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 >>
STP Investment Services Acquires WealthSite & Other News
STP to Add WealthSite’s Accounting Engine STP Investment Services, an investment-operations service provider, reports the acquisition of WealthSite. WealthSite is a company that “provides a customized accounting, portfolio management, reporting and analytics platform to single and multi-family offices, traditional wealth advisory firms and money managers serving ultra-high-net-worth (UNHW) clients,” STP officials say in a prepared… Read More >>
Turkish Bank Goes Live with Murex System & Other News
Anadolubank Deploys MXGO Solution Turkish bank Anadolubank has gone live with a treasury and trading platform from vendor Murex to build a front-to-middle-office platform across multiple asset classes including FX, FXD, money markets, fixed income, interest rate differential (IRD) and SecFin that will help the bank expand its treasury and capital markets businesses. Anadolubank is… Read More >>
TP ICAP Approved for Crypto-Asset Exchange Services
Interdealer broker TP ICAP has won regulatory approval to be a provider of crypto-asset exchange services via its wholesale marketplace for spot crypto-assets, dubbed Fusion Digital Assets. This is a bid to provide “a credible infrastructure” for institutions thinking about allocating capital to wholesale digital asset markets, officials say. The approval comes at a time… Read More >>
BNY Mellon & Baton Bring DLT to Collateral & Other News
BNY Mellon & Baton Systems Form Partnership Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is at the heart of a new post-trade, collateral management collaboration between BNY Mellon and Baton Systems. The joint offering links Baton’s central clearing counterparty (CCP) network with BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Continuous Portfolio Optimization (ECPO) service in an effort to help mutual clients improve… Read More >>
