Goswell to Be Honored on March 19 ISITC is honoring industry veteran Steve Goswell, currently vice president of Bank of the West, with the ISITC Standard of Excellence Award at the industry standards group’s 24th Annual Securities Operations Summit in Boston next week. Goswell, who will receive his award on Monday, March 19, was picked… Read More >>
Linedata, DTCC, Smartkarma & TFS Target MiFID II Burdens
(Editor’s note: With the MiFID II deadline about 100 days away, FTF News will be running an ongoing roundup of IT and operations news related to the market reform legislation.) Linedata & the DTCC Extend a 10-Year-Old Relationship With the MiFID II deadline looming, Linedata, a vendor of investment management solutions, has extended a decade-old… Read More >>
Partnership Brings Research on Asian Markets to Nyfix
Smartkarma Teams with ULLINK for Nyfix Smartkarma, a research vendor, and ULLINK, an electronic trading and connectivity solutions provider, are jointly unveiling the Smartkarma research platform via the Nyfix Portal, which targets Nyfix buy-side members looking for research on Asian markets. The effort is a response to the growing need for transparent pricing and unconflicted… Read More >>
Research Analysts Could Be Casualties of Unbundling
As MiFID II draws closer, there has been a spate of reports predicting the dire consequences of unbundling on Europe’s investment banks. The separation of research from execution is expected to lead to hundreds of job losses for research analysts as banks restructure their operating models, according to a new report from consultancy McKinsey. The… Read More >>
China Renaissance Deploys Fidessa Trading Systems
Firm Says Platform Will Help Its Outreach to Investors China Renaissance, an investment banking, securities and investment management firm with headquarters in Beijing and Shanghai, has deployed an Asian trading platform from vendor Fidessa. The new IT backbone will support the expansion of the firm’s equities business across Asia via a centralized order management… Read More >>
