Akber Jaffer Replaces Haytham Kaddoura as CEO SmartStream, the post-trade operations solutions provider, has appointed Akber Jaffer as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective September 19. Jaffer replaces Haytham Kaddoura, who has stepped down from the CEO post. Kaddoura will join SmartStream’s board. Jaffer has “spent several years immersed in both start-up and scaled… Read More >>
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Target Margining Rules
OpenGamma & IHS Markit Begin Collaboration OpenGamma, which characterizes itself as a margin optimization provider, reports a new collaboration with IHS Markit, which characterizes itself as a provider of critical securities information, analytics and solutions. The vendors are jointly offering a system for mutual clients looking to reduce the cost of margin management. Their offering… Read More >>
SmartStream Embraces AI Algorithms for Recs
Timed for the SWIFT Sibos exposition and conference this week in London, SmartStream Technologies has launched a cloud-based offering, SmartStream Air, that the vendor says reconciles complex sets of data in seconds with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The new offering, developed via the SmartStream Innovation Lab, can “auto-configure reconciliations of any data… Read More >>
Watson Wheatley Wins Three Clients for Hosted Service
Watson Wheatley Signs Firms in Europe & Hong Kong Reconciliation solutions vendor, Watson Wheatley, reports that it has signed three new clients — firms based in Hong Kong and Southern Europe — for its hosting platform created specifically for the iRecs system. The vendor is not naming the new clients. “Following competitive bidding processes… Read More >>
Northern Trust Launches Performance Analytics Tool
Northern Trust’s ‘Radar’ Helps with Performance Insight Northern Trust has launched a proprietary reporting tool to help institutional investors gain insights as they track and analyze risk and performance across their portfolios, officials say. The Performance Radar offering is the latest addition to Northern Trust’s Investment Risk and Analytical Services (IRAS) group, and is intended… Read More >>
SmartStream Argues for the Utility Approach
(Editor’s note: SmartStream took home the award for Best Operational Risk Management Solution in this year’s FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition for its Reference Data Utility (RDU) offering. Among its many aspects, the RDU provides a security master that was created “in close association with demanding global institutions,” according to SmartStream. The RDU is a… Read More >>
Voters Reward Disruptive & Established Providers via FTF Awards
NEW YORK CITY — A mix of disruptive and established technology providers have made the winner’s circle of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards (the FTF Awards), which Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) is revealing today. For instance, for the Best Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Initiative, the winner is Synechron while TCS BaNCS and its Quartz effort… Read More >>
SmartStream Partners with Cassini to Ease IM Compliance
Post-trade services and systems vendor SmartStream Technologies is partnering with Cassini Systems, a margin analytics vendor serving the buy side in derivatives trading, in an effort to ease the operational burden of managing initial margin requirements for uncleared, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. The vendors will focus on financial institutions that are beginning the create new operational… Read More >>
Get Ready for More Regulatory Compliance Changes: Q&A
(FTF News got time with Kurt Eldridge, executive vice president, global head of sales at SmartStream Technologies, to talk about the regulatory road ahead and about SmartStream’s win as Best RegTech Solution via the FTF News Technology Innovation awards. At SmartStream, Eldridge oversees the global sales team and its associated revenue-generating activities. He became part… Read More >>
FlexTrade, SmartStream Take On MiFID II
FlexTrade Integrates SmartStream RDU for MiFID II FlexTrade and SmartStream report the integration of SmartStream’s reference data utility (RDU) with FlexTrade’s execution management system (EMS). The integration “offers mutual clients the ability to embed SmartStream RDU’s Systematic Internaliser (SI) registry information directly into the send order ticket, providing … clarity on counterparty SI status, prior… Read More >>
