More >>
OpenGamma Gets $13.3M to Push Risk Analytics Standards
A vendor offering open source risk analytics for derivatives, OpenGamma reports that it has raised $13.3 million in total from venture capital firm Accel, ICAP’s Euclid Opportunities investment arm, and Cristóbal Conde, the former president and CEO of SunGard, all in a bid to accelerate plans to become the maker of benchmark industry-standard risk analytics…. Read More >>
BNY, Deutsche Bank, ICAP Back UBS Digital Cash Push
BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, ICAP and Santander are throwing their support behind the Utility Settlement Coin (USC) concept from UBS and newcomer Clearmatics Technologies that could lead to digital cash-based payment and settlement operations that exploit distributed ledger technology (DLT). The USC effort is intended to result in “an asset-backed digital cash instrument implemented on… Read More >>
EBS BrokerTec Taps Tradeweb for Top Americas Post
Head of BrokerTec Direct Americas Is Appointed EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s electronic fixed income and foreign exchange business, reports that Nicole Shumpert, senior fixed income professional from Tradeweb, has been named head of its BrokerTec Direct, Americas, service. BrokerTec Direct “leverages the EBS Direct model to provide customers with a new mechanism for trading fixed income,”… Read More >>
Tullett Prebon to Buy Creditex Voice Brokerage
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is selling the hybrid, U.S. voice-broking business operations of Creditex to London-based interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, which recently agreed to acquire similar businesses from competitor ICAP. Officials at ICE say they will retain the electronically traded markets and systems, post-trade connectivity platforms and intellectual property… Read More >>
