A white paper from financial messaging and systems cooperative SWIFT finds that regulatory concerns tower over other operational challenges for the buy side in 2015. Research commissioned by SWIFT also shows that buy-side firms are grappling with automation and financial crime compliance initiatives. The findings came as a result of survey and are offered via… Read More >>
Ex-Deriv/Serv CEO to Join GMEX Boards
Sandy Broderick has been appointed as a non-executive director to the boards of GMEX Technologies Ltd.; Global Markets Exchange Group Ltd. (GMEX) which operates GMEX Exchange; and Global Derivatives Indices Ltd. (GDI), officials say. Broderick will also serve as chairman of GMEX. Broderick most recently served as CEO of DTCC’s Deriv/Serv, capping 25 years of… Read More >>
ICE Futures Hit with $3M Penalty for Trade Reporting Errors
Derivatives marketplace ICE Futures U.S. has been slapped with a $3 million civil monetary penalty by the CFTC over repeated failures to comply with trade reporting requirements over a 20-month period, officials say. ICE Futures U.S. is a futures and options exchange for agricultural, energy and financial contracts. It is part of the Intercontinental Exchange… Read More >>
Fed Wants LEIs for Certain Reporting Forms
The Federal Reserve Board on Monday, March 16, proposed that banking organizations be required to include their existing Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) on certain regulatory reporting forms, officials say. The LEI standard is a 20-character alphanumeric code that is universal and uniquely corresponds to a single legal entity. The LEI reference code enables easier identification… Read More >>
Cryptocurrencies Gain Ground Amid Real Money
The world of cryptocurrencies is an alternate yet visible reality that is gaining ground slowly but surely amid the established Matrix of supposedly real money. To recap, the main digital/cryptocurrency is the non-political online Bitcoin “backed exclusively by code,” according to the Bitcoin Foundation website. “This means that — ultimately — it is only as… Read More >>
Watson Wheatley Adds Equity Module to i-Recs
Reconciliation systems vendor Watson Wheatley Financial Systems (WWFS) has released a new Total Equity Module for Derivatives Reconciliation for its i-Recs platform, officials say. The module facilitates matching of any margin traded instruments, and its “unique methodology” can help solve “the book cost differences that appear on derivative instruments,” according to a company statement. The… Read More >>
More Firms Buy Than Build Analytics Systems for PM
Financial services firms are trending toward buying third-party solutions when they face the build-or-buy decision for implementing a performance measurement analytics system as revealed by panelists at Financial Technologies Forum’s Performance Measurement 2015 conference, held yesterday in New York City. The panel featured industry participants on hand to dissect the most important issues to keep… Read More >>
IVP Taps Eze Castle Software for MD
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a vendor of alternative asset management solutions, has hired Sachin Kachhla, a former executive at portfolio management system provider Tradar, to be its managing director for sales and client relations, officials say. “Kachhla established and grew the North American business of Tradar,” say IVP officials, “from under five clients to over… Read More >>
SWIFT Hires from Markit for Management Team
Financial messaging and systems cooperative SWIFT has hired industry veteran David Lefferts from financial information services vendor Markit, where he served in product development, cross-product strategy, and senior business development roles over eight years, officials say. At SWIFT, Lefferts will serve as a managing director, market initiatives for the Americas. Lefferts, who has more than… Read More >>
CME Group Fills Top Post in Asia-Pacific
CME Group, operator of key derivatives exchanges, reports that it has named Christopher Fix managing director and head of Asia Pacific. Fix, who joins the company in June, will be based in Singapore and report to London-based William Knottenbelt, senior managing director and head of International, CME Group. Fix will be “responsible for leading CME… Read More >>
