Two new reports suggest that Alternative Trading Systems (ATSes) are hitting their stride as financial services firms move to private markets, embrace digital securities, and need innovations for their liquidity and investment explorations. An ATS “is a trading venue that is more loosely regulated than an exchange,” according to the Investopedia website. “ATS platforms are… Read More >>
Northern Trust & Hamilton Lane Bolster Private Funds Support
Custodian Northern Trust and global private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane are collaborating to provide Northern Trust Asset Servicing clients a new link to private market analytics and decision support services. Officials say that the collaboration offers a front-to-back office decision-making solution that combines Hamilton Lane’s analytics with Northern Trust’s investment book of record… Read More >>
CloudMargin & Margin Tonic to Launch AANA Service
Collaboration to Target Ongoing UMR Calculations CloudMargin, a collateral and margin management vendor, and Margin Tonic, a service provider for collateral and post-trade operations, are working together to launch “a global Average Aggregated Notional Amount (AANA) calculation service” that trading firms can use to navigate the phases of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) regulatory reforms…. Read More >>
State Street Embraces A.I. for Private Markets Clients
State Street Corp. is hoping to provide private markets clients with faster access to their data, to digitize more of their reporting capabilities, and to enhance operations and document management via a combination of cloud computing and machine learning with the help of vendor Canoe Intelligence. By definition, machine learning “is the concept that a… Read More >>
Investors Shaken by Uncertainty Look to Private Markets
Institutional investor confidence in financial markets is trending downward and investors may shift their allocations from public to private markets, according to two separate reports upon shareowner activity for 2019. The research and advisory firm Corbin Advisors, which focuses on investor relations (IR), reports that investors started the new year harboring high levels of uncertainty… Read More >>