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What Does a Post-UMR World Look Like?

August 3, 2022 by Eugene Grygo

What Does a Post-UMR World Look Like?

(FTF News recently spoke with Chris Walsh, the CEO of Acadia, about the world of derivatives trading after the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) reforms take hold. An industry veteran, Walsh had key roles at NYSE Technologies, NYFIX, and Thomson Financial before Acadia. Beginning with a mission to automate manual margin call processing, Acadia has expanded… Read More >>

Filed Under: Digital Transformation, Securities Operations, Automation, Data Management, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, Back-Office, Integration, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Governance, KYC, Operational Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, Opinion, Q&As Tagged With: Acadia, automation, derivatives, back office, data management, compliance, OTC derivatives, risk management, settlement, collateral management, operational risk, collateral optimization

SmartStream & Acadia Target Collateral Interest Payments

July 15, 2021 by FTF News

SmartStream & Acadia Target Collateral Interest Payments

SmartStream System to Use Acadia’s Margin Manager Post-trade solutions vendor SmartStream Technologies is partnering with Acadia, the former AcadiaSoft, which changed its name and mission from a collateral management automation provider to an integrated risk management services vendor for derivatives transactions, officials say. The SmartStream TLM Collateral Management solution “will work alongside Acadia’s interest statements… Read More >>

Filed Under: Diversity, Digital Transformation, ESG, Securities Operations, Automation, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, General Ops, Performance Measurement, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, Back-Office, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Operational Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: Acadia, automation, back office, data management, Blackrock, collateral management, collateral optimization, SmartStream Technologies, Securities Operations

AcadiaSoft Acquires Quaternion

February 4, 2021 by Eugene Grygo

AcadiaSoft Acquires Quaternion

AcadiaSoft, a back-office collateral management services provider for uncleared derivatives, has acquired Quaternion Risk Management, a front-office, consulting and software provider, laying the groundwork for an integrated, real-time, risk management solution to come, officials say. The transaction will bolster AcadiaSoft’s risk mitigation offerings and is a response to the industry demand for more standardized risk services,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Automation, Data Management, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, Back-Office, Integration, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Derivatives, Operational Risk, Industry News Tagged With: Quaternion Risk Management, AcadiaSoft, collateral management, collateral optimization, collateral

DZ Bank Overhauls Collateral Allocation

October 17, 2016 by Eugene Grygo

DZ Bank Overhauls Collateral Allocation

DZ Bank’s Group Treasury division has gone live with a revamped collateral allocation system that has instituted a post-trade collateral optimization process to auto-collateralize margin calls and send suggestions of collateral substitutions, report officials from the German bank officials and consultancy Sapient Global Markets, which facilitated the overhaul. The project began with a proof of… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Automation, Derivatives Operations, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, FinTech Ops, Risk Management Tagged With: DZ Bank, automation, derivatives, Post-Trade Processing, collateral management, operational risk, Sapient GLobal Markets, collateral optimization

CloudMargin Sharpens Collateral Optimization Capabilities

April 7, 2016 by Eugene Grygo

CloudMargin Sharpens Collateral Optimization Capabilities

CloudMargin, a provider of web-based collateral and margin management services, reports that it has improved its collateral optimization capabilities to better serve the clearing needs of securities firms. The enhanced optimization combines CloudMargin’s capabilities to source inventory “on a client’s behalf direct from custodians via CloudMargin’s own SWIFT membership,” vendor officials say. Cloud-based collateral management… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Automation, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, FinTech Ops, Back-Office Tagged With: automation, Markit, OTC derivatives, SWIFT, settlement, cloud computing, clearing, STP, collateral management, straight through processing, collateral optimization, CloudMargin, BCBS-IOSCO

Risk Analytics Pioneer to Get $10M PE Infusion

November 16, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Risk Analytics Pioneer to Get $10M PE Infusion

Risk analytics vendor Hanweck Associates will be getting $10 million in private equity financing and a large part of that debt and equity package will help fund the vendor’s exploration of innovations for margin and collateral optimization. A New York-based private equity firm, The Argentum Group has secured the financing and will have a cooperative… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, FinTech Ops, Industry News, General Interest Tagged With: risk analytics, private equity, margin, collateral optimization, Hanweck Associates, private equity firm, The Argentum Group, International Securities Exchange (ISE), Eurex Group, Tom Ascher, International Securities Exchange Holdings, Volera, Options Clearing Corporation, post-trade risk management, Peter Armstrong, Triple Point Technology, Walter Barandiaran, Gerald Hanweck Jr.

Brandywine Deploys SunGard’s Apex Collateral System

March 9, 2015 by Ryan Boysen

Investment manager Brandywine Global has selected the Apex Collateral solution from SunGard Financial Systems to “help support its growing collateral management business,” according to a company statement. Some of Brandywine’s most pressing requirements when choosing the solutions were “the ability to comply with increased regulatory demands and improve the client experience by reducing counterparty risk,”… Read More >>

Filed Under: Collateral Management, Industry News, General Interest Tagged With: CFTC, Dodd-Frank, data management, compliance, operations, Apex, collateral optimization

4sight Hires Former Merrill Lynch MD

October 23, 2014 by Louis Chunovic

4sight Financial Software, a provider of software and consultancy services to the securities finance and collateral management markets, reports that it has hired Raymond Blokland as a senior consultant. Prior to joining 4sight, Blokland, with more than 20 years of financial markets experience, was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Previously, he… Read More >>

Filed Under: Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: collateral management, prime brokerage, collateral optimization, market connectivity, securities finance

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