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Broadridge Applies Blockchain/DLT to Proxy Process

April 12, 2017 by Eugene Grygo

JPMorgan, Northern Trust & Banco Santander Aid Broadridge Pilot   This is the season for blockchain/distributed ledger technology pilots as Broadridge Financial Solutions, JPMorgan, Northern Trust and Banco Santander have announced that they been working on a pilot test project that uses blockchain technology to improve “global proxy vote transparency and analytics,” officials say. The… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Ops Automation, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Blockchain/DLT, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: Banco Santander, blockchain, Boston Financial Data Services (BFDS), Broadridge, distributed ledger technology (DLT), DST Systems, International Financial Data Services (IFDS U.K.), JPMorgan, Northern Trust, Proxy Voting, SIX Financial Information, State Street Corp.

SEF for Rolling Hemp-Backed Trades Joins FinTech Sandbox

September 8, 2016 by Eugene Grygo

Seed CX, a Chicago-based, new swap execution facility (SEF) for trading hemp as a commodity, has just been selected by the FinTech Sandbox to join its community of innovators, an opportunity that follows shortly after the CFTC approved the SEF. The SeedCX SEF’s mission is to help agricultural market participants to hedge risk and to… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Securities Operations, Industry News, General Interest, Industry News Tagged With: .406 Ventures, Agriculture Act of 2014, Amazon Web Services, Brian Liston, CFTC, CME Group, F-Prime Capital, Fidelity Investments, FinTech Sandbox, global hemp production and trade, Goodwin Procter, hemp cultivation, hemp trade, hemp-back instruments, Intel, Morningstar, Seed CX, SeedCX, SEF, Silicon Valley Bank, SIX Financial Information, Stockwits, swap execution facility, the Farm Bill, Thomson Reuters

Christian Katz, Swiss Exchange CEO, to Step Down

April 23, 2015 by Ryan Boysen

Christian Katz, Division CEO of SIX Swiss Exchange, has decided to leave SIX Financial, officials say. His decision is based on “diverging views on the strategic direction and on the further development of the business area” for Swiss Exchange, a company statement says. Katz has headed SIX Swiss Exchange since 2009. Under Katz’s leadership SIX… Read More >>

Filed Under: Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: SIX Financial Information, Swiss Exchange

SIX Financial Hires Industry Vet Phil Lynch

April 2, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Industry veteran Phil Lynch is the new global head of markets, products and strategy, at SIX Financial Information, confirm officials at the market data and services provider, based in Zurich, Switzerland. “Mr. Lynch is part of SIX. He actually started working for SIX Financial Information yesterday, April 1,” says a company spokesperson in an email… Read More >>

Filed Under: Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: CFTC, compliance, data management, Dodd-Frank, operations, SIX Financial Information, SunGard

CFTC Delays Swap Package Execution as SIX Financial Launches FATCA Service

February 11, 2014 by Eugene Grygo

Bowing to industry concerns, the CFTC has delayed a requirement that swap packages be transacted via swap execution facilities (SEFs), and has clarified that the mandatory SEF-based trading of interest rate swaps and index credit default swaps will begin on Feb. 15. Swap packages were granted a reprieve from the SEF mandate via a no-action… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, General Interest, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: CFTC, Deutsche Bank, DTCC, FATCA, isda, SEF, SIX Financial Information, swap data repository, swap execution facility, Westport Capital

ISDA Defines a New Credit Event as Gaia and Numerix Take on EMIR

February 4, 2014 by Maureen Lowe

New Credit Event Part of ISDA’s 2014 Derivative Definitions The 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions to come in September will introduce several new terms and a new credit event that would be triggered by a government bail-in of a financial reference entity, according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. The version to come in… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Data Management, General Interest, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance, Industry News Tagged With: EMIR, Gaia Transparence, INDATA, Ingenious Initiatives, isda, Numerix, SIX Financial Information, SmartStream, SunGard

J.P. Morgan Re-Masters Its Reference Data Operations

January 21, 2014 by Eugene Grygo

(Editor’s Note: This story will appear in the Winter/Spring digital edition of the FTF News magazine, which will be online next month.) J.P. Morgan’s realignment of its investment-banking and Worldwide Securities Services businesses has yielded not only the Corporate & Investment Bank unit but has led to an overhaul of its reference data operations. The… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Data Management, FinTech Trends, Back-Office Tagged With: Bloomberg, Interactive Data Corp, J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, Ludwig D'Angelo, Moody's Fitch, reference data, SIX Financial Information, Standard & Poor's, Thomson Reuters

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