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‘Your Bourse’ Expands Liquidity via BlockFills Link

July 2, 2025 by FTF News

‘Your Bourse’ Expands Liquidity via BlockFills Link

BlockFills, a digital assets market infrastructure provider, has been integrated with brokerage technology provider Your Bourse, which will expand BlockFills’ network of liquidity providers while at the same time allowing BlockFills to serve as a liquidity provider to brokers using the Your Bourse platform, officials say. The Your Bourse trading and pricing infrastructure supports cryptocurrencies,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Data Management, FX Operations, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Asset Custody, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards, Cybersecurity, Economic Sanctions Tagged With: automation, blockchain, crypto operations, crypto-based assets, liquidity, liquidity provider, operational risk

Mereo Insurance Taps Northern Trust Asset Servicing

June 25, 2025 by FTF News

Mereo Insurance Taps Northern Trust Asset Servicing

A new reinsurance firm, Mereo Insurance Ltd., has tapped Northern Trust Asset Servicing to provide custody services and institutional brokerage solutions, which means that it will act as a broker for Mereo’s trade execution needs, officials say. In addition, the Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) unit will manage “a portion of Mereo’s fixed income portfolio… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Integration, Standards Tagged With: automation, data management, operational risk, outsourcing, Reinsurance, Securities Operations

DTCC to Explore Fnality Integration with Digital Launchpad

June 25, 2025 by FTF News

DTCC to Explore Fnality Integration with Digital Launchpad

Post-trade infrastructure provider the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) and a provider of regulated DLT-based wholesale payment systems Fnality are collaborating “on the potential integration of the Fnality wholesale payments system (FnPS) as a payment rail” within DTCC’s recently introduced Digital Launchpad, officials say. The Digital Launchpad supports “the testing and advancement of emerging… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Asset Custody, FinTech Trends, Cybersecurity, Economic Sanctions Tagged With: automation, back office, blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT), operational risk, operations, wholesale payments

30% of E.U. Firms Have No T+1 Plans

June 22, 2025 by Faye Kilburn

30% of E.U. Firms Have No T+1 Plans

Almost three in 10 firms have yet to begin any planning for Europe’s T+1 transition, scheduled to take effect on Oct. 11, 2027, according to a new research report, with a further two in ten — representing 19 percent of respondents — still in the process of scoping the necessary work. The remaining firms, however,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Data Management, Operational Risk, Settlement, T+1 Settlement, Digital Transformation, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting Tagged With: automation, back office, operational risk, Securities Operations, Standards, T+1, T+1 settlement, T+1 transition

Outdated IT Spurs Staff & Customer Frustrations

June 18, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

Outdated IT Spurs Staff & Customer Frustrations

(Financial services firms need to keep their IT infrastructure current or risk pushback from staff and clients, says Kristin Ferguson, CFE, CAMS, CFI, senior director, enterprise investigations, TIAA- Nuveen, in an FTF News Q&A. At TIAA-Nuveen, Ferguson’s responsibilities include conducting and overseeing targeted, highly sensitive investigations, including but not limited to: embezzlement, bribery/kickbacks, vendor fraud,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Integration, Standards, Opinion, Q&As, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Enforcement, Cybersecurity Tagged With: AML, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, automation, back office, bribery, compliance, data management, embezzlement, know your customer (KYC), operational risk, Securities Operations, Standards, wall street

Congress Mulls the Fate of the PCAOB

June 11, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

Congress Mulls the Fate of the PCAOB

Securities firms, investors, government officials, and all other capital markets participants rely on the financials that auditors of public companies provide. Yet scandals large and small led to the creation of an auditor of the auditors in 2002, dubbed the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which was fostered by the U.S. Congress and then-President… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Sell-Side, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Enforcement, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: compliance, Dodd-Frank, operational risk, PCAOB, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Sarbanes-Oxley, Securities Operations, Standards, US Securities and Exchange Commission, wall street

LTX Weaves GenA.I. Into Bond Trading Workflows

June 11, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

LTX Weaves GenA.I. Into Bond Trading Workflows

LTX, the corporate bond trading subsidiary of Broadridge Financial Solutions, has a new capability for its platform that integrates generative artificial intelligence (A.I.) capabilities within trading platform workflows that can anticipate investing and trading inquiries, officials say. The new function, dubbed BondGPT Intelligence, can expect “users’ queries based on where they are in the investing… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Hedge Fund Operations, Ops Automation, Private Markets, Risk Management, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Integration, Standards, Industry News Tagged With: automation, bond trading, BondGPT, Broadridge Business Process Outsourcing LLC, Broadridge Financial Services, data management, fixed income trading, GPT, LTX, operational risk, Securities Operations, wall street

BondWave Bolsters Its Fixed Income Platform

June 11, 2025 by FTF News

BondWave Bolsters Its Fixed Income Platform

Fixed income solutions provider BondWave has added a feature to its Effi platform for fixed income transactions that “allows users to measure their total trade costs and compare them against relevant peers in the marketplace,” officials say. The new feature, Transaction Quality Analysis (TQA), is intended to help end-users access “essential context into the true… Read More >>

Filed Under: Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Risk Management, Settlement, Governance, FinTech Trends, Performance Analytics, Performance Measurement, Cybersecurity, Economic Sanctions Tagged With: BondWave, CUSIP, data mangement, municipal bonds, municipal securities, operational risk, portfolio analytics

A.I. in U.S. Ops May Help T+1 Overseas

June 4, 2025 by Faye Kilburn

A.I. in U.S. Ops May Help T+1 Overseas

The U.S. securities operations industry is seeing a boon of interest in artificial intelligence (A.I.) tools — from generative A.I. to predictive fail systems — as global market participants prepare for tighter settlement cycles across Europe, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland from Oct. 11, 2027. This wave of enthusiasm comes as global financial services institutions… Read More >>

Filed Under: Collateral & Margin Management, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Data Management, FX Operations, Hedge Fund Operations, Industry News, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Sell-Side, Settlement, T+1 Settlement, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Asset Custody Tagged With: artificial intelligence (AI), automation, back office, data management, EU, operational risk, Securities Operations, Switzerland, T+1 settlement, T+1 transition, UK

Prometheum Bolsters Support for On-Chain Securities

May 28, 2025 by FTF News

Prometheum Bolsters Support for On-Chain Securities

Officials at Prometheum Inc., a market infrastructure provider for blockchain-native securities, report that they have registered Prometheum Coinery LLC as a digital transfer agent with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and acquired ProFinancial Inc., an SEC-registered and FINRA-member broker-dealer. These actions make Prometheum “one of the only platforms to offer end-to-end lifecycle support… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Data Management, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Digital Asset Custody, Digital Transformation, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: back office, blochchain-native, DLT/blockchain initiative, operational risk, Prometheum, Securities Operations

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