‘Citi Global Wealth’ Launches Citi officials report that they have spliced together the bank’s Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and the Institutional Clients Group (ICG) and formed a “unified wealth management organization” dubbed Citi Global Wealth, that will yield one streamlined, integrated platform to serve clients ranging from those in affluent segments to ultra-high net worth… Read More >>
Facial Recognition App Offered via NICE Actimize Marketplace
Facepoint Available via NICE Actimize’s Marketplace Hoboken, N.J.-based NICE Actimize, a NICE business, reports that Facepoint, which offers a biometric risk screening engine, has joined the X-Sight Marketplace NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace includes “more than 60 technology partners,” according to a statement, which calls the marketplace the “first financial crime and compliance ecosystem that connects… Read More >>
St. James’s Place Moves to SS&C’s Bluedoor
With the help of SS&C Technologies, the London-based St. James’s Place Wealth Management (SJP) has migrated its £69.1 billion ($86.3 billion) in customer accounts from a legacy mainframe application to SS&C’s Bluedoor and Percana Insurance solutions in an effort to give end-user clients a single view across pensions and savings products, officials say. SS&C made… Read More >>
Broadridge Grows Canadian Business via RPM Purchase
Post-trade systems and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., is bolstering its Canadian wealth management business by acquiring RPM Technologies, a Toronto-based enterprise wealth management software solutions and services vendor, for approximately $300 million from RPM’s owner private equity firm Bayshore Capital Inc. Broadridge reports that it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire RPM’s… Read More >>
Securian Trust Employs SEI’s Cloud-Based Platform
SEI Client to Focus on Automation & Integration SEI reports that Securian Trust Company, an SEI client since 2009, will adopt its wealth platform, intended to “provide a seamless experience for … clients and the advisors that serve them.” The platform, SEI says, is a “fully-integrated, single-infrastructure technology solution developed to support client relationship management,… Read More >>
Mirador Strips Out Manual Processes via Canoe Intelligence
Mirador, a provider of bespoke portfolio performance reporting solutions, is partnering with Canoe Intelligence to streamline the document management and data extraction workflows required for alternative investment reporting, officials say. The Canoe offerings are helping Mirador eliminate many manual data entry steps for alternative asset investors — a key frustration for the reporting processes associated… Read More >>
Schroders & Lloyds Form Partnership for Mandate & JV
A major British fund manager, Schroders, and a banking giant, Lloyds Banking Group, have agreed to a complex strategic partnership that among other initiatives will yield a financial planning joint venture (JV) intended to jolt the wealth management space for the U.K. “The strategic partnership will combine Schroders’ investment and wealth management expertise and technology… Read More >>
Merrill Lynch Unit Selects FactSet’s Market Data Wares
Merrill Lynch’s wealth management group will be changing market data providers after a two-year review of its data needs, which will mean a move away from the offerings of Thomson Reuters to the deployment of FactSet’s market data products. The agreement is an expansion of a previous relationship between Merrill Lynch and FactSet, a provider… Read More >>
Does Better Investor Literacy Spur More Efficiency?
(Editor’s note: GuidedChoice, a retirement advisory firm, has been what it can to educated investors either directly or as a fiduciary partner to financial services firms. The company, based in San Diego, Calif., began its odyssey by applying institutional software and other IT such as Monte Carlo simulations to the retirement concerns of ordinary investors…. Read More >>
Fiserv’s Unified Wealth Platform Embraces the Robot
(Editor’s note: A provider of an array of financial technology solutions, Fiserv is partnering with Marstone, a New York-based digital advisory firm, to provide the Powered by Marstone suite of digital investment advice solutions. The suite will be offered via Fiserv’s Wealth Management Network. FTF News was lucky to get time with Cheryl Nash, president… Read More >>
