Latest Post-trade & ops News: Finextra Research

Banks have LEIs for only 15% of their corporate hierarchies - Alacra

Regulatory SaaS technology leader Opus announced today that Alacra, its Know Your Customer (KYC) and reference data management platform for financial institutions, has issued the latest edition of Inside the LEI issue IX, its regular newsletter on Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs).

12 May 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Japan's SBI Holdings looks to raise $275m for fintech fund

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings has set its stall out as a central player in the fintech ecosystem, promising to aggressively adopt new technology and build a network of startups through a $275 million venture fund.

12 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Acadian signs with Markit for enterprise data management

Markit (Nasdaq: MRKT), a global provider of financial information services, today announced Acadian Asset Management LLC as its latest managed services enterprise data management (EDM) customer.

11 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Broadridge acquires Dojima to add derivatives clearing to post-trade platform

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) today announced that it has broadened its Global Post Trade Management (GPTM) solution, adding exchangetraded derivatives functionality through the acquisition of Dojima LLC.

11 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Haitong International goes live with Phase 2 of GBST implementation

GBST Holdings Limited (ASX: GBT), “GBST”, a global provider of securities transaction and fund administration software for the financial services industry, announces the next phase of its Syn~ capital markets platform implementation at Haitong International Securities Group Limited (“Haitong International”, Stock Code: 665.HK) has successfully gone live.

11 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

ITG to sell research arm

ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell ITG Investment Research to Leucadia National Corporation (NYSE:LUK), a diversified holding company.

10 May 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Banks should move towards MiFID II impact analysis

Jeremy Taylor, Strategy Owner, Capital Markets, GFT, gives an in-depth overview of MiFID II and how banks should be preparing for implementation.

09 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

DTCC signs trade repository MoU with Korea Exchange

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and the Korea Exchange (KRX), the sole securities and derivatives exchange operator in South Korea, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate with each other on a Trade Repository (TR) solution in Korea.

09 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Swift Institute on blockchain: Industry-wide buy in required

New research published by the SWIFT Institute investigates the practical application of blockchain (or mutual distributed ledger) technologies in securities markets.

09 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Bloomberg seeks LEI accreditation

Bloomberg announced today it has applied to the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, or GLEIF, to become a Local Operating Unit, or LOU, of the Global LEI System, or GLEIS.

05 May 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

The marketplace of ‘application component economy’

Misha Gavronsky, VP, EPAM, defines the term ‘application component economy’ and how open enterprise application stores for components contributes to digital transformation of wealth management.

05 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Deloitte teams up with five blockchain startups

Deloitte announced this morning that it is working with five prominent blockchain companies – BlockCypher, Bloq, ConsenSys, Loyyal (formerly known as Ribbit.me) and the Stellar Development Foundation – to provide new technological capabilities to its global financial institution clientbase.

03 May 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

MIFID II delay allows planning and redesign

Mark Bisker, SVP, Banking and Financial Services, EPAM, discusses the MIFID II delays and how market participants should manage the extra time.

03 May 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Change is costly, but so is doing nothing

Tom Carey, President, Global Technology & Operations Solutions, International, Broadridge, speaks about post-trade processing transformation in capital markets and how any issues due to cost and complexity of change can be handled.

03 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Calypso forms cloud-based clearing alliance with Sernova Financial

Calypso Technology Inc., a leading provider of capital markets software, and Sernova Financial, an innovative provider of turn-key post-trade services, today announced a partnership to deliver next-generation, cloud-based clearing services.

03 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Broadridge launches post-trade management tool

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR) today announced the introduction of its Global Post Trade Management (GPTM) solution, a next generation offering that allows investment banks and broker-dealers to transform their operating models to gain operational and cost efficiency.

03 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Schroders signs new five year deal with Bravura Solutions

Bravura Solutions Pty Limited (Bravura) today announced a new five-year contract with global asset management company Schroders.

03 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

ESMA amends MiFID II derivatives standards

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today two Opinions proposing amendments to its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTSs) under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).

03 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

TriOptima reconciles data to DTCC and GTR

TriOptima, the award-winning post trade infrastructure provider, announces today that its triResolve Repository Reconciliation service is actively reconciling data reported to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) by institutions regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).

03 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Sea Otter selects Tbricks by Itiviti to grow ETF business

Itiviti, a world-leading technology provider for the capital markets industry, today announced that Sea Otter Global Ventures LLC, a private investment firm based in New York, has chosen the Tbricks by Itiviti platform for ETF market making on NYSE Arca.

03 May 2016