Timed for the SWIFT Sibos exposition and conference this week in London, SmartStream Technologies has launched a cloud-based offering, SmartStream Air, that the vendor says reconciles complex sets of data in seconds with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The new offering, developed via the SmartStream Innovation Lab, can “auto-configure reconciliations of any data… Read More >>
World Bank Signs Licensing Agreement with SimCorp
World Bank Deployment to Cover Middle and Back Offices SimCorp, which provides investment management products and services to the financial services industry, reports that the World Bank has licensed SimCorp Dimension, the vendor’s investment management system. The agreement was signed in late 2018, per SimCorp. Under the agreement, the World Bank has licensed SimCorp’s “middle… Read More >>
SWIFT & Microsoft Collaborate to Bring Payments to Azure
SWIFT and Microsoft Join Forces for a POC Software giant Microsoft and financial messaging cooperative SWIFT are taking a major step forward in making Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service the host for native payments, officials announced at SWIFT’s SIBOS conference underway this week in Sydney, Australia. The two companies acknowledged that they have been working… Read More >>
Deutsche Bank Shifts Three Recs Services to SmartStream
Deutsche Bank has outsourced three reconciliation services to a SmartStream Technologies’ Center of Excellence (CoE) in an effort to streamline recs processing and make it more cost effective, according to bank and vendor officials. SmartStream’s CoE is now overseeing “three distinct managed services: reconciliations on-boarding, production support and operational reconciliation services,” officials say. Previously, the… Read More >>
Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas Control Transaction Fees via SmartStream
SmartStream Technologies and Credit Suisse have expanded their invoice processing agreement so that the vendor will be handling the listed derivatives brokerage fees, officials from both companies announced at the SWIFT SIBOS event in Toronto this week. SmartStream also unveiled at SIBOS the latest version of its TLM Reconciliations Premium solution. The bank will be… Read More >>
New SmartStream RDU CEO to Push Ops Utility
SmartStream has found a true believer in the industry utility concept and has made industry veteran Peter Moss the next CEO of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU). The RDU is a managed service that delivers reference data for regulatory reporting, trade processing and risk management operations in a supposedly more cost-effective utility approach, officials… Read More >>
SmartStream Names New CEO as Philippe Chambadal Becomes President
Post-trade systems vendor SmartStream Technologies has a new CEO, Haytham Kaddoura, who will be working with Philippe Chambadal, who has left the CEO post to become president of the company, vendor officials announced this week. Kaddoura has served as an advisor to the board of directors of SmartStream, and is a member of the board… Read More >>
