A very warm spring has come to the New York City area this week and coincidentally we are debuting a new online magazine from FTF News (a printed version is also available). To underscore our new commitment to magazine journalism, we have renamed the publication “FTF Focus,” and for this special edition, we took on… Read More >>
Q&A: Asia-Pacific Could Beat U.S. to T+2
A new report from market research firm Celent focuses on firms in Asia-Pacific and how Europe’s successful move to shorter settlement is affecting them. The report, “Europe T+2: Is Asia-Pacific Ready?” focuses on how A-P firms, which settle transactions on trade data plus three business days (T+3), are coping with the shorter T+2 (two business… Read More >>
ISITC to Join the T+2 Push in the U.S.
The push for a shortened settlement cycle in the U.S. will be a key part of the agenda for the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) during 2015, says Jeffrey Zoller, the chair of the trade processing standards group. In the U.S., the securities industry settles trades in equities and certain debt securities… Read More >>
FTF Panel: U.S. Markets Should Move to T+0
A panelist at FTF’s ReCon New York event on Thursday is calling for the U.S. securities industry to move to a T+0 settlement cycle rather than the incremental move to T+2, citing the truism that nothing good happens between trade date and settlement. That’s a phrase heard often from operations managers, and it was heard… Read More >>
