Goldman Sachs Jolts Wealth Management Strategy Goldman Sachs Group is acquiring United Capital Financial Partners, Inc. for $750 million in cash as a way to broaden the reach of the Wall Street giant’s intellectual capital and investment capabilities, officials say. The transaction is expected to close during the third quarter of this year, subject to… Read More >>
BNY & AcadiaSoft Focus On the CM Maze: Q&A
(Custodian bank BNY Mellon is teaming up with collateral management software and services vendor AcadiaSoft to offer an outsourced service that supports margin calculations for non-cleared derivatives. This is an effort to help buy-side derivatives market participants “fully outsource their entire non-cleared margin workflow, via the market’s first end-to-end collateral solution developed by BNY Mellon,”… Read More >>
BlackRock & BNY Mellon Streamline Access to Aladdin
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon) and BlackRock’s solutions business group have launched a strategic alliance that offers the full suite of BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, tools and capabilities in one place in an effort to closely couple data and optimize operating models to bolster efficiency, officials say. The collaboration is intended to… Read More >>
ISDA Publishes CDM Blueprint for the Industry
ISDA Wants CDM to Restructure the Market The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published the “full version of the ISDA Common Domain Model (CDM) for interest rate and credit derivatives,” which ISDA officials hope will serve as “a common blueprint” for restructuring the foundations of the market. To facilitate that restructuring, ISDA will… Read More >>
Apex Group to Use GoldenSource’s Services
Apex Hoping SaaS Solution Will Help Growth Fund administrator Apex Group Ltd., touted as the world’s fifth largest fund administrator, has signed on to use GoldenSource’s its centralized pricing and reference data services, officials say. Apex will use GoldenSource’s enterprise data management (EDM) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to improve operating and cost efficiencies “through the standardization… Read More >>
Key Firms Issue Pink Slips During Bonus Season
As the new year got underway, some staff members at A-list financial services firms got pink slips instead of bonuses as more firms lay off staff — a result of rocky 2018 markets that have taken their toll on the bottom line. In particular, on the buy side, firms are reeling from investors’ preference for… Read More >>
AxiomSL Hires CFO from Charles River Development
David Weber to Serve as CFO &COO for AxiomSL AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management services, reports the appointment of David Weber as chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO). Weber is a financial services industry veteran, with more than 30 years of financial management and operations experience, AxiomSL says…. Read More >>
Temenos Offers NAV Oversight via Bloomberg Terminal
Temenos Collaborates with Bloomberg Banking software vendor Temenos is collaborating with Bloomberg to deliver contingency Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations to buy-side institutions via the Bloomberg terminal. Temenos is making its Multifonds Global Accounting product accessible via the Bloomberg Terminal, so that it will operates with data, analytics, and other investment workflow services from Bloomberg,… Read More >>
JPMorgan Pays $135 Million to Settle ADR Woes
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. is paying more than $135 million in total monetary relief to settle the SEC’s allegations that it improperly handled “pre-released” American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), an industry practice that the bank says it has stepped away from. The SEC’s actions against JPMorgan constitute the “eighth action against a bank or broker, and… Read More >>
Bakkt Secures $182 Million in Funding
Twelve Major Investors Fund BAKKT’s Future Crypto-currency platform startup Bakkt has completed its first round of funding of $182.5 million “from 12 partners and investors who, like us, believe in the future of digital assets,” says Kelly Loeffler, Bakkt CEO, in a recent blog posting on the company’s website. “The partners and investors in… Read More >>
