(FTF News recently spoke with Chris Walsh, the CEO of Acadia, about the world of derivatives trading after the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) reforms take hold. An industry veteran, Walsh had key roles at NYSE Technologies, NYFIX, and Thomson Financial before Acadia. Beginning with a mission to automate manual margin call processing, Acadia has expanded… Read More >>
Acadia & Transcend to Build ‘Collateral Validation Service’
Transcend, a collateral, liquidity, and funding solutions vendor, and Acadia, a provider of integrated risk management services, are partnering to automate collateral validation just as Phase 6 of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) will require more industry participants — especially from the buy side — to pledge and receive collateral as margin. Vendor officials say… Read More >>
SmartStream & Acadia Target Collateral Interest Payments
SmartStream System to Use Acadia’s Margin Manager Post-trade solutions vendor SmartStream Technologies is partnering with Acadia, the former AcadiaSoft, which changed its name and mission from a collateral management automation provider to an integrated risk management services vendor for derivatives transactions, officials say. The SmartStream TLM Collateral Management solution “will work alongside Acadia’s interest statements… Read More >>
