LSEG officials report that the company’s Paris-based clearing house, LCH SA, is working with cloud provider OVHcloud in an effort to support “enhanced operational resilience, strengthened security, greater scalability and velocity of change” for LCH SA’s services. OVHcloud, also known as OVH Groupe SA, is based in Roubaix, France, and offers public and private cloud… Read More >>
Time to Unify the SEC & CFTC?
Should the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) become a single, unified regulator? It’s not a new question, and recently I have been asking industry veterans if now is a good time to unite the regulators as a way of achieving regulatory efficiencies. But Timothy G. Massad,… Read More >>
Millennium bcp Takes On FRTB & Market Risk
Officials at Millennium bcp say they are bolstering the financial services firm’s compliance with the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) and market risk management capabilities through a strategic partnership with Murex, a trading, risk management, and processing solutions provider. “Under this agreement, Millennium bcp will implement Murex’s MX.3 platform to strengthen its market… Read More >>
Clearwater Analytics Embeds GenAI Into Its Ops Platform
Clearwater Analytics (CWAN), a cloud-native provider of an integrated, front-to-back office operations platform for institutional investors, has unveiled CWAN GenAI, a “production-ready” layer embedded with generative artificial intelligence capabilities intended to improve investment management, risk management, reporting, and securities operations across more than $10 trillion in institutional assets, officials say. CWAN clients can access CWAN… Read More >>
TRG Screen’s A.I. Feature Deepens Data Cost Insights
TRG Screen, a provider of market data and subscription cost management technology, has released Xmon AI Assist, a capability intended to bring conversational analytics to market data cost management, officials say. Xmon is a reference data cost and usage monitoring solution that offers “visibility into consumption patterns, cost drivers and vendor billing,” officials add. The… Read More >>
Canada’s ATB Financial Taps Murex for Compliance
ATB Financial officials report that they have “successfully met Canada’s updated derivatives reporting rules, known as the 2025 Canada Rewrite, through the MXSaaS solution” from Murex. The MXSaaS offering facilitates the integration of the MX.3 platform into the cloud, where dedicated Murex experts fully manage it, according to officials. The platform is intended to help… Read More >>
FSB Warns Against Gaps in Digital Assets Regulation
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is pushing jurisdictions to make their regulation of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets more consistent with the FSB’s framework and to follow new recommendations aimed at facilitating a cohesive oversight of the global crypto-asset market and preventing regulatory arbitrage. A new peer review progress report from the FSB cites “significant… Read More >>
Citi Takes Aim at Asset Servicing Woes via SEP
Citi’s post-trade platform, Citi Investor Services, has a new feature for asset servicing — Single Event Processing (SEP) technology — a development that Citi officials are calling “a significant step” for real-time asset servicing, prompting the bank to say that “the majority of its custody flows” will be processed via SEP in 2026. In fact,… Read More >>
SFP Group Adopts Broadridge’s Front-to-Back Platform
Swiss real estate asset manager Swiss Finance & Property Group (SFP Group) is using an investment management technology platform from Broadridge Financial Solutions to oversee more than $15 billion in assets under management. The platform is based on a software-as-a-system (SaaS) platform that is intended to help SFP Group prepare for more growth with a… Read More >>
FICC Seeks SEC Approval for Triparty Clearing for Treasuries
The Fixed Income Clearing Corp. (FICC) may be able to offer triparty clearing in time for expanded U.S. Treasury clearing rules via a new offering, dubbed the ACS Triparty Service, within its Agent Clearing Service (ACS) capabilities. However, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must agree to a rule change requested by FICC officials. “As… Read More >>
