USAA to Shift 60 Staff Members to SS&C GlobeOp SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. reports that it has entered into an “outsourced administration arrangement with USAA Real Estate.” Based in San Antonio, Texas, USAA Real Estate acquires, develops, finances, and manages real estate assets in North America and Europe, and manages approximately $35 billion in net… Read More >>
SS&C Advances Blue Prism & Mainstay Offerings at ‘Deliver’
SS&C Technologies updated many of its mainstay systems and yet advanced key leading-edge offerings at the financial technology provider’s Deliver conference, held in Orlando, Fla., the week of Oct. 3. The event got underway even though Hurricane Ian made a turn toward Orlando prior to the start of the conference. SS&C’s Global Crisis Management (GCM)… Read More >>
Insurance Investment Managers Can Optimize PE Returns: Q&A
(FTF News recently got time with Stan Szczepanik, managing director and head of insurance solutions at SS&C Technologies, and Scott Kurland, managing director at SS&C, who took questions about key trends facing insurance company investment portfolios — complex portfolios, a growing convergence between private equity (PE) and insurance entities, and the ways that artificial intelligence… Read More >>
Northern Trust Grows Digital Consulting Team & Other News
Northern Trust Adds Four to Digital Consulting Group Northern Trust has appointed Benjamin Bobroff to head its new digital solutions consulting group, which is in its asset-servicing business development division. Northern Trust also has made three other senior appointments intended to support the “continued strategic focus and investment in digital innovation,” according to a prepared statement. The three will… Read More >>
SS&C’s Asset Allocator Platform Launches & Other News
SS&C Uses FundHub for New Platform Post-trade systems and software vendor SS&C Technologies reports that it has launched the Asset Allocator Platform, based on FundHub, to provide a holistic view of portfolio holdings, a fund document repository, and performance analysis features. SS&C GlobeOp describes FundHub as “a web-based tool for building and managing alternative investment… Read More >>
Cowen Digital to Deploy SS&C Eze’s OEMS
Reflecting the range of its offerings, SS&C Technologies has news for cutting-edge, digital asset efforts and for established, institutional securities operations. For the cutting edge, Cowen Digital, the new digital asset division of investment bank Cowen, Inc., reports that it will be deploying an order/execution management system (OEMS) from SS&C Eze in support of clients… Read More >>
SS&C Applies A.I. to Fund Administration & Other News Briefs
SS&C GoCentral Uses A.I. & BPR SS&C Technologies has launched a fund administration platform, dubbed GoCentral, that uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) to facilitate a unified platform for accessing information and systems, officials say. In addition to A.I., the web platform leverages business process re-engineering (BPR) “in an exception management-based approach to optimize front, middle and… Read More >>
CFTC Mulls SOFR Start Date for Interdealer Brokers
MRAC Subcommittee Urges July 26 Start Date A key CFTC subcommittee is recommending that interdealer brokers replace the trading of U.S. Dollar linear interest rate swaps (IRS) based upon the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) with the trading of IRS based upon the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) starting July 26, 2021, and to continue… Read More >>
SS&C Cuts Global Staff by 2.2 Percent
SS&C Cites Cost Containment for Layoffs SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc., a provider of post-trade software-based services and systems, has laid off 2.2 percent of its global work force, according to a presentation of financial results for the first quarter of 2021, and full year, which ended March 31, 2021. “Earlier this month, we announced… Read More >>
OCC Lowers Equity Derivatives Clearing Fee
High Volumes Facilitated OCC’s Reduced Fees The Options Clearing Corp. (OCC), which describes itself as “the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization,” is cutting its clearing fee from four-and-a-half cents ($0.045) per equity derivatives contract to two cents ($0.02) per contract effective June 1, 2021, subject to regulatory review, officials say. “The two-cent clearing fee… Read More >>