DTCC ALERT Also Has an SSI Milestone Post-trade market infrastructure provider DTCC has launched a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) and hit a milestone with its ALERT online global database for standing settlement instructions (SSIs), officials say. The ALERT API suite offers “an alternate way to request and receive SSI and market availability… Read More >>
Does FINOS Have a Cloud Blueprint for Regulators?
Should global regulators create regulations based on a relatively new set of open-source standards that provide consistent controls over cybersecurity and compliance for cloud deployments in the financial services sector? The answer is in the affirmative for a panel of industry representatives who took part in the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) of the… Read More >>
Citi & FINOS Push for ‘Common Cloud Controls’
Financial services giant Citi and the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) are launching an open standard project that will formulate “consistent controls” for cloud computing cybersecurity, resiliency, and compliance that cloud service providers (CSPs) can use as the basis for a common set of services. The “Common Cloud Controls (CCC)” push is intended to bring… Read More >>
Crystal Capital Partners to Deploy SS&C Systems & Other News
Crystal Capital to Bolster Ops via SS&C Systems Crystal Capital Partners, an alternative investment platform provider, reports that it has selected the Geneva and Advent systems from SS&C Technologies to “streamline portfolio management and reporting across more than 500 customized portfolios and support further growth,” officials say. “Our integration with SS&C will help streamline the… Read More >>
T+1 Spurs Demand for SS&C’s Settlement Service & Other News
150+ Clients Sign Up for SS&C’s Trade Matching Service Citing the U.S. funds industry gearing up for T+1 trade settlement next year, SS&C Technologies reports that “more than 150 clients are using its Trade Matching & Settlements Service to support post-trade execution functions.” “Using SS&C’s Trade Matching & Settlements Service has enabled us to ensure… 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 >>
Neuberger Berman to Use Fund Recs Platform & Other News
Neuberger Berman to Use Velocity for EMIR Reconciliation Neuberger Berman, a New York-based, private, employee-owned investment management firm, will be using a platform from cloud-based reconciliation software vendor Fund Recs for trade reconciliation via the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) guidelines. The firm, which oversees $418 billion in client assets, will use the Fund… Read More >>
BNY Mellon & Baton Bring DLT to Collateral & Other News
BNY Mellon & Baton Systems Form Partnership Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is at the heart of a new post-trade, collateral management collaboration between BNY Mellon and Baton Systems. The joint offering links Baton’s central clearing counterparty (CCP) network with BNY Mellon’s Enterprise Continuous Portfolio Optimization (ECPO) service in an effort to help mutual clients improve… Read More >>
Davy Capital Markets Taps Torstone & Other News
Davy Capital Markets to Revamp Post-Trade Ops Dublin-based wealth manager Davy Capital Markets reports that it has become a Torstone Technology customer and will use the Torstone Platform to evolve its post-trade processing operations. “We have built and maintained our own post-trade platform for many years, and this has served us very well, as it… Read More >>
Snowflake to Host Cboe’s Data Framework & Other News
Cboe to Send Data & Analytics to the Cloud Exchanges company Cboe Global Markets reports that it is moving its corporate data and analytics from onsite systems to the cloud via Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Cboe officials say that they are making the change to bring “speed, scalability, and efficiency” to Cboe’s management of internal, proprietary data… Read More >>
