A recent white paper from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) endorses a global response to ongoing and worsening cyber-attacks upon financial services firms while laying out the specifics of the current worldwide situation. Spoiler alert: The current global situation is not good. To address the expected rough times… Read More >>
State Street to Service T. Rowe Price’s Active ETFs
State Street to Provide a Range of Services Rowe Price has appointed State Street as the service provider for four, newly launched active exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are listed on NYSE Arca, Inc. “As part of the agreement, State Street will provide services including basket creation, dissemination, settlement, custody, fund accounting, order-taking, financial reporting, performance… Read More >>
ISITC’s Workaround for SWIFT & Negative Trading Prices
The Derivatives Working Group of ISITC, a securities industry standards group, is helping to spotlight a problem that has gotten lost in the shuffle of a pandemic and sudden recession. Essentially, how do users of the SWIFT financial messaging network process negative trading prices on commodity futures? “The effort was spurred by recent market event… Read More >>
Commcise Launches Commission Management Service
‘Commission-Management-As-A-Service’ Debuts Commcise, a provider of integrated commission management, research evaluation, consumption tracking and reporting solutions for investment management and brokerage firms, reports the launch of CommciseCM, a stand-alone, cloud-based commission management platform designed to help U.S. asset managers and hedge funds obtain a “full commission wallet view of their entire trading activity.” CommciseCM, majority-owned… Read More >>
Custodians Are Embracing APIs: Report
The securities servicing industry, according to a new survey, is reaching a “tipping point” in its embrace of application program interfaces (APIs), which are those key links among software systems that serve as superhighways for data, and are intended to help firms boost efficiency and adopt to new business models. The new report from SWIFT… Read More >>
SWIFT Says FX Ops Needs ISO 20022
Financial services messaging consortium SWIFT is calling for the increased automation of foreign exchange (FX) transactions via more standards that will ease data exchanges and will facilitate the nirvana of straight through processing (STP). “By removing barriers to exchange, standards always increase the amount of business done,” according to “The Value of Standards in the… Read More >>
SWIFT Picks a New President
Pérez-Tasso to Replace Leibbrandt on July 1 Javier Pérez-Tasso has been appointed the new CEO of SWIFT, and he will replace Gottfried Leibbrandt on July 1. Leibbrandt previously announced at the end of last year that he would be stepping down at the end of June. Pérez-Tasso has been a member of the SWIFT executive… Read More >>
SWIFT Report Focuses On Evolving Cyber Threats
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, a member-owned cooperative founded in 1973 that provides financial messaging services, has published its latest report on cyber threats. The report is entitled “Three years on from Bangladesh: tackling the adversaries,” and its focus is the “evolving nature of the cyber threats facing the global financial… Read More >>
ISITC to Scrutinize Disruptive IT at Spring Summit
David Scola, head of North America for the SWIFT financial messaging and services cooperative, will dive into the impacts of disruptive technologies such as open application programming interfaces (APIs), distributed ledger technology (DLT), artificial intelligence and machine learning at ISITC’s 25th Annual Securities Operations Summit later this month in Boston. Scola is serving as moderator… Read More >>
SWIFT’s CEO Will Step Down in June 2019
Gottfried Leibbrandt, the CEO of the financial messaging and systems cooperative SWIFT, is stepping down from his post after seven years during which the organization endured major industry shifts and a major hacking scandal. Leibbrandt notified the SWIFT board of his intention to step down at the end of June 2019, officials say. SWIFT officials… Read More >>
