Trading Technologies International (TT) intends to expand its reach into clearing and other middle-office technologies and services via its acquisition of ATEO SAS, a provider of post-trade solutions for listed derivatives, officials say. TT is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology platform provider to global capital markets. The financial terms of the transaction, which closed on Feb…. Read More >>
Citi & Wellington Explore the Disruptive Power of Tokens
Late last year, Citi, Wellington Management, WisdomTree, and DTCC officials conducted a proof of concept (POC) experiment to explore how tokenization could be applied to private funds and to test the capital markets capabilities of blockchain technology. “Tokenization is the process of issuing a digital representation of an asset on a blockchain,” according to a… Read More >>
TD Securities Taps SwapAgent for Bilateral Clearing
Clients of TD Securities looking for the clearing of bilateral derivative transactions can use the services of SwapAgent as the Canadian investment bank has gone live as a new member of the clearinghouse, officials say. SwapAgent, whose parent company is the LCH Group, offers processing, margining, and settlement services for non-cleared derivatives. “SwapAgent is the… Read More >>
A.I.’s Benefits for T+1 Are Within Reach
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has the potential to automate tasks and boost operational efficacy within post-trade operations impacted by the transition to T+1. Accenture calculates A.I. could deliver a 30 to 40 percent improvement in efficiency within post-trade operations impacted by the move from T+2 to T+1 in May for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Meanwhile,… Read More >>
NICE Actimize Applies Generative A.I. to New Solutions
NICE Actimize, a provider of financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions, has embraced generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) for three new solutions that target financial crime in ways intended to help overwhelmed financial crime and fraud teams at financial services firms, officials say. Generative A.I. are algorithms “that can be used to create new content, including… Read More >>
BNY Mellon Migrates Data & Analytics to Microsoft’s Azure
Custodian BNY Mellon and Microsoft are joining forces again to bring together Microsoft Azure cloud computing and BNY Mellon’s financial data and analytics capabilities, including an exploration of artificial intelligence (A.I.), officials say. The companies have worked together before “creating data, technology, and content solutions for investment managers on Microsoft Azure,” officials say. This latest… Read More >>
Helios Debuts Trade Execution Services
Helios, a quantitative asset management firm providing an outsourced chief investment officer service, is launching trade execution services that are intended to improve the client support that financial advisors can offer, officials say. The solution is “open to all registered investment advisors (RIAs) and advisors with GeoWealth access via their broker-dealer,” according to Helios. … Read More >>
Crypto FIGIs Debut in Time for Bitcoin ETFs
Bloomberg and Kaiko, a cryptocurrency data company, report that they have issued Financial Instrument Global Identifiers (FIGIs) for nearly 8,000 crypto assets and that FIGIs have been assigned to the cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded products (ETPs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hitting the financial markets now. Bloomberg and Kaiko began their collaboration with the first series of FIGIs… Read More >>
Broadridge Applies A.I. to the Post-Trade Lifecycle
Broadridge Financial Solutions is launching what it is calling “a holistic natural language interface” that will reach across the post-trade lifecycle to help operations staff members, analysts, and management teams interrogate and revamp operations via the capabilities of artificial intelligence (A.I.). This new capability has been branded OpsGPT and is based on Generative A.I. (GenA.I.)… Read More >>
Nominations Are Open for the 2024 FTF Awards!
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has launched the nomination process for the 2024 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition, which recognizes the operational excellence of professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, and industry bodies that had significant achievements in the 2023 calendar year. The winners of the FTF Awards competition are chosen by their peers in… Read More >>
