If you hear a few roars emanating from Wall Street towers, they are most likely about the decline in cash bonuses for 2022. Thomas P. DiNapoli, the comptroller for the state of New York, has just released his annual estimate for Wall Street bonuses and they have dropped by an average of 26 percent because… Read More >>
Broadridge’s LTX Forms Buy-Side Advisory Group
Post-trade systems and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions has formed a buy-side advisory group to advance its LTX electronic trading platform via improved liquidity, transparency and execution quality for buy-side traders working in corporate bonds, officials say. Launched in 2020, the LTX platform, which uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies and the RFX trading protocol, targets… Read More >>
Northern Trust to Cut 500 from Global Staff
Custodian and service provider Northern Trust confirms that it will be shrinking its global workforce by approximately 500 positions, which is less than 2.5 percent of its total staff, due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing low interest rates. The staff cuts follow Northern Trust Corp.’s report of a third-quarter net income… Read More >>
Taking Stock of the Year in Ops
As 2015 winds down, FTF News will be taking a look back over a year that had many surprises – maybe more than the predicted trends. We will be having a daily news flow this week, including news for Christmas Eve. We will be taking off on Christmas and New Year’s Day, but will have… Read More >>
When Bernanke Faced the Panic
As the world waits breathlessly for the Federal Reserve to render a decision on interest rates, it’s probably a good time to look back to when things really did cause you to stop breathing for a second. That would be the Great Recession when it kicked in during the fall of 2008. On a recent… Read More >>
