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North America’s Rocky Road to T+1 Begins

May 28, 2024 by FTF News

North America’s Rocky Road to T+1 Begins

Like it or not, North American firms are getting new plumbing for settlement. Settlement within the shorter time frame of the trading day plus another day, or T+1, is becoming a reality for North American firms, starting with those firms in Canada and Mexico, and with a nod to South America, Argentina, on Monday, May 27,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, FX Operations, Hedge Fund Operations, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Sell-Side, Settlement, T+1 Settlement, Digital Transformation, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, Buy-side, DTCC, ICI, Securities Operations, settlement, Sifma, Standards, SWIFT, T+1 settlement, T+1 transition, US Securities and Exchange Commission, wall street

Firms Fortify Ops for the Countdown to T+1

May 16, 2024 by Faye Kilburn

Firms Fortify Ops for the Countdown to T+1

A little over a year ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced May 28, 2024, as the deadline for North America’s transit from T+2 to T+1 trade settlement. Now, with the crossover mere days away, the securities industry is racing against the clock to finalize preparations. This week, the DTCC published an update… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Sell-Side, Settlement, T+1 Settlement Tagged With: automation, back office, DTC, DTCC, T+1, T+1 settlement, T+1 transition

T+1 Self-Affirmation Rates Below Expectations

May 7, 2024 by Faye Kilburn

T+1 Self-Affirmation Rates Below Expectations

The DTCC is urging investment managers and custodians to collaborate on technology and automation solutions after its latest statistics on the industry’s affirmation progress revealed a disparity in affirmation rates between those using manual processes and those utilizing centralized matching tools. With the implementation of a T+1 settlement cycle in the U.S. less than a… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, FX Operations, Hedge Fund Operations, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Sell-Side, Settlement, T+1 Settlement, Standards, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, clearing and settlement trends, compliance, data management, DTC, DTCC, ISSA, Securities Operations, standing settlement instruction, STP Investment Services, T+1 settlement, T+1 transition

DTCC Pilot Pushes Automation for Corporate Actions Processing

March 7, 2024 by FTF News

DTCC Pilot Pushes Automation for Corporate Actions Processing

DTCC officials have just announced that they are forging ahead with a two-phased pilot program to bring more automation to corporate actions (CA) processing. The effort is intended to deliver “new efficiencies and capabilities that address decades-long asset services challenges around the sourcing of corporate actions announcements,” according to the DTCC. “The pilot, which includes… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Operational Risk, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, corporate actions, corproate actions processing, DTCC, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)

Citi & Wellington Explore the Disruptive Power of Tokens

March 5, 2024 by Eugene Grygo

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 >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Hedge Fund Operations, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Data Science, Digital Asset Custody, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards, Industry News Tagged With: back office, blockchain, Citi, compliance, data management, distributed ledger technology (DLT), DLT, DTCC, operational risk, Securities Operations, settlement, wall street, Wellingtong

CME and DTCC Launch Treasury-Futures Cross-Margining

January 29, 2024 by FTF News

CME and DTCC Launch Treasury-Futures Cross-Margining

Derivatives exchanges company CME Group and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) have gone live with their enhanced cross-margining arrangement, intended to facilitate capital efficiencies for “clearing members that trade and clear both U.S. Treasury securities and CME Group Interest Rate futures.” “With the new arrangement implemented, eligible clearing members of CME Group and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Exchanges, Derivatives Operations, Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Back Office, Industry News, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance Tagged With: CME Group, collateral management, derivatives processing, DTCC

Cyber Threats Seen as a Major Risk for 2024

December 14, 2023 by Eugene Grygo

Cyber Threats Seen as a Major Risk for 2024

Securities firms are foreseeing cybersecurity risks as one of their top concerns for next year as cybers-attacks remain one of their top five risks as revealed in an annual Systemic Risk Barometer Survey done by DTCC officials. Cybersecurity concerns constitute one of the top five risks identified in every survey since 2013 when the DTCC… Read More >>

Filed Under: General Interest, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Enforcement, Cybersecurity, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting Tagged With: automation, back office, cyber fraud, cyber threats, cyber-attack, cybercrime, Cybersecurity, DTCC, Securities Operations, Standards, wall street

DTCC’s OTC Service Tracks North American Derivatives Data

November 13, 2023 by Eugene Grygo

DTCC’s OTC Service Tracks North American Derivatives Data

DTCC has launched a cloud-based service that offers over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transaction data — dubbed OTC Direct Connect — in near real-time so that investment firms can evaluate faster the risk factors of quickly moving markets, according to the post-trade infrastructure provider. The new service, which facilitates access to data about OTC derivatives transactions in… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Securities Operations, Data Management, Operational Risk, Risk Management, Digital Transformation, Back-Office, KYC, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, collateral management, data management, DTCC, risk management, Securities Operations

DTCC Embraces Digital Asset Ops via Securrency Acquisition

October 19, 2023 by Eugene Grygo

DTCC Embraces Digital Asset Ops via Securrency Acquisition

Post-trade infrastructure provider DTCC is acquiring a tokenization infrastructure company Securrency Inc., led by CEO Nadine Chakar, creating a bridge to the “acceptance and adoption of digital assets” in securities operations, DTCC officials say. After the acquisition is finalized, Securrency, whose offerings include its Capital Markets Platform, Compliance Aware Token Framework, and Digital Asset Composer,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, T+1 Settlement, Governance, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Standards, KYC, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, blockchain, compliance, data management, DTCC, Securities Operations, tokenization, tokenized securities, wall street

T+1 Will Create a Complex Choreography for Ops

October 18, 2023 by Joseph Radigan

T+1 Will Create a Complex Choreography for Ops

When the North American securities industry starts settling trades the day after they’re executed in May 2024, it will be the culmination of a process dating back at least 30 years. Shortly after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cut the trade settlement cycle in 1993 to the third business day following trade execution (T+3)… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Settlement, T+1 Settlement, Governance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: clearing, compliance, DTCC, ICI, operational risk, SEC, Securities Operations, settlement, Sifma, Standards, T+1, T+1 settlement, T+1 transition, wall street

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