The SEC mostly taketh when it comes to data, regulatory forms, and ongoing reports. But every once in a while the regulator giveth as far as key data about trillions of dollars flowing through the securities industry. In particular, SEC staff has just released a new report, “Registered Fund Statistics,” that is based on “aggregated… Read More >>
Your AI Team Should Be Cross Functional: Q&A
(Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are poised to cause major overhauls in the financial services industry. Securities operations teams across the globe are laying the groundwork to embrace this inevitable disruption. To provide our readers with insight on how to take the first steps, FTF News reached out to Rashed Haq, the… Read More >>
Mining the Metadata of Cloud-Based Voice Trading
(Editor’s note: Germán Soto Sanchez, president of Cloud9 Technologies, answers questions from FTF News about the metadata and operational benefits that can be derived from software-based voice trading that is supported via cloud computing. Sanchez also reviews the limits of hardware-based trading turrets that in the past have dominated trading desks relying on phone systems… Read More >>
FRTB Deadlines Coming Faster Than You Think: Q&A
(Based in Paris, Murex serves financial services firms via solutions for securities trading, treasury markets, risk management, and post-trade operations. A majority of the voters in the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition selected Murex’s MX.3 as the Software Solution of the Year for 2107. We got time with Frank Heanue, who is head of… Read More >>
Elixirr & Kaizen Partner to Fix Reporting Errors
Management consultant Elixirr and regulatory support vendor Kaizen Reporting are partnering to provide financial services firms with comprehensive remediation capabilities to identify reporting problems, fix the root causes of them, and then resubmit the correct data. Both companies are combining their offerings to facilitate end-to-end support to help securities trading firms tackle a growing list… Read More >>
Q&A: Ops Cost-Cutting to Survive Market Turmoil
(Editor’s note: Volatile global markets are becoming the norm for 2018 and as yet there isn’t a consensus on the underlying reasons. Many industry observers are predicting that there will be more corrections to come as inflation and interest rate increases worry investors. Whatever the actual causes, there have been moments of turbulence that are… Read More >>
Q&A: Upgrade IT Systems Despite Furious Market Correction
(Editor’s note: Global financial markets have been rising and falling dramatically over the past two weeks and many industry observers say that markets are going through a correction/selloff. Ultimately, volatility returned to markets and many analysts say that it may become the new normal. “We suspect that the volatility will likely continue in both directions… Read More >>
