Financial data, systems and services vendor Markit will be using integration software acquired from JPMorgan to help pave the way for the straight through processing (STP) of loan transactions and to bring greater settlement efficiency to the syndicated loan market, officials say. Markit officials are not disclosing the financial terms of the acquisition, but they… Read More >>
Mongolian Bank Deploys NRI’s Custodian System
Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a consulting services and system solutions vendor, reports that Golomt Bank of Mongolia has gone live with NRI’s custody solution, which will help the bank establish its custodian services, officials say. Golomt Bank, which has been introducing initiatives to accelerate development in the region’s financial sector, is the first custodian bank… Read More >>
ISDA Updates FpML to Ease Regulatory Reporting
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published its recommendation for the XML-based programming language it manages, the Financial products Markup Language (FpML), and version 5.8 adds coverage for more instruments and aims to ease some regulatory reporting burdens. ISDA and derivatives industry participants oversee FpML’s development, and the new version took roughly a… Read More >>
The Promise of Corporate Actions Contradictions
At one point during FTF’s CAPCon New York conference yesterday, a panelist noted that many of the issues being raised have not substantially changed over the past 20 years. While I concede the point, my perception is that corporate actions processing has become a mix of extreme contradictions that are harbingers of real changes to… Read More >>
Tech Spotlight: A Computer Language Automates Human Processes
(Editor’s note: FTF News is launching today a new area of coverage as we spotlight each month a key information technology (IT) trend that is proving to be crucial to the successful operation of middle and back office processes. For January, we focus on the eXtensible Business Reporting Language, also known as XBRL.) The open… Read More >>
