With alternative investment firms in mind, officials say SS&C Technologies is offering a variety of new features and functions via updated software-as-a-service (Saas) releases of the Geneva, Eclipse, and OEMS products and services platforms. “We tailor our releases to the global marketplace. The recent advancements in our alternatives solutions illustrate our commitment to them to… Read More >>
FlexTrade Offers Direct Link to Coinbase Prime
FlexTrade Systems, a maker of multi-asset execution and order management systems, is now able to offer a direct integration with Coinbase Prime, an institutional prime broker platform for digital and crypto assets, officials say. Coinbase Prime offers its institutional prime brokerage for crypto assets whose integrated platform supports the entire transaction lifecycle, officials say. Coinbase… Read More >>
Time to Buy Not Build an OMS?
(Global banks and other sell-side firms face “a technological fork in the road” when it comes to order management systems (OMSes), according to a recent report, “The Future State of Global OMS,” from market research firm Datos Insights. “Sell-side firms … will need to reevaluate the value proposition of their existing OMS architecture and determine… Read More >>
Evidology Systems Applies A.I. to Compliance & Other News
QED Platform Uses A.I. for Deeper Analysis Regulatory technology provider Evidology Systems reports that the company is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to implement extensions of its core QED (Quality and Evidence Driven) platform to enable scenario analysis of its underlying model “inside third-party applications and workflows.” The QED platform is a “unique combination of… Read More >>
Broadridge’s NYFIX Links to Linedata OMS & Other News
Broadridge Expands Partnership with Linedata The NYFIX Matching solution from Broadridge Financial Solutions will be integrated with the Longview order management system (OMS) from Linedata to provide more automation for NYFIX’s middle- and back-office functions, officials say. To make more automation possible, Broadridge expanded its partnership with Linedata, a provider of asset management and credit… Read More >>
SEC Moves Comment Deadlines on Key Rules & Other News
Public Gets More Time to Respond to SEC Proposals Bowing to industry requests for more time, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is extending the public comment period for three new rules in the proposal stage. Industry participants were given more time to comment upon the proposed rule “to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures… Read More >>
FINRA Alleges DriveWealth Broke Regulation SHO Rules
FINRA, the self-regulatory organization for broker-dealers, has censured and fined DriveWealth Institutional LLC, formerly known as Cuttone & Co., $100,000 for alleged violations of Regulation SHO rules. Last February, DriveWealth Holdings, Inc. acquired Cuttone & Co. and renamed it to DriveWealth Institutional. The renamed firm “specializes in execution services for institutional and broker-dealer clients. The… Read More >>
Dash Overhauls Its OMS & Other FinTech News
OMS Update Also Links to Dash ATS Dash Financial Technologies, an options technology and execution vendor, is launching a redesigned version of its order management system (OMS) for options trading that provides access to all routing and algorithmic execution tools such as the Sensor suite, the Dash Alternative Trading System (ATS), and an integrated volatility… Read More >>
Buy-Side Traders Are Surviving Electronic Trading
Buy-side traders may have one reason to breathe a little easier amid the pandemic-induced downturn and related market volatility. State-of-the-art, integrated, electronic transaction platforms are not likely to replace humans on the trading desks any time soon, according to researchers at market research firm Greenwich Associates. “The average number of traders on buy-side trading desks… Read More >>
Firm Launches Trading System Despite Pandemic
An Australian specialist fund manager, Atlas Infrastructure, went live with Indata’s Architect AI OMS and portfolio management solution this month despite the disruptions cause by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the vendor’s help, completed a deployment remotely. The travel restrictions caused by the pandemic meant that Indata worked with Atlas “completely on a remote basis… Read More >>
