Necessity is still the mother of invention especially when it comes to applying artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning (ML) to the investigation of trade breaks as Gresham Technologies has learned. By using A.I. & ML to investigate and then learn from trade breaks, a Gresham client facing repetitive trade breaks has had a 66… Read More >>
The Ops-A.I. Revolution Has Begun: SS&C’s Bill Stone
From Bill Stone’s perspective as chairman and CEO of SS&C Technologies, the fairly recent advances that SS&C has made into the Abu Dhabi market and with artificial intelligence (A.I.) are examples of the same thing — the company is breaking new ground literally and figuratively in the highly competitive world of post-trade systems, software, services,… Read More >>
Can A.I. Advance Automation in Commodities Trading?
Can technologies based upon artificial intelligence (A.I.) help squeeze out the manual processes that can clog the plumbing of commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions? Quor Group, a provider of CTRM solutions, and ClearDox LLC, a commodities solutions provider that leverages A.I., think it can be done and have begun a collaboration. They are… Read More >>
Five Arrows to Acquire Rimes from EQT
Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co., is slated to acquire enterprise data management (EDM) provider Rimes via an agreement that allows private equity firm EQT, together with its shareholders, to sell Rimes to Five Arrows, officials say. In February 2020, EQT invested in Rimes as a way to help Rimes “expand… Read More >>
France Active Scraps Spreadsheets & Manual Ops via Clearwater
French venture capital firm France Active has moved away from spreadsheets and manual processes and will automate its investment accounting operations as well as centralize its accounting book of record via a Clearwater Analytics platform. Based in Montreuil, France, France Active, founded in 1988, is a nonprofit that invests in “socially committed” French companies such… Read More >>
Beeks & STT Team Up for Clearing & Settlement Service
Financial cloud solutions provider Beeks Financial Cloud Group is partnering with trading and clearing provider Securities & Trading Technology (STT) to offer a managed service that incorporates clearing, settlement, trade execution, risk management, and surveillance, officials say. The timing was the driving factor for the collaboration between STT and Berks Group as they want to… Read More >>
Perennial Partners Taps SS&C for Transfer Agency Services
Perennial Partners will be deploying a transfer agency and investor servicing system, the Global Investor and Distribution Solutions (GIDS) from SS&C Technologies, to streamline unit registry/call center services across its financial product lines, according to the Australian asset manager. “SS&C’s Managed Fund Administration unit will provide a full range of services to Perennial’s investors across… Read More >>
Swift Explores CBDC Links to FX, Tokens & Liquidity
The global Swift financial messaging cooperative has completed a collaborative “sandbox experiment” testing the interoperability of an interlinking solution for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) intended to “simplify and speed up trade flows, unlock growth in tokenized securities markets, and enable efficient FX settlement,” officials say. CBDCs are the digital currencies likely to be issued… Read More >>
ESMA Survey Sheds Little Light on T+1 Impacts
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has received inconclusive responses to key issues around costs, operational impact, and the effect on market liquidity of shortening the settlement cycle in the European Union (E.U.). The E.U.’s regulatory body overseeing financial markets deferred drawing conclusions on many aspects, opting instead to glean insights from North America’s… Read More >>
Corporate Actions Pilot Takes Aim at Manual Processes
(Editor’s Note: In early March, DTCC officials conducted a two-phased pilot program to bring more automation to corporate actions (CA) processing. The effort addresses decades-long asset services challenges around the sourcing of corporate actions announcements via streamlining interactions across the agent and issuer community through standards and automation. The ultimate goal is to eliminate manual… Read More >>
