NEW YORK CITY — A mix of disruptive and established technology providers have made the winner’s circle of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards (the FTF Awards), which Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is revealing today. For instance, for the Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative, the winner is Synechron while TCS BaNCS and its Quartz effort… Read More >>
FTF News Unveils Winners of 2018 FTF Awards
Providers of established and cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain ledgers and artificial intelligence are getting the spotlight in the winners’ circle of the annual FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2018, the eighth time that Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has recognized achievements in the securities operations industry. Other than the Editor’s Choice award, qualified industry… Read More >>
Liquidnet & TradeSmart Partnership Targets Buy-Side Customers
TradeSmart Gets New Links to Liquidity With buy-side customers in mind, TradingScreen Inc. is partnering with Liquidnet, an institutional trading network, to allow the TradeSmart order and execution management system (OEMS) to access Liquidnet’s institutional liquidity and trading strategies, officials say. A TradingScreen offering, TradeSmart is a software as a service (Saas) targets best execution… Read More >>
Ipreo Applies FIX to Fixed Income Workflows
Ipreo Pulls Together an Industry-Led Effort Ipreo, a market intelligence and workflow solutions vendor, is embracing the FIX Protocol to help end-users optimize and streamline fixed income deal workflow. The results of Ipreo’s efforts is the industry-led initiative, the Ipreo Investor Access platform, which has the capability to electronically submit fixed income orders directly to… Read More >>
Barclays Signs Up for DTCC’s New Liquidity Data Service
New Offering from DTCC Data Products DTCC Data Products, a centralized data provisioning service supporting DTCC’s offerings, is launching the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) Data Service, which has gotten the thumb’s up from Barclays Bank, officials say. The new LCR Data Service has been designed to “help firms manage their buffer requirements for liquidity facilities”… Read More >>
New York Proposes Mandatory Cyber-Security for Firms
NY DFS Proposes Regulation to Require Cyber-Security Programs The state of New York via the State Department of Financial Services (DFS) wants to require banks, insurance companies, and financial services institutions to “establish and maintain” a cyber-security program via a new regulation proposed by the DFS and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. The impetus for the… Read More >>
FTF Awards Spotlights Ops Providers and Individuals
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF), owner of FTF News, has just announced the winners of the 2016 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, noting that it had a record-breaking response with approximately 27,000 votes cast for 25 awards categories. Except for the Editor’s Choice award, the nominees and ultimate winners of the awards are selected by FTF… Read More >>
RIMES Rolls Out Real Estate Indices
Data services provider RIMES has rolled out several new real estate-focused indices for its Reference Data Service (RDS), officials say. The move comes after RIMES recently expanded its private equity index roster earlier this year, as part of its “ongoing rollout of new alternative asset data sources … in response to the buy side’s growing… Read More >>
RIMES Hires from Interactive Data
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Citi Cuts Staff as Jill Considine Joins LCH.Clearnet
Citi Cuts Staff as Profits Rise Multiple news organizations are reporting that Citigroup is cutting 200 to 300 positions from equity and fixed income trading groups even as the bank reported favorable net income results for the first quarter of this year. For Q1 2014, the bank’s net income was up four percent to $3.9… Read More >>
