Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., an investment bank, has been fined $3.6 million by FINRA, a regulatory authority for the financial services industry, for allegedly having an inadequate supervisory system in place to detect potentially unsuitable unit investment trust (UIT) rollovers, and also for failing to provide customers with accurate information so they can make… Read More >>
DTCC Tests DLT’s Usage for Post-Trade Ops
Post-trade infrastructure provider the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. has launched two experiments — dubbed Project Ion and Project Whitney — that are collaborative industry efforts to investigate how distributed ledger technology (DLT) might strengthen post-trade processes such as the elimination of manual processes in the private markets, and new securities settlement via public markets,… Read More >>
Firms Need Collaboration to Keep Up: Q&A
(In the past, some financial services firms have been known to follow the mantra of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” notes Mark Bolton, head of international sales for Gresham Technologies. Yet the financial technology landscape has been changing fast and firms will have to keep up or risk having “solutions that are unable… 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 >>
SmartStream Embraces AI Algorithms for Recs
Timed for the SWIFT Sibos exposition and conference this week in London, SmartStream Technologies has launched a cloud-based offering, SmartStream Air, that the vendor says reconciles complex sets of data in seconds with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The new offering, developed via the SmartStream Innovation Lab, can “auto-configure reconciliations of any data… Read More >>
Electra Reconciliation Update Will Use ML: Q&A
(Electra Information Systems, Inc., a provider of reconciliation and other post-trade solutions, won the 2019 FTF News Technology Innovation award for Best Reconciliation Solution, its fourth consecutive win in this category. FTF News got time with Todd Sloan, senior vice president, business development and product management for Electra. Sloan joined Electra in 2003 as a… Read More >>
Calypso & AI Vendor Target Back Office Ops
Calypso Partners With 2021.AI Financial software vendor Calypso Technology is partnering with an artificial intelligence IT platform provider, 2021.AI, to optimize back-office processes for Calypso’s global client base, officials say. The two vendors will focus on delivering state-of-the-art AI models and Calypso will facilitate access to 2021.AI’s Grace AI platform, officials say. “By partnering with… Read More >>
CloudMargin Hires Former Group CEO of TriOptima
CloudMargin Appoints Stuart Connolly as Next CEO A former Group CEO of TriOptima Stuart Connolly has been named as the new CEO of CloudMargin, a London-based vendor of cloud-based collateral and margin management solutions, replacing Steve Husk, who left CloudMargin. The CloudMargin board of directors approved Connolly’s appointment and he has taken on the role,… Read More >>
World Bank Signs Licensing Agreement with SimCorp
World Bank Deployment to Cover Middle and Back Offices SimCorp, which provides investment management products and services to the financial services industry, reports that the World Bank has licensed SimCorp Dimension, the vendor’s investment management system. The agreement was signed in late 2018, per SimCorp. Under the agreement, the World Bank has licensed SimCorp’s “middle… Read More >>
U.K. Specialist Firm Embraces ‘Recs as a Service’
Genesis Investment Management Deploys Watson Wheatley Service London-based Genesis Investment Management, a specialist investment management firm, is the first official customer of reconciliation vendor Watson Wheatley’s “reconciliation as a service” offering, according to officials at the firm and the vendor. The new offering from Watson Wheatley leverages the audit controls and automation of the iRecs… Read More >>
