‘Roxe’ Pitched as a New Way to Clear & Settle Apifiny, a San Francisco-based global transfer network services provider, has officially debuted a settlement network based on blockchain technology, dubbed Roxe, that has been designed for “instant global clearing and settlement of payments and remittances, traditional assets, and digital assets,” according to the vendor…. Read More >>
BrokerTec & triResolve Push to Advance Repo Automation
Fixed income electronic trading platform BrokerTec has joined forces with derivatives infrastructure services vendor TriOptima to offer more automation across the mostly manual lifecycle of a repo trade, officials say. The intention is to improve the repo trade workflow, Raf Pritchard, head of triResolve at CME Group, tells FTF News. The triResolve group is part… Read More >>
Smarsh Acquires Entreda to Bolster Cybersecurity Support
Electronic communications archiving vendor Smarsh will be able to bolster its cybersecurity risk and compliance offerings to broker-dealers, registered investment advisors (RIAs) and banks via its acquisition of Entreda, maker of a platform that unifies these services. Smarsh offers archiving and compliance support for email, social media, text messaging, instant messaging, websites, and voice. Through… Read More >>
Firm Launches Trading System Despite Pandemic
An Australian specialist fund manager, Atlas Infrastructure, went live with Indata’s Architect AI OMS and portfolio management solution this month despite the disruptions cause by the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the vendor’s help, completed a deployment remotely. The travel restrictions caused by the pandemic meant that Indata worked with Atlas “completely on a remote basis… Read More >>
Why StatPro Agreed to the Confluence Takeover
StatPro’s board of directors announced late last week that it had agreed to a takeover offer from Confluence via Bidco in an all-cash agreement of approximately £161.1 million ($201.3 million). The deal will take the company private — apparently in an effort to give customers fuller product platforms via a combined company. To recap, StatPro… Read More >>
Cloud Computing Helps Firms Control Costs: Q&A
(For the 2019 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, Murex won for Software Solution of the Year and Best Cloud Computing Solution. Murex describes itself as a provider of integrated trading, risk management, processing and post-trade solutions, available via the MX.3 third-generation platform. For this Q&A, the focus is on cloud computing and Arnaud de Chavagnac,… Read More >>
Traiana Aims Post-Trade Service at Equity Swaps
Traiana Targets Ops Efficiency & Settlement Risk A service to automate key post-trade stages of equity swaps processing has been launched by Traiana, an infrastructure solutions provider for trading and risk management. The vendor wants to automate “manual, labor intensive and inefficient” post-trade affirmation, officials say. The new Equity Swaps Lifecycle Management offering “normalizes data… Read More >>
Fenergo Links to Refinitiv’s World-Check One
Fenergo, a client management systems vendor, is offering a new level of integration with a financial crime-fighting offering of market data and risk management provider Refinitiv that is intended to streamline know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance. Fenergo is launching an application programming interface (API) link from its client lifecycle management (CLM)… Read More >>
Clearing Reforms Need to Be Consistent Globally: WFE
Securities clearing has seen many reforms since the Great Recession, but these overhauls such as the improved management of credit, market and liquidity risk still need to be consistently implemented across the globe, according to a new report from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and Oliver Wyman. The report, “The Future Of Clearing,” finds… Read More >>
World Bank Signs Licensing Agreement with SimCorp
World Bank Deployment to Cover Middle and Back Offices SimCorp, which provides investment management products and services to the financial services industry, reports that the World Bank has licensed SimCorp Dimension, the vendor’s investment management system. The agreement was signed in late 2018, per SimCorp. Under the agreement, the World Bank has licensed SimCorp’s “middle… Read More >>
