Murex & Duco to Offer End-To-End Recs Solution Duco, a provider of self-service reconciliation services, and Murex, a provider of trading, risk and processing processes for treasury and capital markets, report that they will jointly provide clients with a “comprehensive data reconciliation solution enabling improved automation and straight through processing across a range of asset… Read More >>
Deutsche Bank Resolves Spoofing & Swaps Data Cases
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission reports the settlement of two enforcement orders involving Deutsche Bank. In one, the bank “resolved federal court charges stemming from alleged violations of various swap data reporting and other regulatory violations,” the CFTC says. In the second enforcement action, the CFTC “issued an administrative order against Deutsche Bank Securities Inc…. Read More >>
IPC Collaborates with Digital Reasoning & OpenFin
IPC, a trading communication and networking solutions vendor, is working with two cutting-edge technology providers — Digital Reasoning and OpenFin — in an effort to help financial services firms take steps to update legacy IT infrastructures and improve their productivity. The latest collaboration is with Digital Reasoning, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) solutions provider. The new… Read More >>
Liquidnet Hires from Goldman Sachs
Ex-Goldman MD Is New Head of Equities Tech Liquidnet, a block liquidity and investment network services provider, reports that it has named Sujay Telang as its new head of equities technology. Telang is a former Goldman Sachs managing director and an electronic trading executive, the vendor notes. Liquidnet officials call their new hire the “latest… Read More >>
Task Force Takes On Global Post-Trade Woes
The Bank of England is setting up a task force to implement the recommendations of a special panel that focused last year on the $20 billion spent annually on a “patchwork of manual or outdated technological processes” that support post-trade operations at firms across the globe. The Post‑Trade Technology Market Practitioner Panel of the U.K.’s… Read More >>
Apifiny Launches Blockchain-based Settlement Network
‘Roxe’ Pitched as a New Way to Clear & Settle Apifiny, a San Francisco-based global transfer network services provider, has officially debuted a settlement network based on blockchain technology, dubbed Roxe, that has been designed for “instant global clearing and settlement of payments and remittances, traditional assets, and digital assets,” according to the vendor…. Read More >>
ISITC’s Workaround for SWIFT & Negative Trading Prices
The Derivatives Working Group of ISITC, a securities industry standards group, is helping to spotlight a problem that has gotten lost in the shuffle of a pandemic and sudden recession. Essentially, how do users of the SWIFT financial messaging network process negative trading prices on commodity futures? “The effort was spurred by recent market event… Read More >>
JPMorgan & Bloomberg Link Custodial Support to OMS
Bloomberg Works With JPMorgan Securities Services Data integration and “frictionless” workflows are the main goals of a new collaboration between JPMorgan’s Securities Services and Bloomberg. The news and market data vendor is working with the services provider business of JPMorgan to offer buy-side firms a new integration that will allow them to work from the… Read More >>
BrokerTec & triResolve Push to Advance Repo Automation
Fixed income electronic trading platform BrokerTec has joined forces with derivatives infrastructure services vendor TriOptima to offer more automation across the mostly manual lifecycle of a repo trade, officials say. The intention is to improve the repo trade workflow, Raf Pritchard, head of triResolve at CME Group, tells FTF News. The triResolve group is part… Read More >>
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Target Margining Rules
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Begin Collaboration OpenGamma, which characterizes itself as a margin optimization provider, reports a new collaboration with IHS Markit, which characterizes itself as a provider of critical securities information, analytics and solutions. The vendors are jointly offering a system for mutual clients looking to reduce the cost of margin management. Their offering… Read More >>
