As many teams in North America canceled their weekly T+1 transition meetings, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler has called on the U.K. to trigger its own implementation. Top of the list of lessons to learn from North America’s transition, Gensler said, is setting a date. “Until you do that, it is a lot… Read More >>
BNY Mellon Debuts Pershing X Wove Suite & Bundled Offering
The Bank of New York Mellon is moving to bring greater cohesion to key Pershing offerings, which at the same time will open pathways to the custodian bank’s more enterprise-wide offerings. BNY Mellon’s enhancements to the Pershing X Wove platform are in line with the provider’s goal to be the “most connected advisory platform in… Read More >>
SS&C Grows Fund Administration Business in India
SS&C Technologies officials report that they have opened an office in the Indian special economic zone Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), which adds to the post-trade systems and services provider’s presence in India. The International Financial Services Centers Authority (IFSCA), which is the regulatory body for special economic zones, has licensed SS&C GlobeOp “to… Read More >>
North America’s Rocky Road to T+1 Begins
Like it or not, North American firms are getting new plumbing for settlement. Settlement within the shorter time frame of the trading day plus another day, or T+1, is becoming a reality for North American firms, starting with those firms in Canada and Mexico, and with a nod to South America, Argentina, on Monday, May 27,… Read More >>
NYSE Council to Explore A.I. & Other Technologies
The New York Stock Exchange has launched the NYSE Tech Council, a group of senior technology leaders that will explore best practices for artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and other cutting-edge technologies. “The council will be comprised of chief technology officers, chief information officers and other C-suite technology leaders from NYSE-listed companies,” according to the announcement. “With… Read More >>
Cornerstone FTM Goes Live With High-Velocity Platform
Hedge fund Cornerstone FTM has gone live with “a cutting-edge” investment platform that leverages the portfolio support, custody, and fund administration services of Northern Trust and the infrastructure and data management offerings of Equity Data Science (EDS), a business partner of Northern Trust. The collaboration between Northern Trust and EDS, which provides the real-time quantitative… Read More >>
Performance Teams Are at a Crossroads
Advances in technology and workflow management appear to be changing forever the work of performance measurement teams and how they accomplish it, according to a new white paper “In the Thick of It: How Performance Teams are Driving Value Across the Organization,” from FactSet. For instance, nine out 10 respondents to the survey — upon… Read More >>
SEC Report Offers Useful Stats On Trillions of Dollars
The SEC mostly taketh when it comes to data, regulatory forms, and ongoing reports. But every once in a while the regulator giveth as far as key data about trillions of dollars flowing through the securities industry. In particular, SEC staff has just released a new report, “Registered Fund Statistics,” that is based on “aggregated… Read More >>
Options & Magtia Partner for Cross-Referencing Data Platform
The new partnership between Options Technology, a capital markets trading infrastructure provider, and Magtia Ltd., a financial symbology platform vendor, will yield a cross-referencing data platform for multi-asset class content that will serve front, middle, and back-office securities operations. The partnership will result in customized application programming interface (API) connectivity combined with symbology and cross-referencing… Read More >>
GoldenSource to Sell Its Wares via AWS Marketplace
GoldenSource is making its data management offerings available on the AWS Marketplace — a website for third-party software, data, and services that run in an Amazon Web Services environment. The move will help the enterprise data management (EDM) solutions provider sell its wares to a wider market and collaborate with the AWS go-to-market team, GoldenSource… Read More >>
