When the bragging goes quiet on Wall Street, you know the serious talk has begun. This has been the case with blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT). The hype evaporated pretty fast when the securities industry began to seriously test the glibly christened savior of disruptive technologies. Banks, exchanges, hedge funds, vendors, and everything else in between… Read More >>
Iress Completes QuantHouse Integration via Team Launch
New Iress Team to Drive Combined Solutions Financial technology provider Iress has completed its integration of the offerings of QuantHouse — acquired two years ago — with the launch of the Iress API Data and Trading Solutions team, which will drive the sales and support for a suite of trading data solutions and managed services,… Read More >>
Credit Suisse to Exit Prime Services Business
Credit Suisse officials shortly after they announced an exit from the prime services business revealed that they have signed a referral agreement with BNP Paribas that will enable the French banking giant to provide support for the Swiss bank’s prime services and derivatives clearing customers. The move was made to facilitate the migration of clients… Read More >>
Wall Street Mulls Key Pandemic Post-Trade Lessons
Some observers on Wall Street are saying that the global pandemic may be heading toward an end phase. I hesitate to agree with that prediction given the many unexpected riptides that the potentially fatal COVID-19 virus has imposed upon the world since its onset in 2020 (or even sooner). So, while we hope that the… Read More >>
Yellen & Others Want Congress to Regulate Stablecoins
A Biden Working Group Says Stablecoins Are Risky Stablecoins lack good oversight, making them risky for users and financial markets, says Janet L. Yellen, secretary of the U.S. Treasury, in a prepared statement. Yellen’s comments follow the release of a report from the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG), which is recommending that Congress… Read More >>
SEI Acquires Finomial
Finomial Technology to Be Added to SEI Platforms SEI reports the acquisition of Finomial, which it characterizes as an “investor lifecycle management firm offering cloud-native financial technology. The technology is expected to be added to SEI’s existing investor-focused platforms to further enhance automation and digitization capabilities, as well as reporting and transparency.” SEI’s current… Read More >>
ICE Sells Stake in Euroclear for $825M
Silver Lake Buys ICE’s 9.85 Percent Stake American private equity firm Silver Lake likes Euroclear Holding’s growth path and has purchased Intercontinental Exchange’s 9.85 percent stake in Euroclear for €709 million ($824.8 million), officials say. Officials at ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), say the past investment in Euroclear has been… Read More >>
Firms & Providers Disagree About T+1’s Rewards: Survey
Shorter settlement of U.S. equities transactions from trading day plus two days (T+2) to one day (T+1) will happen within the next five years, according to nearly half of the respondents to a global survey and study conducted by Citi Securities Services. But, beyond that point of agreement, the survey results showed that financial market… Read More >>
Northern Trust Uses Algorithms to Find Initial Margin
Northern Trust Develops Offering with Acadia With help from vendor Acadia, Northern Trust launched an automated solution for initial margin (IM) calculation that exploits algorithms to find assets that will help firms meet regulatory obligations, officials say. The solution was developed to help clients meet the September 1 deadline for compliance with the Uncleared Margin… Read More >>
Firms Suffer via Ops Expenses Blind Spot: Report
Lackluster investment in post-trade processes has caused an information blackout that prevents financial services firms from getting an enterprise-wide view of the money that has been spent on brokerage, custodian, exchange, and clearing services, and this weakness is taking a toll on profits, according to a new report from Meritsoft, a post-trade process automation services… Read More >>
