Asset managers and other financial services firms working in the life, pensions, and retirement sectors need optimal customer service and to help them SS&C Technologies has launched its Contact Center platform, which leverages artificial intelligence (A.I.) to deliver “personalized customer experiences 24/7,” officials say. The SS&C Contact Center is the next-generation platform that builds upon… Read More >>
T+1: No Victory Until Affirmations Reach 100%
As many teams in North America canceled their weekly T+1 transition meetings, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler has called on the U.K. to trigger its own implementation. Top of the list of lessons to learn from North America’s transition, Gensler said, is setting a date. “Until you do that, it is a lot… Read More >>
FTF Reveals the Winners of the 2024 FTF Awards
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) proudly announces the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition winners. The awards effort shines the spotlight on the winners of the FTF Awards competition — now in its 13th year — for their accomplishments in 2023 and on individuals who have made great contributions to their profession and those who… Read More >>
North America’s Rocky Road to T+1 Begins
Like it or not, North American firms are getting new plumbing for settlement. Settlement within the shorter time frame of the trading day plus another day, or T+1, is becoming a reality for North American firms, starting with those firms in Canada and Mexico, and with a nod to South America, Argentina, on Monday, May 27,… Read More >>
NYSE Council to Explore A.I. & Other Technologies
The New York Stock Exchange has launched the NYSE Tech Council, a group of senior technology leaders that will explore best practices for artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and other cutting-edge technologies. “The council will be comprised of chief technology officers, chief information officers and other C-suite technology leaders from NYSE-listed companies,” according to the announcement. “With… Read More >>
BondWave & DbCom Integrate Analytics & Compliance
BondWave, a fixed income solutions provider, and DbCom Inc., a financial technology company, have integrated BondWave’s pre-trade and post-trade transaction analytics with DbCom’s business and compliance platform, EQube, officials say. The new integration will be delivered via BondWave’s Effi application programming interface (API) to offer trade surveillance in support of “best execution, fair pricing, and… Read More >>
GoldenSource to Sell Its Wares via AWS Marketplace
GoldenSource is making its data management offerings available on the AWS Marketplace — a website for third-party software, data, and services that run in an Amazon Web Services environment. The move will help the enterprise data management (EDM) solutions provider sell its wares to a wider market and collaborate with the AWS go-to-market team, GoldenSource… Read More >>
The Ops-A.I. Revolution Has Begun: SS&C’s Bill Stone
From Bill Stone’s perspective as chairman and CEO of SS&C Technologies, the fairly recent advances that SS&C has made into the Abu Dhabi market and with artificial intelligence (A.I.) are examples of the same thing — the company is breaking new ground literally and figuratively in the highly competitive world of post-trade systems, software, services,… Read More >>
Can A.I. Advance Automation in Commodities Trading?
Can technologies based upon artificial intelligence (A.I.) help squeeze out the manual processes that can clog the plumbing of commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) solutions? Quor Group, a provider of CTRM solutions, and ClearDox LLC, a commodities solutions provider that leverages A.I., think it can be done and have begun a collaboration. They are… Read More >>
Clearstream Joins ECB’s DLT-for-Settlement Trials
Clearstream, the post-trade business unit of Deutsche Börse Group, has joined the distributed-ledger technology (DLT) trials and experiments of the European Central Bank (ECB), which is exploring DLT’s potential for wholesale central bank money settlement, given the emergence of a digital Euro. “The ECB trials will be conducted in a productive environment, using real central… Read More >>