SWIFT, the DTCC and AcadiaSoft, maker of a margin messaging platform, are exploring ways via preliminary tests with clients to standardize an infrastructure for bilateral and tri-party collateral management settlement. But some industry observers want independent industry groups without a profit motive to lead these much-needed efforts to end manual processes and reduce systemic and… Read More >>
Filling the Leadership Void
As financial services firms scramble to comply with the onslaught of new regulations, they also have to contend with an absence of leadership among industry bodies tasked with helping create the new rules of the road. Yet the need for strong leadership is becoming more critical and a membership survey by the ISITC trade group… Read More >>
Misys and MarkitSERV Tackle NDF Clearing
Fund management clients of the Misys Confirmation Matching Service (CMS) asked Misys to help them meet their regulatory requirement by mid-year to clear non-deliverable forward (NDF) trades based on convertible foreign currency. This led to a partnership with MarkitSERV, an over-the counter (OTC) derivative transactions clearing gateway, to transport these FX derivatives to central counterparty… Read More >>
FinTech Spotlight: Electra, Eze Castle Integration and SWIFT
(Editor’s Note: This week we focus on new offerings from Electra Information Systems and Eze Castle Integration, and a challenge from SWIFT’s Innotribe group.) Electra Debuts Quantum Fee Calculation System Post-trade solutions provider Electra Information Systems has officially moved into the fee calculation and invoicing realm with the launch of the Quantum software system that… Read More >>
Sibos Osaka Update
In an attempt to bring more automation to post trade operations, global financial messaging provider SWIFT has tapped reconciliation solutions vendor SmartStream Technologies to develop a cloud-based version of the SWIFT confirmation matching platform, dubbed Accord, say officials at the Sibos 2012 conference underway in Osaka, Japan. The SWIFT event is at the INTEX center… Read More >>
Making Strides to Improve Corporate Actions Services
Service providers that notify clients of corporate actions have to be change agents if they want customers to replace fax machines and manual processes with XML-based standards, web-based applications, SWIFT services and mobile devices, according to a panel discussion at the Sixth Annual Corporate Actions Processing Conference, presented last week by Financial Technologies Forum (FTF)…. Read More >>
Douglas Jeffrey Leaves Information Mosaic as SWIFT Plans to Hire in Asia-Pacific
Jeffrey Leaves Information Mosaic Industry veteran Douglas Jeffrey has left his post as president for the Americas for Information Mosaic and is working with Recondo Technology, a software as a service (Saas) provider for the healthcare industry. Jeffrey confirms that he is the New York-based vice president for strategic accounts at Recondo, which provides Web-based,… Read More >>
FinTech Products Update
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) has moved into the third phase of its corporate actions messaging overhaul with a new corporate actions pilot program intended to test ISO 20022 messages that incorporate all stages of distribution events from entitlements and payments to instructions.During the first two phases of the overhaul, DTCC officials upgraded… Read More >>
The CICI Utility Launches
As expected, the DTCC and SWIFT have launched a Web-based utility as part of their recently designated roles as interim service providers for the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) for legal entities that participate in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives trading. The website www.ciciutility.org follows the CFTC’s plan to establish a CICI utility that issues identifiers to… Read More >>
BNY Mellon Embraces a Corporate Actions Standard
Custody bank BNY Mellon has taken a major step forward in the complex process of moving toward a new corporate actions infrastructure by going live with a standard-based messaging solution from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. (DTCC). BNY Mellon went live with the new standards-based offering on July 30, marking the start of… Read More >>
