Participants in derivatives trading markets are coping with the need for speed driven via two very challenging trends – market volatility and the need for a pre-and post-trade holistic view of risk management for each transaction. Both situations are compelling firms to look to cloud computing, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and other cutting-edge technologies in […]
Despite IT advances, many financial services firms still rely on manual processes to manage collateral and related operations because their existing systems were either built internally or procured via a third party and cannot support new levels of automation, says Neil Murphy, triResolve business manager at OSTTRA. Murphy and Joakim Stromberg, senior director, and head […]
A key deadline is looming for the set of regulatory overhauls known as the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR), which began a phased-in approach in 2016. The sixth and final phase begins on September 1 of this year. Gemma Bailey, director, business management, for triCalculate, and Neil Murphy, business manager at triResolve, both part of OSSTRA, […]
Financial services firms that want to meet investor requirements for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance will find that it boils down to a data challenge that would be helped by greater transparency, says Todd Moyer, president and chief operating officer (COO) for Confluence, in a new FTF Exchange podcast “An area of focus for […]
The industry push to shorten the U.S. securities settlement cycle from trade date plus two days (T+2) to trade date plus one day (T+1) will end batch processing, drive operational costs down, but may cause an uptick in operational risk, says Brian Collings, CEO of Torstone Technology, in this installment of the FTF Exchange […]
CompatibL Technologies, a cutting-edge trading and risk management solutions vendor, has established a direct line between product development and its research and development efforts, says Alexander Sokol, founder, executive chairman, and head of quant research at CompatibL. CompatibL, which won the FTF Award last year for Best Cloud-Native Computing Initiative, bases everything it does, […]
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