Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) officials have issued a warning that the global disruption caused by the CrowdStrike Outage could be followed by secondary attacks. “In connection to the widespread disruption, member firms should be aware they may experience secondary attacks from cyber criminals seeking to leverage this incident to carry out social engineering and… Read More >>
DTCC APIs Offer Direct Access to SSIs & Other News
DTCC ALERT Also Has an SSI Milestone Post-trade market infrastructure provider DTCC has launched a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) and hit a milestone with its ALERT online global database for standing settlement instructions (SSIs), officials say. The ALERT API suite offers “an alternate way to request and receive SSI and market availability… Read More >>
Top Cloud Providers Join EDM Council Group: Q&A
(Late last month, a global trade association for data management, the EDM Council, announced that it had launched the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) Best Practices Work Group with the mission of developing an open source CDMC Best Practice Framework that would accelerate cloud adoption and facilitate associated controls. The EDM Council, which has 10,000… Read More >>
Broadridge & SWIFT Help Clients Use Public Clouds
At the SWIFT SIBOS conference in London, Broadridge Financial Solutions announced that its Global Asset Servicing Solution has been made available via Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and announced the release of a cloud-based data control solution suite. At the same time, SWIFT officials will be facilitating clients that want to move to public… Read More >>
IPC Extranet Links to Crypto-Trading Gateway
IPC Systems, a voice-trading, electronic communication and networking solutions vendor, is launching a partnership that facilitates extranet access to a platform from newcomer Omniex that supports the trading of digital assets via cryptocurrency exchanges and over-the-counter (OTC) venues. With this move, IPC is targeting buy- and sell-side firms that want to start trading digital assets,… Read More >>
