iCapital, a platform provider for alternative investment markets, is hoping to expand its data management and reporting capabilities for the wealth management, family office, endowment, and foundation segment markets via its recently announced acquisition of Mirador, officials say. Mirador offers investment data aggregation, financial reporting services, middle office support, and IT solutions and products to… Read More >>
FTF Unveils the 2024 FTF Awards Nominees!
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has unveiled the nominations for the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition, and the list of nominees reflects the dynamics of an industry facing digital transitions, a major effort to shorten settlement, and a final push to eliminate manual processes. The winners of the FTF Awards competition are chosen by… Read More >>
T+1 Could Spur Leaks About Sec Lending Intentions
Unease persists in the securities-lending industry as the transition to T+1 continues, driven by concerns over heightened information leakage risks and the necessity for substantial technological upgrades Earlier this month, Bloomberg Intelligence released research indicating that accelerating settlement cycles and the subsequent squeeze of securities borrow/lend processes could leave asset owners footing an eye-watering $24… Read More >>
Johnson Financial Group Taps the Cloud for IR Swaps
Johnson Financial Group has installed a risk management system for interest rate derivatives based upon a cloud-based platform from provider Derivative Path that is intended to enhance Johnson’s financial services offerings and be a foundation for related services to come. Based in Racine, Wisconsin, the privately owned Johnson Financial Group consists of subsidiaries Johnson Bank… Read More >>
Partnership Links SIX’s Connexor to D7 Platform
SIX, a Swiss financial markets data provider and exchanges company, is partnering with Clearstream to become the reference data processor for the instruments supported by the D7 digital post-trade platform from Deutsche Börse. The partnership will yield a link from SIX’s Connexor platform for reference data distribution to D7, facilitating a one-stop shop for international… Read More >>
NICE Actimize Applies Generative A.I. to New Solutions
NICE Actimize, a provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions, has embraced generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) for three new solutions that target financial crime in ways intended to help overwhelmed financial crime and fraud teams at financial services firms, officials say. Generative A.I. are algorithms “that can be used to create new content, including… 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 >>
How to Survive the Recordkeeping Crackdown
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) December 2021 announcement that J.P. Morgan Securities LLC had been fined $125 million for allegedly violating the agency’s recordkeeping rules amounted to a shot heard up and down Wall Street. The market regulator made clear that it took breaches of recordkeeping regulations seriously, and that the J.P. Morgan penalty… Read More >>
FinTech Brief: CAIS Expands Collaboration with Pershing
CAIS, an alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, has expanded its relationship with the Pershing clearing, custody, and wealth management services division of BNY Mellon. The expansion was announced late last month “after the launch of CAIS Solutions, a new SaaS [Software as a Service] platform,” which applies CAIS technology to centralize and streamline… Read More >>
A Climate Data Platform Prototype Debuts at COP28
Inadvertently, I have stumbled upon another climate-related bit of news. This time it’s about the Net-Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU), described as “a unified, global, open climate data repository” whose information can be used by many sectors including financial services. A variety of securities firms would welcome free, reliable data about the climate change efforts… Read More >>
