Northern Trust Combines Groups for Digital Effort Northern Trust has combined teams and launched a Digital Assets and Financial Markets group that will be “responsible for supporting the fast-growing digital asset markets and those dedicated to providing market access and insights across the traditional securities services markets,” officials say. The step is a recognition of… Read More >>
Disaster Recovery & Resilience Are Part of Production: DTCC
A new white paper from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) is making the case that disaster recovery and resilience are becoming part of the real-time, production IT infrastructure at financial services firms rather than rare contingencies. The report, “The Power of Technology Resilience: A Framework for the Industry,” argues that while firms are… Read More >>
ICE Expands Fixed Income Services & More News
ICE Best Execution Platform Gets a Makeover Officials at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) report that the exchanges and technology company is doubling its coverage of fixed income instruments via improvements to the ICE Best Execution Service platform. The enhancements encompass pre-trade analysis, and front-, middle- and back-office services, and will help the ICE platform manage… Read More >>
Canadian Firm to Use SimCorp & Other News
StonePine Signs Up for SimCorp’s Centralization A relatively new Canadian firm, StonePine Asset Management reports that it will be using an investment platform and services from vendor SimCorp to jumpstart its growth. The new agreement will mean that SimCorp’s Software as a Service (Saas) investment management solutions will run the asset manager’s front-to-back office… Read More >>
Germany’s LPA Plans U.S. Expansion & Other News
Germany’s LPA Plans U.S. Expansion LPA, the capital markets technology and advisory firm headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with offices in a dozen cities around the world, reports a United States expansion plan. The plan calls for a new office in New York City and the appointment of Serge Malka as the firm’s U.S…. Read More >>
FTF Reveals the Winners of the 2022 FTF Awards
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition and to confirm that there will be an in-person gala event later this year to celebrate the industry’s achievements in operational excellence. “I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a long two years. During… Read More >>
U.K. Authorities Push for Post-Trade Ops Overhauls
An influential U.K.-based task force focused on post-trade operations has issued a report calling for major changes in three “core areas:” non-economic trade data, client onboarding, and uncleared margin management. In addition, a key U.K. authority, the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Markets Standards Board (FMSB), has promised to act on the recommendations. The FMSB… Read More >>
Senate Confirms ‘Most Diverse’ CFTC Ever
The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new slate of commissioners for the CFTC and they will write the next chapter for the regulatory agency now led by Chairman Rostin Behnam, who notes that “the CFTC has the most diverse set of commissioners in the agency’s history.” U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), chairwoman of the U.S…. Read More >>
NY AG, Regulators Charge Safeguard Metals with Fraud
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit against Safeguard Metals LLC, a precious metals company, and its owner and manager, Jeffrey S. Santulan, alleging that they defrauded investors, including many seniors, across New York and the United States. The lawsuit, originally filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a bipartisan coalition… Read More >>
Dash Overhauls Its OMS & Other FinTech News
OMS Update Also Links to Dash ATS Dash Financial Technologies, an options technology and execution vendor, is launching a redesigned version of its order management system (OMS) for options trading that provides access to all routing and algorithmic execution tools such as the Sensor suite, the Dash Alternative Trading System (ATS), and an integrated volatility… Read More >>
