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DTCC Bolsters Support for SFTR Reporting via Partnerships

June 8, 2018 by Eugene Grygo

DTCC Bolsters Support for SFTR Reporting via Partnerships

Financial services firms are gearing up for the reporting requirements of the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR), and the DTCC is partnering with EquiLend, Trax, IHS Markit and Pirum to improve its global trade reporting capabilities before the SFTR rules take effect by the end of next year. Even though SFTR originated with the European… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Data Management, General Ops, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Integration, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Governance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR), FinTech Ops, Industry News, General Ops, EquiLend, Pirum, DTCC, middle office, back office, data management, risk management, Standards, regulation, clearing, Regulation & Compliance, integration, governance, regulatory reporting, collateral management, Trax, Securities Operations, Derivatives Operations, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), derivatives processing, IHS Markit

New SmartStream Team to Investigate AI for Ops

June 8, 2018 by FTF News

New SmartStream Team to Investigate AI for Ops

SmartStream Creates ‘Innovations Team’   SmartStream Technologies, which characterizes itself as a financial transaction lifecycle management provider, reports that its new “innovations team” is “working with financial institutions to optimise workflows, using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and blockchain technologies, in the areas of reconciliations, cash management and fees and expense management.” The new… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Automation, General Ops, Reconciliations, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Integration, Risk Management, Governance, Human Interest Tagged With: FinTech Ops, Human Interest, General Ops, ARQA, automation, isda, back office, risk management, regulation, BNP Paribas, clearing, Fidessa, integration, governance, collateral management, SmartStream, Reconciliations, Securities Operations, Derivatives Operations, derivatives processing

CME Group to Buy NEX Group for $5.5 Billion

March 29, 2018 by Eugene Grygo

CME Group to Buy NEX Group for $5.5 Billion

Derivatives exchange operator CME Group Inc. is set to acquire NEX Group plc for an estimated $5.5 billion and, if all goes well, the combined provider of transaction processing across futures, cash and over-the-counter (OTC) instruments will be able to offer many post-trade capabilities beyond clearing services. The CME Group encompasses: CME Clearing; the Chicago… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Automation, Buy-Side, Data Management, Settlement and T+2, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Back-Office, Risk Management, Derivatives, Governance, Industry News, M&A Tagged With: FinTech Ops, Industry News, Settlement and T+2, Breaking News, Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), CME Globex electronic trading platform; Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT); Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBOT); New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX); Commodity Exchange, Inc. (COMEX), automation, derivatives, back office, data management, risk management, clearing, CME Group, Buy-side, M&A, governance, collateral management, Terry Duffy, CME Clearing, Securities Operations, Derivatives Operations, derivatives processing, Michael Spencer, NEX Group

New Collateral Management Strategies Require New Building Blocks

December 7, 2017 by Eugene Grygo

New Collateral Management Strategies Require New Building Blocks

Post-crisis regulation and competitive market conditions have forever changed the collateral management process for securities trading firms. The push to develop new collateral optimization strategies has often uncovered major problems within a firm’s own systems and processes. Most firms have had to move quickly to revamp their internal systems and craft new collateral management operations… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Automation, Blockchain/DLT, Data Management, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, Risk Management, Regulation & Compliance, Governance, Regulatory Reporting Tagged With: Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), Scott Linden, Diana Shapiro, blockchain/DLT, Wilmington Trust, Christopher Surh, Jeffrey Bandman, automation, derivatives, back office, data management, risk management, outsourcing, MiFID II, Mifir, regulation, clearing, Regulation & Compliance, governance, regulatory reporting, collateral management, Securities Operations, Derivatives Operations, derivatives processing, Lisa Cavallari, Russell Investments

Squawker’s Equity Finance Platform Tackles Manual Processes

April 26, 2017 by Eugene Grygo

Squawker’s Equity Finance Platform Tackles Manual Processes

London-based vendor Squawker’s Equity Finance platform has completed its launch phase and has been deployed at six of the top 10 global investment banks in large part because the platform provides an alternative for investment banks that usually book trades via manual processes and over-the-counter (OTC) against interdealer brokers, officials say. Three more major banks… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Regulatory Reporting Tagged With: central counterparty clearinghouses, Squawker’s Equity Finance, automation, derivatives, OTC derivatives, MiFID II, Mifir, straight through processing, trade reporting, Panmure Gordon, Derivatives Operations, manual processing, CCPs, over the counter derivatives

Tullett Prebon to Buy Creditex Voice Brokerage

August 2, 2016 by Eugene Grygo

Tullett Prebon to Buy Creditex Voice Brokerage

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is selling the hybrid, U.S. voice-broking business operations of Creditex to London-based interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, which recently agreed to acquire similar businesses from competitor ICAP. Officials at ICE say they will retain the electronically traded markets and systems, post-trade connectivity platforms and intellectual property… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Derivatives Processing, Industry News, M&A Tagged With: ICAP, turrets, Derivatives Operations, Creditex, Tullett Prebon, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), voice broking

Credit Suisse to Leverage FIS Utility

June 2, 2016 by Eugene Grygo

Credit Suisse to Leverage FIS Utility

Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse will be outsourcing its post-trade futures and cleared over-the-counter derivatives operations and technology to banking and payments technology vendor FIS in order to leverage the cost savings of a utility model, bank officials say. The Derivatives Utility from FIS targets market participants “including futures commission merchants (FCMs)” that want cost-efficient… Read More >>

Filed Under: Outsourcing, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Derivatives Processing, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Middle-Office Tagged With: derivatives, middle office, back office, OTC derivatives, outsourcing, Post-Trade Processing, futures, Credit Suisse, derivatives clearing, FIS, FCMs, Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Utility

ESMA Fines DTCC for Trade Repository Shortcomings

April 4, 2016 by Eugene Grygo

ESMA Fines DTCC for Trade Repository Shortcomings

Post-trade infrastructure services provider DTCC has been fined nearly $73,000 by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for alleged failures to properly offer “direct and immediate access to derivatives trading data” for nine months in 2014. The regulator’s fine of €64,000 (equivalent to 72,907.15 given a 1 EUR = 1.13917 USD rate) is the… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives Tagged With: DTCC, EMIR, OTC derivatives, ESMA, trade repository, European Securities and Markets Authority, Derivatives Operations, derivatives regulation, counterparties

Blockchain Is Old News for European Markets

March 24, 2016 by Lynn Strongin Dodds

Blockchain Is Old News for European Markets

Blockchain may be creating the most buzz in financial services circles today but it has been quietly making a noise in Europe for the past 20 years. London-based consultancy Z/Yen created one of the first prototypes — a decentralized electronic ledger — for a client who wanted a shared database to provide an indelible and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Blockchain/DLT, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, FinTech Ops, Back-Office Tagged With: back office, reconciliation, settlement, clearing, blockchain, post trade, Derivatives Operations, SETL, Michael Mainelli, Z/Yen

CFTC Targets the Op Risk of High-Speed Trading

December 1, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

CFTC Targets the Op Risk of High-Speed Trading

The CFTC last week unanimously proposed new rules to cut risks related to high-speed trading via the algorithms used by designated contract markets (DCMs). Some analysts say the rules will give the regulator more tools to deal with this key aspect of derivatives trading. However, others caution that the regulator should not put forth rules… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, General Ops, Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives Tagged With: CFTC, Dodd-Frank, Timothy Massad, operational risk, Kevin McPartland, derivatives trading, John Needham, financial regulation, Needham Consulting, Derivatives Operations, derivatives regulation, high-frequn, algorithmic trading, Regulation AT, Greenwhich Associated

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