SIX is working with Eagle Investment Systems to make it possible for Eagle clients to source sanctions data directly from SIX’s Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service. An expanded alliance between the two vendors is intended to help end-users streamline efforts to “validate and align sanctions data with existing portfolio data, helping firms minimize the risk of… Read More >>
Firms Faced ‘Unprecedented Regulatory Change’ in 2017: Q&A
(Editor’s note: SIX won the Service Provider of the Year honor via the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2018 and we wanted to explore why the company was the top vote-getter for that category. FTF News got a chance recently to interview Robert Jeanbart, head of financial information and member of the executive board… 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 >>
SEC Charges KPMG, Deloitte & BDO Units with Improper Audits
SEC Focuses On Foreign Affiliates of Auditors The SEC has charged foreign affiliates of KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, and BDO for “their involvement in audit work that circumvented the full oversight of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).” The auditors have settled the charges by paying penalties or disgorging their profits from the audits,… Read More >>
SIX Securities Teams with Confinale for New Tax Service
SIX Securities Services, the post-trade group at Swiss financial infrastructure provider SIX, has teamed up with tax consultancy and software developer Confinale to launch a new Tax Reclaim Service on Jan. 1, 2017 with Raiffeisen Switzerland as its first pilot client. The service, which is part of the SIX Securities Advanced Tax Services, aims to… Read More >>
