Citi’s post-trade platform, Citi Investor Services, has a new feature for asset servicing — Single Event Processing (SEP) technology — a development that Citi officials are calling “a significant step” for real-time asset servicing, prompting the bank to say that “the majority of its custody flows” will be processed via SEP in 2026. In fact,… Read More >>
TS Imagine & Gentek.ai to Co-Develop A.I.-Based Modules
TS Imagine, a provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for capital markets, has launched a strategic development partnership with Gentek.ai, a horizontal artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform with domain experience in financial services, officials say. Officials add that the partnership is intended to co-develop A.I.-based modules designed to cut complexity, improve performance, and “set… Read More >>
SFP Group Adopts Broadridge’s Front-to-Back Platform
Swiss real estate asset manager Swiss Finance & Property Group (SFP Group) is using an investment management technology platform from Broadridge Financial Solutions to oversee more than $15 billion in assets under management. The platform is based on a software-as-a-system (SaaS) platform that is intended to help SFP Group prepare for more growth with a… Read More >>
The Trust Company of Tennessee Taps SS&C’s Platform
The Trust Company of Tennessee has modernized its corporate retirement services support via the SS&C Retirement Recordkeeping platform from SS&C Technologies, officials say. “The Trust Company of Tennessee provides recordkeeping, administration, and advisory services to businesses and organizations offering retirement plans. The platform upgrade enables retirement plan sponsors to deliver retirement and wealth management services… Read More >>
Client Reporting Can Help Asset Managers & Owners Too
Client and regulatory reporting responsibilities for asset managers and asset owners have always been essential operations that, by definition, have to be without flaws, are basic requirements, and are focused on clients’ needs. A new report from provider FactSet, “At the End of It: A Buy-Side Playbook for Reporting Success,” is making the case that… Read More >>
FICC Seeks SEC Approval for Triparty Clearing for Treasuries
The Fixed Income Clearing Corp. (FICC) may be able to offer triparty clearing in time for expanded U.S. Treasury clearing rules via a new offering, dubbed the ACS Triparty Service, within its Agent Clearing Service (ACS) capabilities. However, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must agree to a rule change requested by FICC officials. “As… Read More >>
Are You Ready for T+0 in 2027?
(Editor’s Note: The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) recently published a paper on “The Future of Financial Markets,” addressing the array of challenges the industry continues to grapple with as it transitions to T+, as well as the realities of moving today’s interconnected global market to the hallowed T+0 settlement. Rich Robinson, U.S. chair of… Read More >>
Sibos II: Chainlink Pushes for a Corporate Actions Breakthrough
The Sibos 2025 conference in Frankfurt, Germany, recently concluded, but there were Ops developments on several fronts — corporate actions processing, collateral management, managed services, and financial crime prevention — which are chronicled in this news wrap. Chainlink Advances Corporate Actions Collaboration Chainlink, an Ethereum-based provider of decentralized “oracle” networks, is building upon a… Read More >>
Verity Acquired to Boost TMX Datalinx Offering
A company overseeing many exchanges, TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, has acquired Verity, the maker of a buy-side investment research management system, in an effort to bolster a growth strategy for TMX’s Datalinx client offering, officials say. Verity has two core offerings — VerityRMS, a research management system, and VerityData, featuring datasets… Read More >>
SEC & CFTC Scale Back to Skeleton Staffs
With the shutdown of the U.S. federal government, the financial markets regulators — the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — have issued guidelines to help staff members and market participants maintain some regulatory requirements. During the shutdown, the SEC “will have only an extremely limited number of staff… Read More >>
