Broadridge Solution Eases SEC Compliance Broadridge Financial Solutions reports that it has developed a “technology-enabled template and end-to-end process solution for fund companies and fund administrators” that “simplifies the steps involved in creating and providing the SEC’s new Tailored Shareholder Reports.” The digital template “is good for fund investors and compliant with the rules,” says… Read More >>
BNY Mellon Buys Optimal’s Indexing for ‘Pershing X’
Other BNY Mellon Units to Get Direct Indexing Too The Pershing clearing and custody services business of BNY Mellon is acquiring Optimal Asset Management, a direct indexing solutions provider, and will offer Optimal’s capabilities to advisory clients within Pershing, and to institutional and retail clients within BNY Mellon’s Investment Management business. If the acquisition… Read More >>
Commerzbank Fills CEO Post via Deutsche Bank Hire
Manfred Knof to Replace Martin Zielke at Commerzbank Frankfurt-based Commerzbank has named its next CEO as Manfred Knof who comes from Deutsche Bank where he’s been head of a competing private banking business for Germany. Knof, 55, will oversee the bank’s managing directors, starting January 1 of next year. He will succeed Martin Zielke, the… Read More >>
Linedata Partners with UnaVista for ARM Services
In a MiFID II compliance move, Linedata, an investment management solutions and outsourcing services vendor, is partnering with the UnaVista division of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to enable their mutual clients to use UnaVista as an Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) to facilitate transactions to National Competent Authorities (NCAs). The partnership with UnaVista will… Read More >>
LSE’s CEO Suddenly Departs Amid Shareholder Battle
LSEG Shareholder Upsets Previously Announced Succession Plan Xavier Rolet stepped down as CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) on Nov. 29 “with immediate effect,” reports the LSEG board, following a controversial move by a key LSEG shareholder. Rolet’s temporary replacement is David Warren, current chief financial officer (CFO) for the LSEG, who will… Read More >>
CFTC’s Giancarlo Sounds the Alarm on E.U. Overreach
There are so many moving parts to the Brexit negotiations between the U.K. and the E.U., but the European Commission’s wish to tighten its grip on non-European clearinghouses has rankled U.S. regulators. In an opinion piece titled “An EU Plan to Invade U.S. Markets,” published in The Wall Street Journal by J. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman… Read More >>
Global Stock Exchanges Steam Ahead
Despite political and economic uncertainty, global stock exchange groups have powered through, generating strong results in the first half of 2017. Total revenues hit $14.7 billion, up 4.1 percent from a year earlier and an annual record is expected to be set by the end of the year, according to a recent report from consultancy… Read More >>
Global Exchanges Hit Record 6.83% Jump in Revenues
Global exchanges enjoyed a 6.83 percent jump in revenues to a record $28.3 billion in 2016, according to the latest sector report by Burton-Taylor International Consulting, a division of interdealer broker TP ICAP’s Data and Analytics group. The main drivers were market data and index businesses, which reported a 29.2 percent hike in revenues to… Read More >>
E.U. Kills LSE-Deutsche Börse Merger
On the same day that Brexit launched, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Deutsche Börse have definitively called it quits after the European Commission prohibited the proposed merger, citing the potential of a monopoly in the markets for clearing fixed income instruments. The E.C. investigation “concluded the merger would have created a de facto… Read More >>
Brexit Imperils LSE-Deutsche Börse Merger
Perhaps it was inevitable after the Brexit vote that the €29 billion ($24.4 billion) merger of the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse would never see the light of day. However, the LSE’s decision not to divest its 60 percent share in MTS, the Italian bond trading platform, to appease the European Commission’s anti-trust regulators… Read More >>
