Financial technology provider FIS Global and post-trade solutions provider OSTTRA have launched a partnership aimed at yielding new avenues of transparency to clients via real-time clearing status views into the post-trade lifecycle of exchange-traded derivatives (ETD), officials say. “Through the partnership, the OSTTRA network of investment management clients will benefit from receiving a real-time clearing… Read More >>
Wedbush Futures Embraces Managed Services for Derivatives Ops
Wedbush Futures, a non-bank, U.S. futures commission merchant (FCM), is embracing the managed services mode of the FIS middle- and back-office software that it’s already using for post-trade processing, a move that the firm hopes will yield operational efficiencies, streamline regulatory compliance and application upgrades, and free up resources for growing the business and servicing… Read More >>
Firms Face Cutting-Edge & Conventional IT Challenges in 2018
(Editor’s note: This tumultuous year is winding down but there’s every reason to think that securities operations will continue to make leaps and bounds next year especially when it comes to cutting-edge IT. Erica Borghi (née Choinski), chair of the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC), and vice president of Fintech Risk at… Read More >>
Time for a Giant Leap Forward for ETD Ops?
(Editor’s note: Industry veteran David Pearson, head of post-trade strategy for electronic execution vendor Fidessa, recently took time out of his schedule to answer questions from FTF News. Pearson’s position requires him to provide “innovating new business ideas across Fidessa’s global buy- and sell-side community,” according to his profile. He offers input into the business… Read More >>
