Firm to Use Fiserv’s Asset Manager Connect Asset manager RNC Genter Capital Management is using Asset Manager Connect from Fiserv to “increase access to managed account sponsors and grow their client base,” officials say. The Asset Manager Connect links lets firms easily communicate with managed-account sponsors across the Wealth Management Network from Fiserv, officials say…. Read More >>
Major Banks to Mentor FinTech Startups in Asia
FinTech Innovation Lab to Help Eight Entrepreneurs Eight financial technology vendors with a range of new offerings including a know your customer (KYC) combination with distributed ledger technology, have been accepted into a 12-week mentorship program in the third annual FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific, officials say. Other startups participating in the lab are working on… Read More >>
BarCap to Pay $2M in CFTC, FINRA Fines
Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of the London-based banking multinational, has been hit with $2.1 million in fines for various reporting, clearing and trading violations, and for related supervision failures. Those penalties include an $800,000 fine from the CFTC and a $1.3 million fine from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). FINRA fined BarCap,… Read More >>
Report Bursts Blockchain/DLT Bubbles for Ops
There is no doubt that Blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) has become one of the most talked about technologies in the world. Conferences, articles and events have been hailing its attributes but a recent report by Boston-based management consultancy Opimas shows that the technology may not be the panacea that many market participants are envisioning. The… Read More >>
Sapient’s RegRecon Targets Key Recs Woes
Consultancy Sapient Global Markets says it’s taking on the reconciliation issues of low-match rates and inaccurate regulatory reporting via the launch of the RegRecon middleware that the vendor says will facilitate automated trade matching and reconciliation, break management, and a workflow for resolution. “The regulators require institutions to establish processes for identifying and resolving data… Read More >>
SWIFT Urges a Cautious Embrace of DLT
The financial messaging and systems cooperative SWIFT is urging a cautious embrace of the much-hyped blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) while acknowledging that it is engaged in many R&D and proof-of-concept projects. SWIFT is laying out its response to the DLT phenomenon via a position paper written with global professional services provider Accenture, and via the… Read More >>
Eurex Clearing Applies TriOptima’s Portfolio Compression
Eurex Clearing Implements triReduce Post-trade infrastructure provider TriOptima announced that Eurex Clearing members recently completed the first successful triReduce compression cycle for cleared euro (EUR) interest rate swaps (IRS), officials say. “Portfolio compression” reduces the size of an existing over-the-counter, interest rate swaps portfolio “with respect to the number of trades and notional through early… Read More >>
Fidessa and Alpha Omega Take On Centralized Matching
Post-trade matching that exploits the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading protocol is at the heart of a new partnership between electronic trading platform provider Fidessa group and FIX-based affirmation services vendor Alpha Omega, who are joining forces to offer “faster, low-cost bidirectional trade matching” via Fidessa’s post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS), says Steve Grob,… Read More >>
Hosting is a Serious Business: Fiserv
(Editor’s note: Many securities firms are embracing the hosted option be it a cloud-based offering, an application service provider (ASP) model or a “something-as-a-service” implementation. While much is made about the hands-off aspects of these hosted situations, operations staff members still have a lot of interactions with third-party suppliers. Tirdad Shojaie, senior vice president, product… Read More >>
Blockchain Is Old News for European Markets
Blockchain may be creating the most buzz in financial services circles today but it has been quietly making a noise in Europe for the past 20 years. London-based consultancy Z/Yen created one of the first prototypes — a decentralized electronic ledger — for a client who wanted a shared database to provide an indelible and… Read More >>
