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Time to Investigate A.I.-based Synthetic Data?

August 20, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

Time to Investigate A.I.-based Synthetic Data?

The phenomenon of “synthetic data” — which is data that once artificially generated replicates the statistical properties of real data — is a potential new tool on the horizon for investment management operations because it can be used to improve model training, portfolio optimization, stress testing, and risk analysis, according to James Tait, an affiliate… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, IBOR, Back Office, Data Management, Ops Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Digital Transformation, FinTech Trends, Integration, Standards, Performance Analytics, Performance Attribution, Performance Measurement, Portfolio Management, KYC Tagged With: A.I., automation, back office, data management, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), portfolio optimization, risk analytics, Securities Operations, Standards, stress testing, synthetic data

SS&C Unifies Its Wealth Management Solutions: Q&A

August 20, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

SS&C Unifies Its Wealth Management Solutions: Q&A

(Earlier this month, SS&C Technologies launched SS&C Black Diamond Wealth Solutions, a suite that unifies SS&C’s Black Diamond Wealth Platform with SS&C’s full suite of wealth management solutions. The combination is a way to help wealth managers better manage technology and operations in a single location, according to SS&C. The SS&C Black Diamond Wealth Solutions… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Operational Risk, Outsourcing, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Sell-Side, Settlement, Artificial Intelligence, Back-Office, Integration, Standards, Opinion, Q&As Tagged With: automation, back office, Black Diamond, Black Diamond IMS, Black Diamond Wealth Platform, data management, portfolio accounting, Securities Operations, SS&C, SS&C Technologies, wall street

SEC Tackles Big Questions About U.S. Treasury Clearing

August 20, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

SEC Tackles Big Questions About U.S. Treasury Clearing

For nearly everything that broker-dealers and other market participants want to know about the clearing of U.S. Treasury securities, officials at the Division of Trading and Markets of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have compiled a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). The level of interest in the clearing of U.S. Treasuries is peaking… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Industry News, Operational Risk, Opinion, Minding the Gap, Portfolio Management, KYC, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Enforcement, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, compliance, data management, regulation, Securities Operations, US Treasurries, US Treasury clearing, US treasury markets, wall street

Key ICE Data Feeds Coming to Chainlink Service

August 20, 2025 by FTF News

Key ICE Data Feeds Coming to Chainlink Service

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is collaborating with blockchain solutions provider Chainlink to incorporate foreign exchange (FX) and precious metals rates from the ICE Consolidated Feed into the Chainlink Data Streams data set, according to officials. The ICE Consolidated Feed offers “content from over 300 global exchanges and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Exchanges, Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Digital Asset Custody, Digital Transformation, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Integration, Standards Tagged With: automation, back office, blockchain, compliance, data management, ICE, Intercontinental Exchange, Nyse, Securities Operations, Standards, wall street

SEC Debuts Stats & Data Visualizations Webpage

August 20, 2025 by FTF News

SEC Debuts Stats & Data Visualizations Webpage

Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) say that they are bringing greater transparency to public markets via the launch of a statistics and data visualization page that offers statistics and graphics on initial public offerings, exempt offerings, corporate bond offerings, reporting issuers, municipal advisors, transfer agents, and household participation in the capital markets…. Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, Digital Transformation, Back-Office, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting Tagged With: automation, back office, data mangement, data visualization, enterprise data, Securities Operations, statistics, US Securities and Exchange Commission, wall street

Canadian Regulator Probing Cybersecurity Threat

August 20, 2025 by FTF News

Canadian Regulator Probing Cybersecurity Threat

The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) identified a cybersecurity threat on August 11, and as a precaution, “proactively shut down some of its systems to ensure their safety and immediately started an investigation. Throughout this time, critical functions remained available,” CIRO officials say. “CIRO’s real-time equity market surveillance operations continue as normal, with no active… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Data Management, Industry News, Operational Risk, Sell-Side, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Regulatory Enforcement, Cybersecurity, Regulatory Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: Canada, Canadian markets, CIRO, cybersecurity protection, cybersecurity regulation, data management, governance, operational risk, Securities Operations

Ultimus Expands Partnership with Xceptor

August 13, 2025 by FTF News

Ultimus Expands Partnership with Xceptor

Ultimus Fund Solutions and Xceptor, maker of data automation platforms for financial markets, have expanded their six-year partnership to help Ultimus’ clients streamline operations and reduce risk, officials say. Ultimus offers fund administration, accounting, and investor solutions. The expanded partnership encompasses “global verticals and business lines” that use the data automation and reconciliation of Ultimus’… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, IBOR, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Hedge Fund Operations, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Artificial Intelligence Tagged With: automation, back office, data mangement, fund administration, fund valuation data, Securities Operations, Standards

‘Suboptimal Ops’ Will Fail via T+1 in U.K. & E.U.

August 13, 2025 by Faye Kilburn

‘Suboptimal Ops’ Will Fail via T+1 in U.K. & E.U.

(John Bevil, a senior product manager at data automation platform provider Xceptor, recently took questions from FTF News about a key European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) report on the E.U.’s transition to T+1 settlement and some of the lessons learned from the U.S. adoption. Bevil says that he has watched the financial services industry’s… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Clearing, Corporate Actions, Data Management, FX Operations, Operational Risk, Ops Automation, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Sell-Side, Settlement, T+1 Settlement, Opinion, Q&As, Regulation & Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, compliance, data management, SEC, Securities Operations, settlement, Standards, T+! transition, T+1 settlement

Rimes to Offer CanDeal Bond Pricing Data

August 13, 2025 by Eugene Grygo

Rimes to Offer CanDeal Bond Pricing Data

Rimes has integrated into its data service Canadian fixed income reference pricing services and a security master offering from the CanDeal Group in an effort to bring new transparency to the opaque Canadian bond market, officials say. Officials at Rimes, which offers enterprise data management and investment platform solutions, say the CanDeal Data & Analytics… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Ops Automation Tagged With: back office, bond data, bond data manageent, Canadian bond market, data mangement, operations, Securities Operations, security master, wall street

Broadridge Adds BMLL’s Analytics to OMS & EMS Offerings

August 13, 2025 by FTF News

Broadridge Adds BMLL’s Analytics to OMS & EMS Offerings

A provider of systems and services for securities operations, Broadridge Financial Solutions is partnering with BMLL Technologies, a provider of Level 3 historical market data and analytics, to offer pre-trade analytics capabilities for Broadridge’s global sell-side order management system (OMS) and Xilix execution management system (EMS) for buy-side firms in Japan, officials say. “Working with… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Affirmation, Allocation & Confirmation, Back Office, Buy-Side, Data Management, Operational Risk, Outsourcing, Sell-Side Tagged With: automation, back office, data management, datasets, EMS, insights, OMS, Securities Operations, trade analytics

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