Sapient Global Markets, an IT provider and consultancy for financial services and commodities markets, is bolstering its Client Connect platform via a new collaboration with marketing and sales vendor Seismic. Working under the guidance of the Seismic Partner Edge program, the two companies intend to deliver “enhanced marketing and sales enablement tools, including the rapid… Read More >>
FTF Awards Gala Q&A: Time to Rethink Regulatory Reporting?
(Editor’s note: Regulators are pushing for more transparency into the parties involved in the pre- and post-trade processes, says Arun Karur, vice president at Sapient Global Markets. This will mean more work for end-user firms, and that the flow of regulation and regulatory reporting will not be slowing down, says Karur, who took time out… Read More >>
Sapient Global Markets Tightens Links to Microsoft Azure
Sapient Global Markets (SGM), a technology and consulting services provider, will be tightening its collaboration with Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service, and Sapient’s CMRS regulatory reporting platform will be taking full advantage of the greater joint effort, officials say. “We have had CMRS on Azure for the last two years but we are now enhancing… Read More >>
FTF Announces 2017 Award Winners
Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has just announced the winners in its awards competition for post-trade securities operations, which turned out to include a nod to the emerging technology of blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT). Approved industry participants and a not a panel of judges selected the winners for the 2017 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards, reports… Read More >>
Are Robots the Key to Full Automation for Post-Trade Ops?
(Editor’s note: Banks and other financial services firms are adopting more robotic process automation (RPA) solutions because they are helping firms move beyond inefficient and outdated manual systems, says Nick Fry, a London-based director with Sapient Global Markets who is also the lead post-trade subject matter expert for the consultancy. RPA involves the application of… Read More >>
Ops Staffs to Heed the Call of Disruption in 2017
(The word “disruption” has been noted by pundits as one of the most over-used in 2016. However, the term still accurately describes the changes underway in securities operations — and across financial services — that shook multiple groups, disciplines and conventional wisdom. To appease linguists and help operations staffs, FTF News in this final installment… Read More >>
Firms Could See Stormy Weather in 2017
(In this second installment of predictions [click here to read the first installment and here for the third installment], FTF News is reviewing the predictions made about the investment outlook for 2017 and the cloud and digital technologies that may help firms cope with what will likely be an interesting year. The final story in… Read More >>
Global Markets to Brace for E.U. Regs in 2017
(FTF News is sampling the flurry of securities industry predictions that are hitting as 2017 becomes reality and 2016 starts to fade. This review of predictions will be presented in three parts this week. This is the first installment (click here for second installment and here for third installment) and it focuses on what may… Read More >>
Buy Side Hustles to Meet Bank of Israel Deadline
(Sapient Global Markets, a consultancy for financial services and commodity markets, reports that its Compliance Management Reporting System (CMRS) complies with the forthcoming, mandatory reporting requirements of the Bank of Israel (BoI), the central bank of the Jewish state. Sapient has updated the rules engine of CMRS so that it offers a connection to the… Read More >>
DZ Bank Overhauls Collateral Allocation
DZ Bank’s Group Treasury division has gone live with a revamped collateral allocation system that has instituted a post-trade collateral optimization process to auto-collateralize margin calls and send suggestions of collateral substitutions, report officials from the German bank officials and consultancy Sapient Global Markets, which facilitated the overhaul. The project began with a proof of… Read More >>
