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Wall Street Heavyweights Back Open Source Project for Blockchain

December 23, 2015 by Louis Chunovic

Blockchain technology, with distributed-ledger potential that has excited much of the financial services world, has gotten a big boost from the Linux Foundation, the San Francisco-based open source nonprofit founded in 2000, which reports the launch of a broadly based open source initiative. “The project will develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework… Read More >>

Filed Under: Settlement, General Interest, FinTech Trends, Blockchain/DLT, Industry News Tagged With: Accenture, ANZ Bank, blockchain, Cicsco Systems, CLS Credits, Deutsche Borse, Digital Asset Holdings, DTCC, Fujitsu, Hyperledger, IBM, IC3, Intel, JPMorgan, Linux Foundation, London Stock Exchange Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, open source, R3, State Street, SWIFT, VMware, Wells Fargo

Blockchain Startup Digital Asset Hires Conde and Church

December 16, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

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 >>

Filed Under: Settlement, General Interest, FinTech Trends, Blockchain/DLT, Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: blockchain, blythe masters, Chris Church, Cristobal Conde, cryptocurrency, Digital Asset Holdings, fintech startup, SunGard, SWIFT

KYC Demands Cause ‘Immense’ Data Burdens for Firms

December 15, 2015 by Pauline McCallion

Providers are targeting the increasingly important know your customer (KYC) space in an attempt to ease the “immense” data management burden firms are reportedly experiencing in this area of financial services compliance. Solutions designed to support data management in relation to regulatory issues such as KYC anti-money laundering controls continue to attract users looking for… Read More >>

Filed Under: Data Management, Risk Management, FinTech Trends, Integration, KYC, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: Avox, Clarient Entity Hub, compliance, counterparty data, data management, DTCC, Fenergo, Know Your Customer, KYC, KYC registry, operational risk, risk management, SWIFT

SWIFT’s Innotribe Crowns Hyperledger

October 15, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

At the Sibos conference in Singapore, SWIFT’s fintech innovation division Innotribe has named newcomer Hyperledger as the winner of the 2015 Innotribe Startup Challenge, giving the vendor exposure and a $50,000 cash prize. On its website, Hyperledger says it “uses revolutionary shared, replicated ledgers technology to provide a trustful, universal record of truth not controlled… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Reconciliation & Exceptions, Risk Management, Settlement, FinTech Trends, KYC, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: Banco Santander, Blockchain technology, Daniel O’Prey, Hyperledger, Innotribe, KYC registry, Sibos, startup, SWIFT

DTCC Confronts the Systemic Risks of Being Too Connected

October 14, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Post-trade market infrastructure provider the DTCC is spreading the notion at SWIFT’s Sibos event that the global financial services ecosystem is now so tightly linked that it is creating a new, higher level of risk where one connection in a key chain of systems could fail and cause a lot of damage to all connected… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Industry News, Operational Risk, Risk Management, General Interest, FinTech Trends, Industry News Tagged With: Andrew Gray, DTCC, interconnectedness, Michael Leibrock, Sibos, SWIFT, systemic risk

SWIFT Price Cuts Deeper than Expected

October 13, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

SWIFT’s five-year, SWIFT2015 strategy to shrink its pricing for its messaging services has beat the cooperative’s expectations because of “strong” traffic growth, cost controls and pricing schemes, resulting in a 57 percent price reduction expected by the end of this year. Officials from the cooperative announced the strategy result at SWIFT’s annual Sibos gathering, underway… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Data Management, Middle-Office, Operational Risk, Risk Management, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Standards, KYC, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance Tagged With: compliance, counterparties, data management, EMIR, FATCA, Financial Crime, KYC, LEIs, MiFID II, operational risk, risk management, Sibos, SWIFT

Gresham Rethinks the Cloud as Broadridge Gets Local

October 13, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Third-party vendors Gresham Computing and Broadridge Financial Solutions are launching new offerings, timed for SWIFT’s Sibos gathering in Singapore this week. Gresham has done “a rethink” for its cloud-based Clareti Transaction Control (CTC) offering, and Broadridge is expanding its proxy processing services. Rethinking the Cloud In many ways, Gresham’s new Clareti-as-a-Service offering, is a relaunch…. Read More >>

Filed Under: FTF Bull Run Blog, Securities Operations, Corporate Actions, Industry News, Ops Automation, Outsourcing, Reconciliation & Exceptions Tagged With: automation, Broadridge, cloud, Gresham Computing, Proxy Voting, Sibos, SWIFT, T2S, Target2Securities

Sibos Preview: Time to Harmonize ISO 20022-based Ops?

October 12, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Harmonization around the ISO 20022 standard will be one of the key themes at the Sibos annual gathering of the financial messaging cooperative SWIFT, underway this week in Singapore at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre of the Marina Bay Sands complex. As the ISO 20022 standard has been gaining ground among industry players, SWIFT… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Corporate Actions, Industry News, Middle-Office, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Standards, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: corporate actions processing, DTCC, harmonization, ISO 20022, messaging, Sibos 2015, Standards, SWIFT

SWIFT Survey Finds Jump in Corporate Actions Projects

October 5, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

A joint survey of 117 organizations conducted by financial messaging cooperative SWIFT and specialist consultancy CityIQ finds that the investment in automation tools for corporate actions processing has grown since the last survey in 2012 because firms have to cope with increases in volume and client demands, and need to cut costs while improving the… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Corporate Actions, Ops Automation, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards Tagged With: CityIQ, corporate actions, financial messaging, ISO 15022, ISO 20022, SWIFT

Mongolian Bank Deploys NRI’s Custodian System

September 29, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a consulting services and system solutions vendor, reports that Golomt Bank of Mongolia has gone live with NRI’s custody solution, which will help the bank establish its custodian services, officials say. Golomt Bank, which has been introducing initiatives to accelerate development in the region’s financial sector, is the first custodian bank… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Corporate Actions, Industry News, Settlement, General Interest, Industry News Tagged With: Custodian bank, custodian services, Golomt Bank, Mongolia, Mongolian Financial Regulatory Commission, Nomura Research Institute (NRI), SWIFT, Toru Watanabe, XLS, XML, Zorig Gongorjav

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