Nordea Bank, a large financial services group in Northern Europe, has been working with post-trade services provider Omgeo and investment management software vendor SimCorp to automate its repurchase agreement (repo) post-trade matching process, and recently matched its first live repo trade. The Stockholm-based bank recently processed a repo instrument between itself and Swedish administrative services… Read More >>
Could FIX Disrupt Post-Trade Processing?
Buy-side firms and vendors in the U.S. are exploring extensions of the FIX protocol to post-trade processes. But stretching FIX in this way will stir up battles over standard and proprietary protocols and whether post-trade processing should be done locally among firms or through a centralized matching system. The outcome of these battles may determine… Read More >>