The ISITC standards and best practices trade group has honored Genevy Dimitrion with its Standard of Excellence Award, rewarding the industry veteran for her long-time service to the organization, the industry, and for the many industry initiatives she has helped develop. The award was presented to Dimitrion at ISITC’s 25th Annual Securities Operations Summit in… Read More >>
Disruptors to Empower the Buy Side: CRD CEO
John Plansky, the new CEO of vendor Charles River Development (CRD), says that a convergence of disruptors is driving industry change and is shifting power from the sell side to the buy side — one of the related subjects he will be focus on during his keynote address at the 25th Annual Securities Operations Summit… Read More >>
ISITC to Scrutinize Disruptive IT at Spring Summit
David Scola, head of North America for the SWIFT financial messaging and services cooperative, will dive into the impacts of disruptive technologies such as open application programming interfaces (APIs), distributed ledger technology (DLT), artificial intelligence and machine learning at ISITC’s 25th Annual Securities Operations Summit later this month in Boston. Scola is serving as moderator… Read More >>
FTF News & ISITC Extend Alliance
FTF News is happy to announce a big step for us and we hope a major boost to what we are providing to you — we will be the exclusive media partner for ISITC throughout 2019. As you know, the ISITC industry trade group has made a major commitment to foster standards and best practices… Read More >>
ISITC Picks New Chair for 2019-2020 Term
Starting next year, Lisa Iagatta, director of account management for investment services at Fiserv, will be the new chair of ISITC, the industry trade group focused on creating and promoting securities operations standards. One of her key initiatives, Iagatta tells FTF News, will be to foster strategic collaborations with other global financial services and standards… Read More >>
ISITC & SIFMA Push for Margin Call Process Improvements
ISITC’s Margin and Collateral Working Group and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s Asset Management Group (AMG) have combined forces to launch a collection of best practices to help firms grappling with increased margin calls across collateralized products. The new document, “ETD and Cleared OTC Margin Call and Communication Standards and Settlement Processing,” is… Read More >>
ISITC Jolts Ops Standards, Embraces the Cutting-Edge
(FTF News got a rare chance to check in with Erica Borghi, the current chair of the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC), and Lisa Iagatta, current vice chair for ISITC, an industry group that advances standards, technology and best practices for financial services operations. In a wide-ranging Q&A, they provide updates on… Read More >>
Change Management Can Help Uproot Manual Systems
(Cheryl Nash, president of Fiserv Investment Services, gave the closing keynote address last month at the ISITC 24th Annual Securities Operations Summit, and her talk focused on the inevitability of change. Nash has been serving in her current post for more than six years, and her expertise includes the development of “multiple strategy portfolios, known… Read More >>
Steve Goswell to Receive ISITC Excellence Award
Goswell to Be Honored on March 19 ISITC is honoring industry veteran Steve Goswell, currently vice president of Bank of the West, with the ISITC Standard of Excellence Award at the industry standards group’s 24th Annual Securities Operations Summit in Boston next week. Goswell, who will receive his award on Monday, March 19, was picked… Read More >>
FTF News to Cover ISITC Ops Summit
I am very happy to announce that FTF News has been named the sole media sponsor for the ISITC 24th Annual Securities Operations Summit, to be held in Boston from Sunday, March 18, to Wednesday, March 21. FTF will be hosting a booth and will be looking forward to talking to as many securities operations… Read More >>
