Schroders Invests in BlueOrchard Global asset manager Schroders and BlueOrchard Finance Ltd. have announced that they have entered into an agreement “under which Schroders will acquire a majority stake in leading impact investor BlueOrchard,” officials say. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, BlueOrchard, which is engaged in microfinance and impact investing, was founded in 2001, officials say…. Read More >>
Voters Reward Disruptive & Established Providers via FTF Awards
NEW YORK CITY — A mix of disruptive and established technology providers have made the winner’s circle of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards (the FTF Awards), which Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is revealing today. For instance, for the Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative, the winner is Synechron while TCS BaNCS and its Quartz effort… Read More >>
Synechron Launches 11 A.I. Data Science Accelerator Centers
Synechron to Focus on Financial Services & Insurance Sectors Synechron, Inc., a financial services consultant and IT services provider, reports the launch of artificial intelligence (AI) data science accelerators for financial services, banking and insurance firms. The new accelerators “help financial services and insurance firms solve complex business challenges by discovering meaningful relationships between events… Read More >>
Thomson Reuters & NRI Expand Reach of BETA Platform
BETA Platform Gets Automated Settlement & STP via Partnership Market data, news and systems provider Thomson Reuters has added international post-trade processing for multi-market and multi-currency securities to its North American wealth management brokerage processing platform, BETA, via the I-STAR/GX platform from Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a system solutions vendor and consultancy. The BETA expansion… Read More >>
Liquidnet & TradeSmart Partnership Targets Buy-Side Customers
TradeSmart Gets New Links to Liquidity With buy-side customers in mind, TradingScreen Inc. is partnering with Liquidnet, an institutional trading network, to allow the TradeSmart order and execution management system (OEMS) to access Liquidnet’s institutional liquidity and trading strategies, officials say. A TradingScreen offering, TradeSmart is a software as a service (Saas) targets best execution… Read More >>
GMEX & Colt Technology to Offer ‘Exchange-in-a-Box’ Services
GMEX and Colt to Support MiFID II Trading Venues GMEX Technologies Ltd (GMEX), a subsidiary of GMEX Group and vendor of multi-asset exchange and post-trade technology is partnering with Colt Technology Services to offer what it calls “the GMEX Exchange-in-a-Box” via the Colt PrizmNet financial extranet, officials say. “GMEX Exchange-in-a-Box is a multi-asset, multi-language hybrid… Read More >>
R3, Synechron to Build DLT-based KYC Solution
12 Banks Support Synechron-R3 Effort Consultancy Synechron and enterprise software vendor R3 are collaborating to provide a know your customer (KYC) solution based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), and the partnership has the support of 12 global banks. Described as one of the largest DLT projects of the year, the KYC solution being developed will… Read More >>
SIX Group Picks Synechron to Lead Post-Trade Project
SIX Group Ltd., the operator of the Swiss Stock Exchange, has selected Synechron as the systems integrator for the Calypso Technology, v15 SFR (Securities Finance Renewal) Program to be used to manage contractual tri-party collateral management activities. The project, which is expected to last two years, is part of an ongoing post-trade update undertaken by… Read More >>
FINRA Promotes to Fill Top Enforcement Post
FINRA’s Susan Schroeder Moves Up Officials at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) report that they have promoted Susan Schroeder to executive vice president and head of enforcement. Schroeder has been the acting head of enforcement since the departure of Brad Bennett earlier this year, FINRA officials say. Previously, she served as senior vice president… Read More >>
FTF Awards Q&A: FinTech Person of the Year
(Editor’s Note: Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) recently held its gala event for the winners of its awards competition for post-trade securities operations, the 2017 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. This year, voters selected Faisal Husain, co-founder and CEO of Synechron as the FinTech Person of the Year. The award recognizes an individual who has been… Read More >>
