(In the past, some financial services firms have been known to follow the mantra of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” notes Mark Bolton, head of international sales for Gresham Technologies. Yet the financial technology landscape has been changing fast and firms will have to keep up or risk having “solutions that are unable… Read More >>
FIS to Invest $150M in FinTech Startups
FIS Ventures to Fund ‘Flutterwave’ Financial technology specialist vendor FIS reports that its new “corporate venture investment division” FIS Ventures has launched “an effort to invest a target of $150 million in promising fintech startups over the next three years.” The first FIS Ventures investment is in Flutterwave, a Lagos, Nigeria and San Francisco-based… Read More >>
BNP Paribas Moves to Automated Margin Calculation
BNP Paribas has decided to automate its process of assessing and calculating initial margin requirements for cleared derivatives portfolios by deploying the FIS Cleared Derivatives Margin Advisor, a cloud-based solution that the French bank expects will help it contain costs. The self-service offering from the U.S. vendor FIS is intended to help sell-side firms, investment… Read More >>
SEC Shuffles Personnel in Chief Accountant’s Office
SEC Names Interim Chief Accountant as Deputy Chief Accountant to Exit The SEC reports that Wesley R. Bricker has been named the interim chief accountant, heading the commission’s office of the chief accountant, while Chief Accountant James V. Schnurr “recovers from a serious bicycle accident.” In his interim post, Bricker will be the “principal advisor… Read More >>
Brexit Roundup: A Leave Vote is Bad for the U.S.
(Editor’s note: As the U.K. votes today on whether or not to stay with the E.U., FTF News decided to pull together some predictions and reactions from this side of the pond. All of the quoted material is available online for further investigation.) SIFMA Roundtable Predicts U.K. to Stay In a statement dated June 14,… Read More >>
ICE Promotes to Fill Senior Management Posts
ICE Promotes Senior Managers Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the operator of clearinghouses, data services and such exchanges as the New York Stock Exchange, reports the following senior management moves: Ben Jackson, president and chief operating officer (COO) of ICE Futures U.S., has been named to the newly created post of ICE chief commercial officer, where… Read More >>
Digital Asset Lands A-List Backers and $50M in Funding
Digital Asset Holdings, LLC, a New York City-based developer of distributed-ledger technology for the financial services industry, reports that it has “raised more than $50 million in funding” from several prominent financial industry players. The company’s new investors are: ABN AMRO, Accenture, ASX Ltd., BNP Paribas, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., Citi, CME Ventures, Deutsche Börse… Read More >>
Blockchain Startup Digital Asset Hires Conde and Church
Blockchain technology startup Digital Asset Holdings has hired industry veterans Cristóbal Conde, the former head of SunGard, and Chris Church, a North American executive for the SWIFT cooperative, underscoring the disruptive distributed ledger technology’s ability to bring together old and new school technologies and practices. The Blockchain ledger underpins the Bitcoin cryptocurrency by keeping track… Read More >>
Vendors Are Rushing to Fill Voids in Ops Offerings
Front-office financial technology vendors are moving quickly to expand their reach into the middle and back office while traditional portfolio accounting systems providers are moving upstream into the middle office in attempts to provide a fuller suite of asset management operational services, according to a new report from market research firm Celent, a division of… Read More >>
FIS Gets a Catapult via SunGard Acquisition
Banking and payments technology vendor FIS has completed its $9.3 billion acquisition of SunGard, marking a new chapter for the technology and services giant with many operations offerings for securities firms. The acquisition “uniquely positions [FIS] to offer a broad range of retail, enterprise and wholesale banking and payments capabilities that will further empower the… Read More >>
