A new collaboration between SimCorp and JPMorgan’s Securities Services group is intended to help their mutual clients share intraday and multi-asset data — a key part of a new effort to bring interoperability and transparency to SimCorp’s systems and the investment bank’s pre-trade, post-trade, trading, and treasury solutions. This tighter integration between front-and-middle office operations… Read More >>
Do More to Stop Financial Crime: Study
More investment in better technology. Not surprisingly, that is one of the major improvements financial services firms need to make. Why, exactly? To “reduce the sector’s exposure to such monetary outlays as the aggregate $14.1 billion in penalties paid for non-compliance in 2020,” according to a May 2021 study by the ACAMS organization and Oliver… Read More >>
DTCC Fights Fragmented Clearing for Treasuries
Fragmented clearing for the U.S. Treasury market is on the minds of those at the DTCC, the industry’s major post-trade services and infrastructure provider, and they have released a white paper that they hope will spark a discussion about this contentious issue. There is even a suggestion that there might be a need for a… Read More >>
CME Slated to Oversee Forward-Looking SOFR Rates
ARRC Wants CME Group to Serve as Administrator The push to replace LIBOR advanced with the news that derivatives exchanges operator CME Group is in the lead to administer forward-looking Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) term rates. The Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC), which oversees SOFR, has picked CME Group “following a robust request for proposals… Read More >>
Can Listed Derivatives Give Sustainability a Boost?
In case anyone thought otherwise, exchanges for derivative instruments do have a big role to play in facilitating sustainability, according to a joint report recently released by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative (SSE). The joint report, “How Derivatives Exchanges can Promote Sustainable Development — An Action… Read More >>
FIX Group Helps Mold Digital Asset Trading Standards
FIX Trading Community Partners with Global DCA The FIX Trading Community, a standards body for transacting securities via the electronic Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol, will be working with the Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association (Global DCA) to create standards for trading digital assets, officials confirm. Both groups “recognize that their complementary efforts can… Read More >>
T+1 Gets a Nod from SEC Chair Gensler
Gary Gensler, the new chair of the SEC, is provisionally endorsing the industry effort to shorten trade settlement time from T+2 to T+1 as evidenced by his recent testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, overseen by Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). “I believe shortening the standard settlement cycle could reduce costs and risks… Read More >>
Capitolis Taps State Street for Key Post
Capitolis Hires James Reilly A software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, Capitolis has hired industry veteran James Reilly from State Street and appointed him as its new head of equity and total return swaps (TRS) funding solutions, officials say. Reilly has two decades of capital markets and financial technology experience. The Capitolis networking software helps firms find liquidity… Read More >>
SIFMA, ICI and DTCC Launch T+1 Outreach
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the Investment Company Institute (ICI), and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) are reaching out to financial services firms to gather more information for a new push to shorten the U.S. securities settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1, and they are aiming to complete their information… Read More >>
AllianceBernstein Jolts Corporate Bond Trading via A.I.
Asset manager AllianceBernstein applied artificial intelligence (A.I.) to a corporate bond block trade transaction and found that the effort yielded far greater access to liquidity than conducting the transaction over the phone. The firm used a patented protocol, dubbed RFX, that uses A.I. technology and is part of corporate bond trading platform from LTX, a… Read More >>
