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A.I. Is a Force Multiplier for Ops Teams: SS&C

July 2, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

A.I. Is a Force Multiplier for Ops Teams: SS&C

(Applying artificial intelligence (A.I.) to securities operations is “definitely a force multiplier,” says Rob Stone, senior vice president and general manager of intelligent automation and analytics at SS&C Technologies, in this FTF News Q&A. For the past two years, Stone has been getting to know all that SS&C Blue Prism can do for A.I.-powered automation,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Hedge Fund Operations, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Risk Management, Settlement, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Trends, Opinion, Q&As, Cybersecurity, Regulatory Compliance, Economic Sanctions Tagged With: AI technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), automation, back office, Blue Prism, Buy-side, compliance, digital workers, Large Language Models (LLM), robotic process automation (RPA), Securities Operations, SS&C Technologies

SEC Chair Declares New Era of Reasonable Deadlines

July 2, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

SEC Chair Declares New Era of Reasonable Deadlines

“The days of unreasonable deadlines have passed,” declared SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins late last month. The head of the SEC was referring to the commission’s vote to extend the compliance date to June 30, 2026, for the amendments to the broker-dealer “Customer Protection Rule (a.k.a. Rule 15c3-3).” “This extension will provide more time for broker-dealers… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Sell-Side, Digital Transformation, Opinion, Minding the Gap, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Enforcement, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: automation, broker/dealers, compliance, institutional investors, investor protections, SEC, Securities Operations, Standards, wall street

‘Your Bourse’ Expands Liquidity via BlockFills Link

July 2, 2025 by FTF News

‘Your Bourse’ Expands Liquidity via BlockFills Link

BlockFills, a digital assets market infrastructure provider, has been integrated with brokerage technology provider Your Bourse, which will expand BlockFills’ network of liquidity providers while at the same time allowing BlockFills to serve as a liquidity provider to brokers using the Your Bourse platform, officials say. The Your Bourse trading and pricing infrastructure supports cryptocurrencies,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Data Management, FX Operations, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Asset Custody, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards, Cybersecurity, Economic Sanctions Tagged With: automation, blockchain, crypto operations, crypto-based assets, liquidity, liquidity provider, operational risk

Ortex to Provide Short Interest Data to EDI Clients

July 2, 2025 by FTF News

Ortex to Provide Short Interest Data to EDI Clients

Global securities data provider Exchange Data International (EDI) is partnering with financial analytics provider Ortex to offer EDI clients access to Ortex’s comprehensive Short Interest Data, officials say. The partnership is intended to help EDI clients access “real-time short interest data, including key metrics such as shares on loan, cost of borrow, and the Ortex… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Corporate Actions, Data Management Tagged With: API, application programming interfaces, automation, back office, corporate actions processing, Market Data, reference data

AutoRek Launches Recs Platform for Crypto Ops

July 2, 2025 by FTF News

AutoRek Launches Recs Platform for Crypto Ops

AutoRek, a provider of automated reconciliation and financial control solutions, has launched Mion, a data management and reconciliation platform targeting a gap in the market for financial institutions — cryptocurrency and digital asset operations, officials say. Mion offers “unprecedented precision” because it offers “processing up to 20 digits before and 18 after the decimal point… Read More >>

Filed Under: Back Office, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Digital Asset Custody, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards Tagged With: Automated Reconciliation, automation, crypto operations, crypto transactions, data management, data reconciliation, Securities Operations

Mereo Insurance Taps Northern Trust Asset Servicing

June 25, 2025 by FTF News

Mereo Insurance Taps Northern Trust Asset Servicing

A new reinsurance firm, Mereo Insurance Ltd., has tapped Northern Trust Asset Servicing to provide custody services and institutional brokerage solutions, which means that it will act as a broker for Mereo’s trade execution needs, officials say. In addition, the Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) unit will manage “a portion of Mereo’s fixed income portfolio… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Integration, Standards Tagged With: automation, data management, operational risk, outsourcing, Reinsurance, Securities Operations

Partior Links to OSTTRA’s FX PvP Settlement Service

June 25, 2025 by FTF News

Partior Links to OSTTRA’s FX PvP Settlement Service

Partior, a provider of DLT-based wholesale settlement for tokenized instruments, has a new link to the on-demand FX payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement service from OSTTRA and Baton Systems, officials say. The new integration between Baton’s and Partior’s DLT-based systems “expands participants’ options for settling FX transactions with PvP protection to include using tokenized commercial bank facilities…. Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, FX Operations, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Private Markets, Digital Transformation, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, blockchain, compliance, data management, FX markets, FX settlement, FX traders, Securities Operations

DTCC to Explore Fnality Integration with Digital Launchpad

June 25, 2025 by FTF News

DTCC to Explore Fnality Integration with Digital Launchpad

Post-trade infrastructure provider the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) and a provider of regulated DLT-based wholesale payment systems Fnality are collaborating “on the potential integration of the Fnality wholesale payments system (FnPS) as a payment rail” within DTCC’s recently introduced Digital Launchpad, officials say. The Digital Launchpad supports “the testing and advancement of emerging… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Asset Custody, FinTech Trends, Cybersecurity, Economic Sanctions Tagged With: automation, back office, blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT), operational risk, operations, wholesale payments

Sifma & Arteria AI Take On U.S. Treasury Clearing

June 25, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

Sifma & Arteria AI Take On U.S. Treasury Clearing

It’s fascinating when solutions based on artificial intelligence (A.I.) can transform a manual process into something that is not only automated but completely redesigned. As many of you know, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is requiring the centralized clearing of U.S. Treasury securities repurchase transactions, with the first compliance deadline being Dec. 31, 2026,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Trends, Integration, Standards, Opinion, Minding the Gap, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: automation, back office, clearing, compliance, data management, digital documentation, repo, Securities Operations, US Treasury clearing

Calero Automates the Management of LSEG Entitlements

June 25, 2025 by FTF News

Calero Automates the Management of LSEG Entitlements

Automation has come to the management of the London Stock Exchange Group’s Refinitiv Data Platform (Hosted) via a new application programming interface (API) link and eBonding capabilities from Calero, a solutions provider for managing the cost and compliance of market data, officials say. The Calero support is intended to help heads of market data and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Operational Risk, Digital Transformation, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting Tagged With: automation, back office, compliance, data management, market data management, market data solutions, Securities Operations, Standards, wall street

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