Investment management systems vendor SimCorp and fixed income analytics specialist IntelliBonds are partnering to offer front-office portfolio management teams alpha generation capabilities that exploit cutting-edge technologies and offer a path to system consolidation, officials say. The partnership will integrate cloud-based workflows that are augmented by artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies as the way to bolster productivity… Read More >>
IPC Collaborates with Digital Reasoning & OpenFin
IPC, a trading communication and networking solutions vendor, is working with two cutting-edge technology providers — Digital Reasoning and OpenFin — in an effort to help financial services firms take steps to update legacy IT infrastructures and improve their productivity. The latest collaboration is with Digital Reasoning, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) solutions provider. The new… Read More >>
Broadridge Partnership Yields Corporate Bond Trading Platform
Post-trade systems and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions reports that it’s partnering with Jim Toffey, founder of Tradeweb and now CEO of LiquidX, and has added artificial intelligence technologies to a Broadridge fixed income post-trade processing offering to create a corporate bond trading platform, dubbed LTX. The new platform has already been used to execute… Read More >>
Musings on the New Ops Normal to Come
The global pandemic lockdown has given most of us a time-out that allows us to step back and reconsider a variety of situations. My mind went to scenarios for securities operations, and here are some of my musings on what-if scenarios that could pave the way for permanent changes, once we get to a new, safer… Read More >>
Your AI Team Should Be Cross Functional: Q&A
(Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are poised to cause major overhauls in the financial services industry. Securities operations teams across the globe are laying the groundwork to embrace this inevitable disruption. To provide our readers with insight on how to take the first steps, FTF News reached out to Rashed Haq, the… Read More >>
TransparINT Acquired by Steele Compliance Solutions
Steele Compliance Solutions is taking a major step forward in applying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to new compliance tools for financial services firms via its recently announced acquisition of TransparINT, which offers data filtering that exploits machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). Steele declined to reveal what it paid for TransparINT and assured FTF… Read More >>
JPMorgan Opens Its Research to Amazon’s Alexa
We are hearing a great deal about how artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotics — applied individually or via combinations — are going to take over the world, eliminating securities industry jobs and maybe even entire professions. Yet I suspect (my Luddite impulses aside) that disruptive technologies may yield services that we hadn’t anticipated… Read More >>
Post-Trade Providers Need to Be More Innovative: Survey
Being innovative is simply not enough in the current fast-paced and continually changing post-trade environment, according to a new survey by Six Securities. Post-trade service providers also need to offer technology that creates value beyond being “simply operational.” The report which was conducted in conjunction with independent researcher firm Vanson Bourne found that 67 percent… Read More >>
Broadridge Enters Robo-Advisory Market via Wealthsimple Partnership
Broadridge Targets Next-Generation Investment Strategies Broadridge Financial Solutions is partnering with Wealthsimple, a digital investing service in Canada, to, automated investment management, also known as “robo-advisory services,” that will support advisor-investor and direct-to-investor models, officials say. The partnership will integrate Broadridge’s capabilities with the Wealthsimple technology platform, in an effort to “drive efficiencies in client… Read More >>
NRI, Mizuho Explore AI Overhaul of Derivatives Contracts
Systems provider and consultancy Nomura Research Institute (NRI) recently completed a proof-of-concept test project with Mizuho Bank operations staff that applied artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to labor-intensive derivatives contract processing in order to find efficiencies. For most participants in derivatives markets, the standard operating procedure for managing derivative contracts involves the exchange of printed International… Read More >>
