Aladdin & LTX Users Get Cross-Platform Access BlackRock’s Aladdin platform has a new channel to liquidity via its integration with the Liquidity Cloud offering from LTX, a subsidiary of Broadridge Financial Solutions, and the link helps common clients of LTX and Aladdin to access trading functions of both platforms, officials report. LTX is a… Read More >>
Acadia Launches an IM Recalibration Tool & Other News
Acadia Solution Compares ISDA SIMM Versions Acadia, a maker of risk mitigation services for derivatives trading, has launched a web-based offering, dubbed IM Recalibration Analytics (IMRA), that is intended to help firms assess the impact of the new ISDA Standard Initial Margin Model (ISDA SIMM), a methodology that helps securities firms calculate initial margin for… Read More >>
‘Morgan Money’ Links to Clearwater Platform & Other News
Clearwater Analytics & JPAM Connect Systems JPMorgan Asset Management (JPAM) has launched a strategic effort to integrate its Morgan Money global trading platform with a key accounting and reporting platform from Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater Analytics, officials say. Morgan Money is a multi-currency, open architecture trading and risk management system that helps customers to view… Read More >>
DRW & SocGen Join Broadridge’s DLR Bandwagon
Market-maker DRW, Société Générale, and an unnamed global bank executed intraday repo transactions via the Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform developed by post-trade provider Broadridge Financial Solutions, and the trio has thus expanded the network for the platform, officials say. “These latest transactions build on the momentum of DLR’s first intraday repo transaction in April… Read More >>
Broadridge’s NYFIX Links to Linedata OMS & Other News
Broadridge Expands Partnership with Linedata The NYFIX Matching solution from Broadridge Financial Solutions will be integrated with the Longview order management system (OMS) from Linedata to provide more automation for NYFIX’s middle- and back-office functions, officials say. To make more automation possible, Broadridge expanded its partnership with Linedata, a provider of asset management and credit… Read More >>
UBS Completes Repo Trade via Blockchain & Other News
Banks Use Broadridge DLR Platform UBS and an unnamed Asian bank have “executed the first cross-border intraday repo transaction on Broadridge’s blockchain-enabled Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform,” according to operations, systems, and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions. The intraday trade “marks the launch of the next phase in the rollout of Broadridge’s DLR platform …… Read More >>
BlackRock Tops the Broadridge FB50 List
Despite volatile markets last year, the current Fund Brand 50 (FB50) rankings of the best-performing, third-party asset management brands revealed that seven of the top 10 asset managers held the same position in 2022 as they did the year before. The annual study is sponsored by Broadridge Financial Solutions, a provider of securities operations systems,… Read More >>
Voting Begins in the FTF Awards Competition!
We are pleased to announce that voting has begun for the nominees of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards 2023, a competition overseen by Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) and the news service. Industry participants pick the winners. Voting began on March 20 when we officially unveiled the nominees and will end on April 28. We… Read More >>
Broadridge Launches Shareholder Reports Template & Other News
Broadridge Solution Eases SEC Compliance Broadridge Financial Solutions reports that it has developed a “technology-enabled template and end-to-end process solution for fund companies and fund administrators” that “simplifies the steps involved in creating and providing the SEC’s new Tailored Shareholder Reports.” The digital template “is good for fund investors and compliant with the rules,” says… Read More >>
Why Post-Trade Data Is Key to Digitization
(Firms engaged in securities trading are being pressured to undergo a digital transformation as soon as possible. It’s no surprise then that some firms are contemplating a big bang overhaul. But that would not be in a firm’s best interest, says Justin Llewellyn-Jones, head of capital markets, North America (equities and derivatives), Broadridge Financial Solutions…. Read More >>
