LTX Seeks to Leverage AWS Migration An electronic trading platform for corporate bonds LTX has migrated its platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the intention of helping buy-side investors and dealers leverage the scale of AWS cloud services, officials say. The migration is also intended to help clients better optimize data science processes that… Read More >>
Firms Are Looking for T+1 Accelerators: Q&A
(Editor’s note: Last month, the SEC passed a set of amendments and new rules that make possible an industry-wide move from the current trading day plus two (T+2) settlement cycle to the shorter, one-day, T+1 time frame for U.S. equity markets. The SEC also endorsed a compliance date of May 28, 2024, for the start… Read More >>
SEC & CFTC Penalize Options Clearing Corp. for $22M
The Options Clearing Corp. (OCC), regarded as the largest equity derivatives clearing organization in the world, has announced settlements with the SEC and CFTC that add up to $22 million and are based on a self-reported case of shortcomings in meeting internal efforts to lower key operational risks. The cases revolve around the implementation of… Read More >>
QUODD Acquires Xignite and Other News
QUODD to Get 500 Market Data APIs from Xignite QUODD, a cloud-native provider of market data on demand, has acquired Xignite, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of financial market data application programming interfaces (APIs), which will allow QUODD to offer more than 500 market data (APIs), encompassing millions of instruments across all asset classes, officials… Read More >>
Northern Trust Consolidates Firefighter Pension Funds & Other News
300 Pension Funds Rolled into FPIF Northern Trust played a key role in a pension consolidation project that pulled together the assets of 300 firefighter pension funds across Chicago and other parts of Illinois and led to the creation of the Illinois Firefighters’ Pension Investment Fund (FPIF), officials say. The Northern Trust Transition Management team… Read More >>
Corporate Actions Processing Needs Standards & Uniformity: SIFMA
U.S. corporate actions processing needs more standards and that will require more regulation focused on the timing of corporate actions notifications, submissions, disclosers, and supporting activities, according to a new report from industry association SIFMA and consultancy Ernst & Young (EY). Smoother corporate actions processing would also be in line with the securities industry push… Read More >>
DTCC Guide Demystifies T+1 Testing
In the U.S., there have been many serious discussions and efforts to move the securities industry from the trading day plus two (T+2) settlement cycle to T+1. In addition, the regulators, standards groups, and industry associations are mulling the changes that must be made to facilitate the shift to T+1. But, at some point, the… Read More >>
Nominations Are Open for the 2023 FTF Awards!
We are thrilled to launch the nomination process for the 2023 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards — an industry-wide competition now in its 13th year — presented by Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) and the FTF News service. In addition to our classic securities operations and related categories, we have four new categories that reflect industry… Read More >>
The Post-Trade Talent Crisis Is Real: Q&A
(Editor’s note: Post-trade teams at financial services firms have to take on new asset classes, regulations, data quality controls, and other requirements while also trying to attract and retain new talent, says Julian Trostinsky, global director of customer success for Gresham Technologies, in this Q&A for FTF News. A provider of real-time processes, procedures, and… Read More >>
UBS Australia Deploys Syn~Ops Suite & Other News
FNZ Scores Sixth Win in Australia UBS Australia and vendor FNZ report that the bank has deployed the Syn~Ops post-trade securities processing product suite across multiple asset classes in markets around the globe — the sixth Australian firm to migrate to Syn~Ops. The FNZ’s Syn~ product suite offers “real-time trade and settlements processing capabilities at… Read More >>
