An influential U.K.-based task force focused on post-trade operations has issued a report calling for major changes in three “core areas:” non-economic trade data, client onboarding, and uncleared margin management. In addition, a key U.K. authority, the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Markets Standards Board (FMSB), has promised to act on the recommendations. The FMSB… Read More >>
Firms Suffer via Ops Expenses Blind Spot: Report
Lackluster investment in post-trade processes has caused an information blackout that prevents financial services firms from getting an enterprise-wide view of the money that has been spent on brokerage, custodian, exchange, and clearing services, and this weakness is taking a toll on profits, according to a new report from Meritsoft, a post-trade process automation services… Read More >>
DTCC Repository Fined for Alleged Data Breaches
The London-based DTCC Derivatives Repository Plc (DDRL), a suite of post-trade, record-keeping, and reporting services, has been fined by E.U. regulator European Securities and Markets Authority for seven alleged infringements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation legislation governing data confidentiality, data integrity, and direct and immediate data access. The total fine is €408,000, or approximately… Read More >>
Lockdown Hit Dealers Harder Than Buy Side: Survey
Sell-side firms had a tougher time with post-trade operations during the depths of the pandemic-induced lockdown. But buy-side firms had their Ops woes too, according to a new report from the DTCC, the major post-trade infrastructure services and systems provider for the securities industry. Not surprisingly, the report finds that “cash fixed income and cash… Read More >>
Electra’s Unified API Service Targets the Buy Side
Electra Information Systems, a maker of reconciliation and other post-trade solutions, is launching a unified application programming interface (API) service for new and existing customers to help them ease into complex API strategies facilitating data access among applications and systems. The Electra unified API is intended as a single connection to help IT staffs at… Read More >>
Deutsche Bank Slates Single-Dealer Platform for U.S.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. will be using the market technology infrastructure offerings of Nasdaq to build its forthcoming, U.S.-based single-dealer platform, which Nasdaq will host, officials say. The single-dealer platform (SDP) usually consists of software applied by an investment bank to capital markets “to deliver trading and associated services via the web,” according to Wikipedia…. Read More >>
Tullett Prebon-ICAP Deal to Impact Post-Trade Services
Interdealer broker ICAP is selling its brokering business and more to Tullett Prebon in an arrangement that both companies say will lead to $91 million in savings and streamlined support for post-trade services, transaction processing and trading data offerings. The move is seen as a response to challenging times for interdealer brokers who face a… Read More >>
Former CFTC Commissioner Wetjen Joins the DTCC
Mark P. Wetjen, former commissioner and one-time acting chairman for the CFTC, is joining post-trade services and systems provider DTCC as a managing director to oversee global public policy functions and related business and legal activities, say DTCC officials. Wetjen resigned from the commission, effective August 28, and will begin his time with the DTCC… Read More >>
ICAP Names CEO for Post-Trade Services
Interdealer-broker and post-trade IT vendor ICAP has appointed Jenny Knott as its new CEO of post-trade risk and information services, officials say. Knott joins from the African financial services group at Standard Bank Group, where she was CEO of Standard Bank Plc and CIB International, and most recently served as strategic advisor to the group… Read More >>
MarketAxxess Picks COO for European Business
MarketAxess, which operates an electronic trading platform and provides market data and post-trade services, has hired Scott Eaton to be the new chief operating officer (COO) of MarketAxxess Europe and Trax, its market data subsidiary. In his new role Eaton will oversee business operations for Europe, and he will be focused on “further growing the… Read More >>
