NEW YORK CITY — A mix of disruptive and established technology providers have made the winner’s circle of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards (the FTF Awards), which Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is revealing today. For instance, for the Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative, the winner is Synechron while TCS BaNCS and its Quartz effort… Read More >>
CME Group Launches Data Insights for Hedge Funds
Benchmarking Tool Debuts for Hedge Funds & Others CME Group, a provider of derivatives marketplaces, reports the launch of ENSO Data Insights, which it characterizes as “a benchmarking tool which leverages ENSO’s alternative data set to help customers make more informed investment decisions.” ENSO Data Insights “provides hedge funds, asset managers and banks … access to… Read More >>
Deutsche Bank Clients Using LCH CDSClear
First German Bank to Use CDSClear Deutsche Bank is the first German bank to offer its clients clearing via CDSClear, and asset management firms MEAG and Union Investment are clearing European and U.S. credit default swap (CDS) instruments via global clearinghouse group LCH. “Offering clients access to LCH CDSClear will provide them with more… Read More >>
SEB to Use DTCC Repository for SFTR Compliance
SEB Extends DTCC Agreement via Global Trade Repository Swedish financial group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has decided to use the Global Trade Repository (GTR) services of the DTCC to meet regulatory obligations under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) that are likely to take effect in April 2020. The decision is an extension of SEB’s… Read More >>
DTCC Proposes Post-Trade Framework for Token Platforms
Post-trade systems and services provider DTCC is acknowledging that an emerging disruptive trend — tokenized securities — may soon need a legal and regulatory framework formulated via regulators, trading venues, and the post-trade operations staffs of industry participants. The DTCC is also acknowledging that because of its unique position in the securities operations industry, it… Read More >>
RJO Affiliate Launches OTC Agricultural Structured Products Group
New RJO Group Will Use Proprietary Software Officials at futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) have announced that an affiliate R.J. O’Brien Financial has launched an over-the-counter (OTC) Agricultural Structured Products Group that will target commercial agricultural companies across the globe – a first for RJO. The bilateral OTC initiative will… Read More >>
CEO of Blockchain Vendor Digital Asset Steps Down
Digital Asset Board Chairman to Be Acting CEO Digital Asset, a provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT), reports that Blythe Masters, the company’s CEO since 2015, will step down, for unspecified personal reasons. AG Gangadhar, who joined the company’s board of directors in April of this year, has been named board chairman and will serve… Read More >>
FlexTrade to Apply Corvil’s Analytics to Client Performance
Corvil to Help FlexTrade Users Optimize Executions FlexTrade, a multi-asset execution and order management systems (OMS) vendor, is using Corvil Analytics as a way to improve client performance across FlexTrade’s trading solutions, officials say. The combination will enable FlexTrade to provide clients with Corvil’s machine-time analytics, which allows FlexTrade to identify areas for optimization that… Read More >>
DTCC Service Targets Outdated Communication for Mutual Funds
(Editor’s note: MF Info Xchange, an on-demand, real time, centralized communications service for the mutual fund industry from the DTCC’s Wealth Management Services (WMS) division, is slated to launch Nov. 30. Unveiled in October, the new service from the post-trade market infrastructure provider is intended to “facilitate and centralize the delivery and receipt of time-critical… Read More >>
Brevan Howard Uses AcadiaSoft for IM Management
A Major Buy-Side Firm Embraces AcadiaSoft’s IMEM AcadiaSoft, a provider of risk and collateral management services for the non-cleared derivatives market, reports that Brevan Howard has been added to the users of AcadiaSoft Hub’s Initial Margin Exposure Manager (IMEM). As one of the first buy-side firms that falls within the scope of Phase Three of… Read More >>
