With nods to established players and voter enthusiasm for other providers hitting their stride, Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has unveiled the winners of the 2023 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition. The 30 winners of the FTF Awards competition — now in its 12th year — are being honored for achievements during 2022. “It’s not… Read More >>
Trading Technologies Buys AxeTrading & Other News
TT Boosts Fixed Income Outreach Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) reports that its multi-asset class expansion got a boost via its acquisition of London-based AxeTrading, a provider of fixed income trading solutions. The acquisition for an undisclosed amount is a move “into full coverage of corporate, government, municipal and emerging market bonds as well as… Read More >>
Bloomberg Pays $5M Penalty to Resolve BVAL Case
Bloomberg Finance L.P. is paying a $5 million penalty to the SEC to settle charges that its daily price valuation service BVAL misled some fixed income subscribers when the market data giant allegedly failed to let them know that some of the valuations were based on a single data input rather than a full implementation… Read More >>
‘Ghost Cattle’ Scam Creates AML Woes for FCM
CHS Hedging, a registered futures commission merchant based in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., is paying a penalty of $6.5 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to settle charges that it had inadequate anti-money laundering (AML), risk management, recordkeeping, and supervisory controls over a trading account of a cattle rancher running a $244 million “Ghost… Read More >>
Chicago Firm Streamlines Ops via INDATA & Other News
Asset Manager Moves to Single, Cloud-based System Boutique asset manager Advisory Research Investment Management (ARI) reports that it has gone live with a software as a service (SaaS)/cloud solution that combines front-office trade order management with back-office portfolio accounting and reporting functions. The implementation of the investment management system from vendor INDATA replaces an order… Read More >>
CACEIS & RBC Investor Services Collaborate & Other News
CACEIS to Acquire Part of RBC Investor Services CACEIS, the asset servicing banking group of Crédit Agricole S.A. and Santander, and the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) report that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) intended to result in the CACEIS acquisition of the European asset servicing activities of RBC Investor Services and… Read More >>
Not All ESG Funds Are Climate-Friendly: Report
Some environmental, social, and governance (ESG) funds and funds with “climate” in the name contain assets that are inconsistent with their environmentally conscious branding, according to a recent study by ESG Book. The report, “Always check the label,” examined asset data on 420 ESG funds and 95 climate-labeled funds, all of which had at least… Read More >>
SS&C Advances Blue Prism & Mainstay Offerings at ‘Deliver’
SS&C Technologies updated many of its mainstay systems and yet advanced key leading-edge offerings at the financial technology provider’s Deliver conference, held in Orlando, Fla., the week of Oct. 3. The event got underway even though Hurricane Ian made a turn toward Orlando prior to the start of the conference. SS&C’s Global Crisis Management (GCM)… Read More >>
DTCC & Snowflake Expand Partnership & Other News
DTCC to Build Upon Previous Snowflake Efforts Post-trade market infrastructure provider the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) will be building applications with data cloud vendor Snowflake “to transform how data is accessed, shared and leveraged across a number of its services,” officials say. The effort is a continuation of a previous Snowflake effort to… Read More >>
Insurance Investment Managers Can Optimize PE Returns: Q&A
(FTF News recently got time with Stan Szczepanik, managing director and head of insurance solutions at SS&C Technologies, and Scott Kurland, managing director at SS&C, who took questions about key trends facing insurance company investment portfolios — complex portfolios, a growing convergence between private equity (PE) and insurance entities, and the ways that artificial intelligence… Read More >>
