Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition and to confirm that there will be an in-person gala event later this year to celebrate the industry’s achievements in operational excellence. “I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a long two years. During… Read More >>
Asset Tokenization Could Reinvent Post-Trade Ops: Report
Asset tokenization holds a lot of promise for traditional capital markets, particularly via the underlying blockchain technology. But getting to the new benefits could mean a gradual replacement of some incumbent post-trade platforms, systems, and services. That’s what David Easthope tells FTF News. Easthope is a senior analyst covering market structure and technology for the… Read More >>
StanChart Uses A.I. for Onboarding Funds & Other News
Standard Chartered Joins the Saphyre Platform Standard Chartered’s capital markets division is using a platform that applies artificial intelligence (A.I.) to the onboarding process for new funds and for the maintenance of those funds, say officials at Saphyre, which is the name of the platform and the financial technology vendor that created it. The patent-approved… Read More >>
BNY Mellon & Aon Form ESG Alliance & Other News
BNY & Aon to Focus on ESG Data & Analytics The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY Mellon) and Aon are partnering to focus on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) needs of clients by combining their respective ESG data and analytics capabilities and unique data sets, officials say. The data and digital collaboration… Read More >>
Xignite Launches an ESG API & Other News
Xignite Partners with ESG Book A vendor of market data application programming interfaces (APIs), Xignite has launched an API for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data that accesses the real-time sustainability dataset of ESG Book, a data vendor partnering with Xignite. The XigniteGlobalESG API encompasses “public companies domiciled in North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin… Read More >>
ASX May Delay CHESS Replacement Launch Again
A key Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) executive has announced another likely delay in the launch of the blockchain-based infrastructure that will replace the legacy Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) due to new requirements for the core software of the platform to come. The ambitious. cutting-edge operations platform for securities transactions was slated to go… Read More >>
BNY Mellon FSI DAC Fined $12M for Regulatory Breaches
Citing 16 breaches of the regulations governing fund administration outsourcing, the Central Bank of Ireland fined BNY Mellon Fund Services DAC a total of €10,780,000 ($11.9 million), making it the largest monetary penalty to date ever imposed on a fund services provider in Ireland. “BNY DAC is the second-largest fund administrator in Ireland with just… Read More >>
Broadridge Revamps ProxyVote App & Other News
ProxyVote Updates Target Ease-of- Voting & Query Concerns Broadridge Financial Solutions has improved its ProxyVote app to help investors gain easier access to proxy information, officials say. “The enhancements make it easier than ever for investors to access and review proxy information in upcoming annual meetings of the companies and mutual funds they own, and… Read More >>
First OTC Crypto Trade for Goldman Sachs & Other Briefs
Goldman Sachs Completes a Bitcoin NDO Trade Goldman Sachs and Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. have executed the investment bank’s first over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency transaction in “the form of a Bitcoin non-deliverable option (NDO),” officials say. Galaxy, which is a global provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency financial services for institutions, reports that the transaction “marks the… Read More >>
FTF Unveils Nominees for the 2022 FTF Awards!
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) and FTF News are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2022 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition. The variety and high volume of nominations are clear signs that fintech achievement is alive and kicking amid the challenges of a global pandemic, volatile markets, and a steady flow of game-changers such… Read More >>
