Ipreo Pulls Together an Industry-Led Effort Ipreo, a market intelligence and workflow solutions vendor, is embracing the FIX Protocol to help end-users optimize and streamline fixed income deal workflow. The results of Ipreo’s efforts is the industry-led initiative, the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which has the capability to electronically submit fixed income orders directly to… Read More >>
Banks Still Not Ready for FRTB Challenge
Although larger banks are making progress in laying the foundation for the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) requirements, there is still a lot of work to be done, according to a new study by London-based business management consultancy, InteDelta, sponsored by reference data vendor Asset Control. This may not come as a surprise… Read More >>
BrokerTec Europe Acquires Italian CLOB Platform
BrokerTec Takes Majority Stake in e-MID Officials at BrokerTec Europe, NEX Group’s global electronic fixed income trading platform, say the firm is acquiring a majority stake in e-MID SIM SpA (e-MID), acquiring the Italian electronic central limit order book (CLOB) platform for interbank deposits and overnight indexed swaps (OIS). The acquisition, which was just approved… Read More >>
DTCC Declares Omgeo Alert an SSI Utility
Post-trade infrastructure services provider DTCC has designated its recently enhanced Omgeo Alert repository for standing settlement instruction (SSI) data as a de facto “single and centralized” SSI utility. DTCC officials timed the announcement to coincide with SIFMA’s T+2 shorter settlement conference in New York today. The utility approach to SSI data management began about three… Read More >>
Asset Managers to Ramp Up Compliance Capabilities
New global regulations and volatile market liquidity are prompting a majority (56 percent) of surveyed asset managers and asset owners to increase their technology and operational capabilities over the next year, in order to better manage financial and other data needed to meet regulatory compliance deadlines. That’s the top-line takeaway from “Let’s Talk Liquidity: Opportunities… Read More >>
SGBT to Implement Duco Cube’s Hosted Services
Societe Generale Bank & Trust (SGBT) will be using a data management platform from Duco to automate securities, cash and internal system-to-system reconciliations processes, according to bank and vendor officials. SGBT, a Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Societe Generale, will be using the Duco Cube hosted platform “to control complex data using light-touch, self-service technology,” according to… Read More >>
CloudMargin & SmartDX Tackle the Variation Margin Rule
Variation Margin Rule Takes Effect March 1 CloudMargin, at web-based collateral and margin management solution, and SmartDX, which provide trade and relationship document generation, collaboration and processing announced that they have partnered to address the daily variation margin (VM) rule that goes into effect March 1 in the European Union, United Kingdom, United States and… Read More >>
SEI Picks Milestone Group Platform for OCIO Business
SEI, a provider of asset management and investment operations solutions, has decided to use a multi-asset software platform from the Milestone Group to bolster its outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) efforts. OCIO services vary by provider and can include: asset allocation advice; manager monitoring, research and selection; trust and custody services; and administration services, according… Read More >>
Convergex to Deploy AWS-Based Ancoa Monitoring
Ancoa’s Platform Relies Upon Amazon Web Services (AWS) Convergex, an agency global brokerage, is using the market surveillance platform from vendor Ancoa to monitor trading activity across its domestic U.S. and international cash equities and options brokerage businesses to bolster compliance with U.S. and international market abuse regulations. The cloud-based deployment uses Amazon Web Services (AWS),… Read More >>
Eagle, Donnelley Alliance Targets New SEC Reporting
Eagle Investment Systems and Donnelley Financial Solutions have formed a strategic alliance to create an integrated offering that will help firms comply with new monthly and annual SEC reporting rules that require the gathering of “census-type” and portfolio data about mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Specifically, the alliance will graft Donnelley’s financial reporting and… Read More >>
