(The North American push for securities settlement within the trading day plus another day, a.k.a. T+1, is not going leave much time for fixing failed settlement efforts, says Jonathan Ehrenfeld, who is head of securities strategy for the Swift financial message cooperative. Ehrenfeld is responsible for Swift’s securities, foreign exchange, and digital assets strategies and… Read More >>
Q&A: Securities Firms Are More Open to Collaboration
(Systems and software based upon open source technology have permeated the securities trading industry even though firms had reservations about the movement for years. In fact, Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services sector project of the Linux Foundation, had a membership surge in 2021 via a 34 percent increase in new corporate members… Read More >>
Firms Need Collaboration to Keep Up: Q&A
(In the past, some financial services firms have been known to follow the mantra of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” notes Mark Bolton, head of international sales for Gresham Technologies. Yet the financial technology landscape has been changing fast and firms will have to keep up or risk having “solutions that are unable… Read More >>
Electra Reconciliation Update Will Use ML: Q&A
(Electra Information Systems, Inc., a provider of reconciliation and other post-trade solutions, won the 2019 FTF News Technology Innovation award for Best Reconciliation Solution, its fourth consecutive win in this category. FTF News got time with Todd Sloan, senior vice president, business development and product management for Electra. Sloan joined Electra in 2003 as a… Read More >>
Bloomberg Shouldn’t Fear LSE-Refinitiv Deal: Q&A
(FTF News recently got time with Spencer Mindlin, an Aite Group analyst who focuses on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and front-office trading technology such as execution and order management systems, market data platforms, and emerging financial technology products. Mindlin answered our questions about the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) moving to acquire Refinitiv from a Blackstone… Read More >>
SS&C: Client-Facing Data Must Be Ready Sooner
(Editor’s note: Al Castillo, senior director, solutions management, Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS), has an idea why there is a major move to cloud-based managed services among SS&C Advent’s customer base. “As such, it’s an easy decision to pivot the deployment responsibility to a provider that has the knowledge and experience — and we’re seeing this… Read More >>
SmartStream Argues for the Utility Approach
(Editor’s note: SmartStream took home the award for Best Operational Risk Management Solution in this year’s FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition for its Reference Data Utility (RDU) offering. Among its many aspects, the RDU provides a security master that was created “in close association with demanding global institutions,” according to SmartStream. The RDU is a… Read More >>
How TCA Can Help the Buy Side Too
(The MiFID II reforms across multiple asset classes have caused asset managers across the globe to become more aware of the exacting demands of best execution requirements and thus more aware of the importance of applying transaction cost analysis (TCA) to a trading enterprise. So says Chris Hollands, the head of North American and European… Read More >>
BNY & AcadiaSoft Focus On the CM Maze: Q&A
(Custodian bank BNY Mellon is teaming up with collateral management software and services vendor AcadiaSoft to offer an outsourced service that supports margin calculations for non-cleared derivatives. This is an effort to help buy-side derivatives market participants “fully outsource their entire non-cleared margin workflow, via the market’s first end-to-end collateral solution developed by BNY Mellon,”… Read More >>
Firms Need a ‘Ruthless Focus’ on Data: Q&A
(Kristin Swenton Hochstein wears many hats. She is the head of entity data services for Refinitiv, the company spun off from the former financial and risk businesses of Thomson Reuters. She also serves as the recently elected vice chair for ISITC, the securities industry group pushing standards and best practices to improve operations. She is… Read More >>
