Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), a cloud-native provider of an integrated, front-to-back office operations platform for institutional investors, has unveiled CWAN GenAI, a “production-ready” layer embedded with generative artificial intelligence capabilities intended to improve investment management, risk management, reporting, and securities operations across more than $10 trillion in institutional assets, officials say. CWAN clients can access CWAN… Read More >>
Broadridge’s DLR Processed $385B in Repos Last Month
Broadridge Financial Solutions, a provider of services, systems, and software for securities operations, reports that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform hit a record $385 billion in daily repo transactions during October, a record increase of 492 percent over $65 billion in transactions processed in October 2024. In addition, the results last month are 13… Read More >>
FINRA Reminds Firms of ACATS’s Improvements
Self-regulatory organization FINRA recently reminded securities firms that the National Securities Clearing Corp. (NSCC) has modified the transfer process for its Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS), established in 1985 to facilitate “the smooth and electronic transfer of assets, like stocks, bonds, and cash, from one brokerage firm or bank to another,” according to the… Read More >>
TRG Screen’s A.I. Feature Deepens Data Cost Insights
TRG Screen, a provider of market data and subscription cost management technology, has released Xmon AI Assist, a capability intended to bring conversational analytics to market data cost management, officials say. Xmon is a reference data cost and usage monitoring solution that offers “visibility into consumption patterns, cost drivers and vendor billing,” officials add. The… Read More >>
tZERO & Voatz to Develop Digitize Proxy Voting
tZERO Group, a blockchain and tokenization provider for capital markets, and Voatz, a mobile voting technology company, are collaborating to deliver blockchain‑backed, digital proxy voting that will herald a new era of corporate governance, officials say. “Markets have gone digital — governance should follow,” says Alan Konevsky, CEO of tZERO, in a prepared statement. “By… Read More >>
FIS Targets ‘Overlooked Post-Trade Infrastructure’
Financial technology provider FIS has launched the FIS Asset Servicing Management Suite, which company officials say is “a comprehensive suite of automated and integrated solutions” intended to “unlock operational efficiency” in asset servicing. “The suite combines the traditionally separate critical functions of corporate actions processing, proxy voting, class actions claims, operational claims, and tax reclaim… Read More >>
BNY to Provide Support for WisdomTree Prime
WisdomTree, Inc. has appointed the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY) as its banking-as-a-service (BaaS) infrastructure provider for WisdomTree Prime, a retail platform for tokenized assets and cryptocurrency, officials say. WisdomTree is BNY’s first retail digital assets BaaS client. WisdomTree is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) and exchange-traded product (ETP) sponsor and asset manager. “WisdomTree… Read More >>
JP Morgan Embraces Tokenization for PE Funds
J.P. Morgan Private Bank, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and Citco have completed a first by processing a tokenized private equity fund via the Kinexys Fund Flow solution from the Kinexys blockchain business unit of J.P. Morgan, officials say. The new solution “collects, harmonizes, and records investor register and transactional data” for the Kinexys Digital Assets… Read More >>
ISDA & Tokenovate to Push for CDM-Based Ops
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and Tokenovate, a provider of workflows supporting collateral and post-trade management, have launched a task force within the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) to hasten the creation of operations that leverage the Common Domain Model (CDM). The task force effort is in response to “growing market demand for… Read More >>
Tokenization Stalled by Regulatory Uncertainty: Broadridge Survey
Asset and wealth managers are dragging their feet when it comes to the adoption of tokenized assets, according to a new poll from securities operations services and systems giant Broadridge Financial Solutions, with 70 percent of all financial institutions surveyed citing “regulatory uncertainty” as a cause for their hesitancy. Yet, according to Broadridge’s 2025 Tokenization… Read More >>
