Digital Venture Could End Manual Processes Financial operations systems vendor Finastra is partnering with HCL Technologies and its cloud-native services to offer “treasury management technology in the cloud to smaller banks” based in Northern Europe, North America, India and the Philippines, officials say. “Historically, many banks have been reliant on manual processes for treasury management,… Read More >>
CME Group & IHS Markit to Form Post-Trade JV
Joint Venture to Launch in Summer 2021 CME Group, an operator of derivatives trading venues, and IHS Markit, an information and analytics vendor, are forming a joint venture of post-trade processing and risk mitigation services that will bring together CME Group’s Traiana, TriOptima, and Reset companies with IHS Markit’s MarkitSERV. Traiana, TriOptima and Reset offer… Read More >>
Regulators to Double Down on Financial Crime: Report
When it comes to financial crime, difficult conversations “at the c-suite level” are ahead. That is one major hypothesis of “The State Of Financial Crime 2021,” a report from ComplyAdvantage, a vendor that characterizes itself as a “source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology” intended to “neutralize the risk of money laundering,… Read More >>
Submit Your Nominations for the FTF Awards Now!
The 2021 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards nomination process officially got underway Monday, January 11, and will continue until Feb. 12. Now in its tenth year, the FTF Awards competition is an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, industry associations, financial services firms, and regulators that make significant advances… Read More >>
‘HUB’ Launched to Overhaul Asset Management Ops
Pimco, State Street, Man Group & Others Back HUB A new technology and services provider, dubbed HUB, is being launched by investment manager Pimco, U.K. firm Man Group, custodian State Street, vendors IHS Markit and Microsoft, and consultancy McKinsey & Co. in an effort to offer a cloud-based platform “built by asset managers for… Read More >>
Executive Shuffles at SEC & CFTC
SEC & CFTC Await New Chairpersons The Trump administration has named an acting chairman for the SEC — Elad L. Roisman, an SEC commissioner — as the now-former Chairman Walter Joseph “Jay” Clayton III stepped down at the end of December, six months before his slated exit in June 2021. Clayton, a Trump team appointee,… Read More >>
Are You Ready for Digitalized Repo Ops?
(Last month, JPMorgan revealed that it had successfully conducted “a live, blockchain-based intraday repo transaction” between its broker-dealer and banking entity via an internally developed blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) application. The effort was a test of instantaneous settlement and maturity of the transaction in hours rather than days. The news spurred FTF News to reach… Read More >>
Keep Hope Alive for 2021
It’s next to impossible to predict what the major trends in securities operations will be in 2021. The industry is still focused on what the new world will be after the fatal COVID-19 pandemic is defeated by vaccines and new behaviors. We may be in a holding pattern for at least the first six months… Read More >>
BlueCrest & SEC Resolve Charges of Investor Harm
BlueCrest Capital Management has settled charges via the SEC that it failed its investors by assigning its best human traders to a proprietary hedge fund while its external investors were serviced by an allegedly mediocre algorithm. The U.S. regulator reports that the hedge fund “has agreed to pay $170 million to settle charges arising from… Read More >>
ICE Unit Settles Charges of Failed Pricing Compliance
A securities pricing subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has settled with the SEC over charges that it should have done a better job of vetting certain prices that were based on data from single broker market participants. The wholly-owned subsidiary, ICE Data Pricing and Reference Data (PRD), which is also a registered investment adviser,… Read More >>
