(Editor’s note: Nomura Research Institute (NRI) won two major honors — Best Collateral Management Solution for NRI GX Margins, and Best OTC Derivatives Solutions for NRI GX Derivatives — as a result of the 2019 FTF News Technology Innovation awards competition. FTF News was able to get time with Hiro Hamada, the global head of… Read More >>
ETFs Added to U.K.’s Investment Association Sectors
ETFs To Be Compared Against IA’s 37 Fund Sectors The U.K. industry group Investment Association (IA) has agreed to let exchange traded funds (ETFs) join the IA sectors, officials say. The IA represents U.K. asset managers and supports British savers, investors and businesses, officials say. The association has 250 members that oversee £7.7 trillion of… Read More >>
Voters Reward Disruptive & Established Providers via FTF Awards
NEW YORK CITY — A mix of disruptive and established technology providers have made the winner’s circle of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards (the FTF Awards), which Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is revealing today. For instance, for the Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative, the winner is Synechron while TCS BaNCS and its Quartz effort… Read More >>
Securian Trust Employs SEI’s Cloud-Based Platform
SEI Client to Focus on Automation & Integration SEI reports that Securian Trust Company, an SEI client since 2009, will adopt its wealth platform, intended to “provide a seamless experience for … clients and the advisors that serve them.” The platform, SEI says, is a “fully-integrated, single-infrastructure technology solution developed to support client relationship management,… 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 >>
Mizuho Securities Uses Voice Recognition-A.I. System for Compliance
Mizuho Securities Co. has deployed for its Tokyo headquarters a call monitoring system that integrates voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and that helps the firm speed up its compliance analysis of communication between investors and sales representatives. The deployment combines voice recognition and A.I. offerings from Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI), a consulting… Read More >>
NRI, Mizuho Explore AI Overhaul of Derivatives Contracts
Systems provider and consultancy Nomura Research Institute (NRI) recently completed a proof-of-concept test project with Mizuho Bank operations staff that applied artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to labor-intensive derivatives contract processing in order to find efficiencies. For most participants in derivatives markets, the standard operating procedure for managing derivative contracts involves the exchange of printed International… Read More >>
NRI to Use Robotics from a U.K. Provider
Nomura Research Institute (NRI) is embracing robotics for a key function of its settlement service in Japan and has plans to expand this advanced utility globally, NRI officials tell FTF News. Starting this month, NRI’s Prime Settlement Service (PSS), a utility offering for investment banks, will be incorporating Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in order to… Read More >>
More Global Banks Test or Explore Blockchain
The bandwagon for blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) is getting crowded as four major global banks have just completed a battery of tests in which the cutting-edge technology played a key role in credit default swap (CDS) processing. At the same time, key players in Japan led by Nomura Research Institute (NRI) officials are… Read More >>
Q&A: ‘NRI to Up Sales Outside Japan to $1 Billion’
The new president of NRI Holdings America Yasuki Okai talks about the company’s North American push.
