Broadridge Financial Solutions, a securities operations systems and services provider, plans to acquire CQG, a well-established provider of futures and options trading, execution management, and market connectivity, and create a more effective single, front-to-back-office, multi-class trading platform that leverages offerings from both companies, officials say. The combined offering to come will be “designed to better… Read More >>
Time to Unify the SEC & CFTC?
Should the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) become a single, unified regulator? It’s not a new question, and recently I have been asking industry veterans if now is a good time to unite the regulators as a way of achieving regulatory efficiencies. But Timothy G. Massad,… Read More >>
FIS Targets ‘Overlooked Post-Trade Infrastructure’
Financial technology provider FIS has launched the FIS Asset Servicing Management Suite, which company officials say is “a comprehensive suite of automated and integrated solutions” intended to “unlock operational efficiency” in asset servicing. “The suite combines the traditionally separate critical functions of corporate actions processing, proxy voting, class actions claims, operational claims, and tax reclaim… Read More >>
S&P Global to Acquire ‘With Intelligence’
Financial data and analytics provider S&P Global has announced that it is acquiring With Intelligence, a provider of data, intelligence, and connections for the global asset management industry, in a deal worth $1.8 billion. The seller is a group led by majority investor Motive Partners, a private investment firm. Officials expect the deal to close… Read More >>
Breaking Down Silos: How SS&C Advent’s Genesis Redefines Investment Ops
(Investment managers are under pressure like never before. Rising client expectations, tighter regulations, and a flood of new data are straining traditional operating models. Too often, firms are left with fragmented systems, manual workarounds, and escalating costs that slow growth and limit agility. We spoke with Boris Bykhovsky, managing director of investment management solutions at… Read More >>
FINRA Criticized for $50M Rebate to Its Members
The Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has been criticized for approving a $50 million rebate to FINRA members rather than distributing the windfall to investors who have won arbitration awards against members of the self-regulatory organization (SRO) but have not been paid. The organization crying foul is the Public Investors… Read More >>
Raymond James Ltd. to Hasten Digital Transformation via FNZ
Raymond James Ltd., the Canadian subsidiary of the North American investment firm Raymond James Financial, is investing in and collaborating with FNZ, a wealth management platform provider, to deliver a wealth management system intended to strengthen Raymond James Ltd.’s value proposition, officials say. The strategic investment in FNZ is intended to strengthen Raymond James Ltd.’s… Read More >>
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 >>
Fundhost Outsources Key Services to SS&C
Fundhost Ltd., a boutique fund services provider to investment managers in Australia, will be outsourcing its unit registry and fund administration operations to SS&C Technologies, officials say. By turning to SS&C and its proprietary platform, FundHost will be streamlining its unit registry and fund administration operations. Fundhost provides “entity, trustee, fund administration, registry, compliance, operations… Read More >>
ProCap Readies Custody for 3 Digital Asset Securities
With the addition of Uniswap (UNI) and Arbitrum (ARB) to its custodial platform, Prometheum Ember Capital will offer custodian support for three digital asset securities, as the firm previously announced custody services for Ethereum’s ether (ETH) token. Prometheum Capital officials say the firm intends to fully launch its custodial services to institutional investors later this… Read More >>
