In case you missed it, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted “rule and form amendments” late last month that the SEC says will improve the security of its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, otherwise known as the venerable EDGAR platform. The improvements cover the access and management of filers’ accounts and have been… Read More >>
Deadline Looms for Non-Centrally Cleared Bilateral Repos
A regulatory rule for the collection of data for non-centrally cleared bilateral U.S. repurchase agreements (repos) has a compliance date — December 2 — that is less than three months away. In May, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) without much fanfare adopted a final rule to “improve transparency within the U.S. repurchase agreement (repo)… Read More >>
Meritsoft Targets Dividend Claims Management
A provider of post-trade process automation solutions, Meritsoft has launched an asset-servicing solution that automates coupon and dividend claims operations. The new offering leverages the company’s post-trade platform, which debuted in October 2023, officials say. The new solution automates “the traditionally manual process of matching corporate actions-related claims received through emailed PDF or CSV attachments… Read More >>
Is T+1 in North America a Partial Victory?
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), Investment Company Institute (ICI), and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) released a report early last month declaring victory in the push for a shorter settlement cycle for markets in North America. However, the report fails to address some of the issues that have emerged over… Read More >>
FINOS Enlists Industry in A.I. Governance Framework Launch
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) is calling “groundbreaking” its first draft of the “A.I. Governance Framework” for financial institutions, a vendor-agnostic document that focuses on 15 risks and 15 controls tailored for artificial intelligence systems that use Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs are computational models “capable of language generation or other natural language processing… Read More >>
SEB Adds to Broadridge Deployments
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) is deploying an international post-trade processing solution from Broadridge Financial Solutions in an effort to streamline its securities business across international and domestic markets, officials say. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, SEB is “a long-time user of Broadridge’s front and middle office solutions for order management, trade execution and allocation,” according to… Read More >>
Why Data Governance Matters
While data governance and data quality management concerns are definitely not sexy subjects, securities-trading firms can get into hot water if data-related matters are mismanaged. Take, for example, Citibank, N.A, and the $75 million penalty levied against it by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the related civil penalty of $60,625,620… Read More >>
SteelEye Uses A.I. to Streamline Alert Review Workflows
Trade surveillance provider SteelEye reports that it has made A.I.-based enhancements to Compliance CoPilot via large language models (LLMs) that provide analysis and actionable insights for compliance officers. The added decision-making capability is intended to target wrongdoers that “adopt increasingly sophisticated market manipulation tactics,” officials say. The enhanced Compliance CoPilot “enables analysts to prioritize high-risk… Read More >>
SmartStream Air Update Takes On Spreadsheet Reconciliation
SmartStream says the latest iteration of its Air platform, version 9, takes on inter-system data validation and spreadsheet reconciliation — key capabilities previously too expensive to automate via traditional reconciliation platforms. In fact, SmartStream Air is not traditional as it’s a cloud-native system that is similar to a consumer app because it does not require… Read More >>
T+1 & International Corporate Actions Are at a Crossroads
A trio of European industry associations says agreement has yet to be reached in the approach firms might take to navigate the impact of T+1 on corporate actions processing for multi-listed and multi-traded securities. The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), and the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) recently wrote… Read More >>
