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Why Aren’t Hedge Funds Already at T+0 Reporting?

October 20, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

(Editor’s note: Scott Price, who has been head of business development and client management for North America for Maitland International Holdings since April, says that fund administrators could be doing more to help hedge funds achieve a shorter time frames for reporting. This includes even those hedge fund firms that lack an IT infrastructure. Price… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Data Management, Middle-Office, Ops Automation, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Integration, Opinion, Q&As, Performance Measurement Tagged With: automation, back office, FIX, fund administrator, Hedge fund, Maitland International Holdings, middle office, portfolio accounting, reference data management, T+0, T+1, T+2, transparency

‘I think there’s a big focus on back office now’

August 4, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Andy Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Sand Hill East, a Basking Ridge, N.J.-based, soup-to-nuts incubator for financial technology startups of all kinds, including post-trade vendors such as Alpha Omega Financial Systems. The San Francisco-based startup is pushing for the post-trade use of the FIX protocol to eliminate manual Ops systems and to deliver… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Industry News, Middle-Office, Ops Automation, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards, Opinion, Q&As Tagged With: FIX, Omgeo, Sand Hill East, T+2

Sell Side Adapts to FIX for Confirmations, Affirmations

May 19, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

It appears that sell-side firms are becoming more comfortable with the extension of the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading protocol for post-trade purposes as 75 percent of broker/dealer respondents in a new survey say they use FIX for confirmation/affirmation workflows. The FIX Trading Community, the standards body for the protocol, conducted the Global Post-Trade Survey… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Data Management, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards Tagged With: affirmations, allocations, CFTC, compliance, confirmations, data management, FIX, Post-Trade Processing, SEC

FIX Fails to Catch On in Post-Trade Operations: Panel

April 17, 2015 by Ryan Boysen

By now, most financial services firms are fairly familiar with the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading protocol for front-office concerns like trade execution. But, thus far, the messaging standard has failed to catch on in the back office even though there is growing evidence that extending the protocol makes sense. The incumbent protocol needs… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Data Management, Middle-Office, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards Tagged With: FIX, operations, post trade, speed

Is FIX the ‘Stretch-Through Processing’ Standard?

February 24, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Is FIX the ‘Stretch-Through Processing’ Standard?

The FIX Trading Community, the keeper of the groundbreaking Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for electronic trading, is widening the reach of the language via a best practices document intended to help firms automate the initial public offering (IPO) process. The FIX group reports that buy-side firms made it known via the FIX Global Buy-Side… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Middle-Office, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Standards, Minding the Gap Tagged With: American Century Investments, corporate actions, FIX, IPO, Scott Atwell, SEC

FTF Panel: U.S. Markets Should Move to T+0

October 24, 2014 by FTF News

A panelist at FTF’s ReCon New York event on Thursday is calling for the U.S. securities industry to move to a T+0 settlement cycle rather than the incremental move to T+2, citing the truism that nothing good happens between trade date and settlement. That’s a phrase heard often from operations managers, and it was heard… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Settlement Tagged With: Bloomberg, DTCC, FIX, FTF, Omgeo, ReCon, Reconciliations, settlement cycle, SWIFT, T+0, T+2, T+3, TCP/IP

SS&C: Streamline FIX & SWIFT Messaging

October 8, 2014 by Eugene Grygo

(Editor’s Note: Before SWIFT’s SIBOS conference and exhibition in Boston got underway, FTF News reached out to key vendors working in the post-trade operations space to gather their expectations for the financial messaging cooperative. Bob Shaw, director, electronic trade communications, SS&C Technologies, has responded to our questions. SIBOS was held at the Boston Convention &… Read More >>

Filed Under: FinTech Trends, Standards, Opinion Tagged With: Bob Shaw, FIX, MT202, MT210, MT910, MT920, SIBOS 2014, SS&C Technology, SSCNet, STP, straight through processing, SWIFT, SWIFT FIN, T+1, T+2

HITE Asset Management Sidesteps Vendor Hassles

October 8, 2014 by Ryan Boysen

When James Jampel founded HITE Asset Management in 2004 with $1 million in start-up capital, tinkering with back-office systems and processes wasn’t exactly at the top of his to-do list. Jampel and the employees who later joined HITE wanted to focus on one thing: investing. It’s fitting, then, that a decade later HITE has become… Read More >>

Filed Under: General Interest, FinTech Trends, Integration, Industry News Tagged With: Bob Moitoso, EMS, Eze Castle Software, FIX, front-to-back solution, fund administration, GlobeOps, Hedge fund, HITE Asset Management, James Jampel, OMS, SS&C Technologies, vendor

A New Warrior in the FIX-for-Post-Trade Crusade

September 8, 2014 by Eugene Grygo

A New Warrior in the FIX-for-Post-Trade Crusade

Meet Alpha Omega Financial Systems, a new warrior in the FIX-for-post-trade crusade. The San Francisco-based startup is driven by the belief that the FIX protocol will eliminate manual systems and deliver new efficiencies to operations. The company argues that firms can cut their post-trade costs for equity transactions by 30% if they extend their FIX-based… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Middle-Office, Ops Automation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards, Minding the Gap Tagged With: Alpha Omega, Financial Information eXchange, FIX, FIX Trading Community, Ignatius John, OMS, straight through processing

Bitcoin Exchange Using FIX API

August 18, 2014 by Ryan Boysen

Coinsetter, a low latency bitcoin exchange and electronic communication network (ECN), is the first such company to launch an application programming interface (API) for the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading communications protocol, according to a Coinsetter statement. Coinsetter’s FIX 4.4 API allows its customers to connect existing trading systems to a consolidated source of… Read More >>

Filed Under: FinTech Trends, Standards Tagged With: API, bitcoin, coinsetter, electronic communication network, Financial Information eXchange, FIX, REST, WebSockets

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