A little more than half of survey respondents — 55 percent — say that they “believe there is high or very high chance” that there will be “a high-impact systemic event” in 2025, and 84 percent express concern that a geopolitical event could impact financial services during the coming year. These findings are from the… Read More >>
Interactive Brokers Bolsters Web-Based ‘Adviser Portal’
Online broker Interactive Brokers has added trading and portfolio management tools to its web-based Advisor Portal that are intended to help financial advisors “streamline client account management,” officials say. The additional features emanate from the firm’s flagship Trader Workstation desktop platform. The latest enhancements are: Portfolio View: This feature provides “an overview of client account… Read More >>
Broadridge & CCRI Target Crypto Sustainability Compliance
A collaboration between Broadridge Financial Solutions and the Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute (CCRI), a provider of sustainability data on digital assets, is slated to deliver an integrated communications, data, and disclosure generation platform intended to help European exchanges, brokers, and asset managers meet new sustainability reporting requirements, officials say. The integration brings together CCRI’s sustainability… Read More >>
Are Transfer Agents Worthy of New Respect?
Is the funds industry on the verge of giving transfer agents new respect especially as these entities adjust to digital transformation and digital assets, which serve as gateways to global expansion? This is one of the arguments in a new white paper “Thinking Local, Winning Global: Transfer Agency as a Strategic Advantage,” from SS&C Technologies,… Read More >>
ESMA Sets Target Date for E.U.’s T+1 Move
The European Union’s head regulator and supervisor, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), has set a definitive target date of Oct. 11, 2027, for the bloc’s highly anticipated transition to a T+1 settlement cycle. The announcement of the transition date is part of ESMA’s final report on shortening the settlement cycle, which includes the… Read More >>
Liquidnet Launches Liquidity-Seeking Algorithm
Agency execution specialist Liquidnet has released in the U.S. a new algorithm for its equities platform. Dubbed SmartDark, the algorithm is intended to help institutional traders prioritize “routing to venues with larger execution sizes and better price stability,” officials say. “SmartDark incorporates a variety of yield and quality metrics to give traders an optimal blend… Read More >>
GoldenSource Embraces A.I. for Platform Update
GoldenSource is offering A.I.-enhanced documentation and search capabilities, advanced visual data validation, and a single, centralized view of investment data at the fund level in the latest version of its cloud-based data management solutions platform, officials say. With the launch of Version 10, GoldenSource aims to provide deeper data analytics capabilities will help clients drive… Read More >>
Northern Trust & Hamilton Lane Bolster Private Funds Support
Custodian Northern Trust and global private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane are collaborating to provide Northern Trust Asset Servicing clients a new link to private market analytics and decision support services. Officials say that the collaboration offers a front-to-back office decision-making solution that combines Hamilton Lane’s analytics with Northern Trust’s investment book of record… Read More >>
T+1 Paves the Way for Modernized Settlement
(In North America, the move to shorter T+1 settlement has helped BNY clients to refocus on the lifecycle of a trade in new ways as they strive for optimal clearing and settlement. So says Brian Ruane in a Q&A with FTF News. A member of BNY’s Executive Committee, Ruane is senior executive vice president and… Read More >>
Japanese Firm Embraces DTCC’s Post-Trade Suite
A Japanese regional bank, FFG Asset Management, is moving to “no touch” post-trade processing for equities and fixed income transactions via the services of the Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) suite from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC). FFG AM, based in Fukuoka, reports that it has selected DTCC’s CTM for the centralized matching of… Read More >>
