Mirae Asset Securities (USA), the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Mirae Asset Financial Group, is entering the hedge fund investment allocation space and will be using the Securities360 solution from FIS as it attains self-clearing status. Previously, the firm introduced accounts through a correspondent clearing firm for about two decades and had no need for… Read More >>
FRTB Projects Could Spur Ops and IT Overhauls
(Editor’s note: The Basel Committee has set forth what has become known as “the fundamental review of trading book [FRTB] capital requirements.” The new regulation is changing the capital framework for banks and is an attempt to strengthen capital standards for market risks, according to the backers of FTRB. Subsequently, financial services firms have been… Read More >>
Broker Deploys Torstone’s Back-Office System in Four Months
U.K. Firm Wants Cost-Effective, Scalable Back Office Liberum, a pan-European investment bank, signed a multi-year deal with Torstone Technology in July to deploy the vendor’s Inferno back-office system and went live earlier this month with the new system, achieving a four-month implementation, according to Liberum and vendor officials. An employee-owned firm, Liberum offers pan-European equity… Read More >>
Vestmark Launches Robo Advice Platform
Vestmark Targets Brokers, RIAs, Asset Managers & Banks Wealth management technology vendor Vestmark is launching a hybrid “robo service” that blends human and automated advice delivery via robo-advice platform. The VestmarkONE Robo Solution has been designed to help advisors who need digital support via a turnkey offering. The vendor is targeting broker/dealers, registered investment advisors… Read More >>
Russell Investments to Use SS&C for IBOR Push
Asset manager Russell Investments will be using proprietary, integrated systems from SS&C Technologies as the middle office core for an investment book of record (IBOR) that will help the firm’s portfolio managers trading in global markets. The firm, which has $244 billion in assets under management, is expanding its IT support for investment accounting, performance… Read More >>
Agency-Broker Launches Portal for Order Inspection
Dash Financial Debuts a Transparency Portal An agency broker-dealer, Dash Financial has launched DROP360, a real-time, drop-copy facility that provides transparency into “order routing behavior, execution behavior, costs and performance” for options and equities, and relays the information in a machine readable format that uses the FIX electronic trading protocol. Essentially, the DROP360 service is… Read More >>
FIX to Get Extensions for MiFID II Compliance
The FIX protocol is being modified to provide mappings to the ISO 20022 data standard required for trade reporting to European authorities, and a forthcoming FIX version will support Market Model Typology (MMT) 3.0, intended to facilitate MiFID II compliance, according to the FIX Trading Community standards body. MiFID II transaction reporting extends the reporting… 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 >>
ATS Firm Broadens Surveillance via Enterprise-Wide Platform
A broker-dealer/alternative trading system, PDQ ATS, has deployed the Validus run-time enterprise risk and compliance platform from Eventus Systems in order to get a broader view of risk exposure, say officials at the firm and the vendor. From its headquarters in Glenview, Ill., PDQ ATS provides liquidity aggregation for market participants via an auction process,… Read More >>
Virtus Partners Deploys Misys Loan Platform
Virtus Partners, a provider of fixed-income collateral administrative services, has implemented the Misys FusionBanking Loan IQ platform in response to the demand for third-party agency services as non-bank lenders are acting as loan originators and as financial services firms move to lower operational costs. By implementing FusionBanking Loan IQ, officials at Virtus say they can… Read More >>
