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Cboe Postpones Trading Floor Reopening

June 4, 2020 by Eugene Grygo

Cboe Postpones Trading Floor Reopening

Cboe Global Markets has postponed the re-opening of its “South Loop” trading floor until Monday, June 15, a week later than previously announced. The reopening of the officially named Cboe Options Exchange (C1) trading floor “was previously scheduled for Monday, June 8, 2020,” according to the latest Cboe statement. “The decision to postpone the reopening… Read More >>

Filed Under: FTF Bull Run Blog, Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Clearing, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, General Interest, Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, Opinion, Minding the Gap, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: CBOE, clearing, collateral management, COVID-19, derivatives, equity and option exchanges, governance, open outcry, operations, pandemic, Securities Operations, trading floor

DTCC Tests DLT’s Usage for Post-Trade Ops

May 26, 2020 by Eugene Grygo

DTCC Tests DLT’s Usage for Post-Trade Ops

Post-trade infrastructure provider the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. has launched two experiments — dubbed Project Ion and Project Whitney — that are collaborative industry efforts to investigate how distributed ledger technology (DLT) might strengthen post-trade processes such as the elimination of manual processes in the private markets, and new securities settlement via public markets,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards, Performance Measurement, Industry News Tagged With: automation, blockchain, Buy-side, collateral management, corporate actions, data management, derivatives, DTCC, governance, operations, reconciliation, settlement

IHS Markit Acquires Trade Reporting Vendor

May 8, 2020 by FTF News

IHS Markit Acquires Trade Reporting Vendor

Catena Technologies Becomes Part of IHS Markit IHS Markit, a market data, analytics and solutions vendor, reports that it will be able to offer a solution that integrates transaction reporting with other post-trade and compliance workflows via the acquisition of Catena Technologies, a regulatory trade reporting provider for an undisclosed sum. The combination with IHS… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Clearing, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Governance, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, Bloomberg, Borsa İstanbul, collateral management, compliance, data management, EMIR, ESMA, IHS Markit, MiFID II, operations, SteelEye, Trading Technologies

Northern Trust’s Client Portal Gets a Cloud Makeover

May 6, 2020 by FTF News

Northern Trust’s Client Portal Gets a Cloud Makeover

Online Report Center Will Become a Cloud Service Northern Trust is relaunching a client-facing portal, the Online Report Center, as a cloud-based service with a redesigned user interface, officials say. The revamped service “is currently in its beta phase with a select group of clients. The full release for all clients will be available later… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Case Studies, Clearing, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: automation, Bakkt, BidFX, Buy-side, CACEIS, CFTC, clearing, cloud computing, collateral management, compliance, data management, Northern Trust, Securities Operations

Morningstar Acquires Sustainalytics for $59M

April 28, 2020 by FTF News

Morningstar Acquires Sustainalytics for $59M

Morningstar Ups Ownership of ESG Research Firm Morningstar, Inc., an investment research provider, reports an agreement to acquire Sustainalytics, a provider of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and research. Morningstar also points out that it currently has an approximately 40 percent ownership stake in Sustainalytics, first acquired in 2017, and that, under the terms… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Clearing, Data Management, Industry News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, General Interest, Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: automation, back office, CLS, CMO, collateral management, compliance, COVID-19, data management, Euronext, ICAP, Morningstar, SEC, settlement

Commcise Launches Commission Management Service

September 20, 2019 by FTF News

Commcise Launches Commission Management Service

‘Commission-Management-As-A-Service’ Debuts Commcise, a provider of integrated commission management, research evaluation, consumption tracking and reporting solutions for investment management and brokerage firms, reports the launch of CommciseCM, a stand-alone, cloud-based commission management platform designed to help U.S. asset managers and hedge funds obtain a “full commission wallet view of their entire trading activity.” CommciseCM, majority-owned… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Clearing, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Risk Management, Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Back-Office, Integration, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: AcadiaSoft, BNY Mellon, Chris Walsh, cloud-based commission management, collateral management, Commcise, consumption tracking, Deutsche Borse, integrated commission management, investment management, Qontigo, Quanthouse, Reconciliations, research evaluation, Sebastian Ceria, SpiderRock, SWIFT

AcadiaSoft Chairman to Step Down Later This Year

August 20, 2019 by Eugene Grygo

AcadiaSoft Chairman to Step Down Later This Year

Collateral management services provider AcadiaSoft Inc. is undergoing a major change at the top with the news that industry veteran Howard Edelstein, the company’s board chairman will be stepping down before the end of the year and his replacement is expected to be selected over the coming months, officials say. AcadiaSoft has begun a search… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Clearing, Data Management, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Back-Office, Integration, Standards, KYC, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: AcadiaSoft, Chris Walsh, collateral management, collateral management processes, fintech, Howard Edelstein, People Moves

AcadiaSoft Offers AANA Calculation Guide

June 6, 2019 by Eugene Grygo

AcadiaSoft Offers AANA Calculation Guide

AcadiaSoft, a collateral management software and services vendor, recently compiled an online guide to help buy-side firms calculate their Average Aggregate Notional Amount (AANA), the first major step in deciding if a firm needs to comply with the looming margining requirements governing non-centrally cleared derivatives. AANA calculations are key to determining whether a firm must… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, Performance Measurement, KYC, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Cybersecurity, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: AANA, AcadiaSoft, Buy-side, cleared derivatives, collateral management, margining requirements, OTC derivatives, regulatory variation margin

Broadridge Acquires Rockall Technologies

May 1, 2019 by Eugene Grygo

Broadridge Acquires Rockall Technologies

Broadridge Financial Solutions has taken a major step to expand its front-to-back wealth management capabilities via the acquisition of Rockall Technologies, a provider of securities-based lending (SBL) and collateral management solutions for wealth management firms and commercial banks. Rockall’s collateral management technology targets financial institutions that need to “improve the performance of wealth, retail, commercial… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Clearing, Data Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle-Office, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, General Interest, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: Broadridge, collateral management, Houlihan Lokey, M&A, Michael Alexander, Richard Bryce, Rockall Technologies, Securities-based lending

SmartStream Partners with Cassini to Ease IM Compliance

March 21, 2019 by Eugene Grygo

SmartStream Partners with Cassini to Ease IM Compliance

Post-trade services and systems vendor SmartStream Technologies is partnering with Cassini Systems, a margin analytics vendor serving the buy side in derivatives trading, in an effort to ease the operational burden of managing initial margin requirements for uncleared, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The vendors will focus on financial institutions that are beginning the create new operational… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Clearing, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: asset class, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Cassini Systems, collateral management, currency, IM Compliance, International Organization of Securities Commissions, Liam Huxley, OTC derivatives, post-trade margin, SmartStream, Uncleared Margin Rules

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