Infront Acquires Assetmax

Financial solutions vendor Infront AS has entered an agreement to acquire Swiss asset management software company Assetmax for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will strengthen Infront’s product offering for wealth management customers across Europe. Assetmax launched its first product in 2016 and expects revenues of approximately EUR 5.5m for 2022, having achieved 35% CAGR between 2018 and 2021.

The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of September at the latest, subject to conditions.

Finbourne to Offer Denominator DEI Data on its LUSID Platform

Financial institutions have a new way to assess the S factor in their ESG investments. Finbourne Technology has signed a deal to offer Denominator’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) data to the buy-side. The information will be integrated into Finbourne’s LUSID investment management platform.

Baton Systems Adds OCC to Collateral Management Network

Post-trade fintech Baton Systems has expanded its Baton Core-Collateral network to include connectivity to the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC).

Baton’s Core-Collateral solution enables Clearing Members to automate and optimise their collateral management processes by providing intraday visibility of current margin obligations and collateral holdings at chosen CCPs. With the addition of OCC, clearing firms will be able to automate collateral management across 11 major CCPs globally, together comprising more than 93% of margin, placed by U.S. registered FCMs.

DTCC’s Project Ion Goes Live, Processing Over 100,000 Transactions Per Day on DLT

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the market infrastructure provider, has gone live in a parallel production environment with the Project Ion platform, an alternative equities settlement platform that leverages distributed ledger technology (DLT). The platform is now parallel processing an average of over 100,000 bilateral equity transactions per day, and almost 160,000 transactions on peak days.

DTCC claims that Project Ion represents one of the largest DLT initiatives in equities settlement across the financial services industry. DTCC partnered with enterprise technology provider R3 to develop and launch the Project Ion platform, leveraging R3’s Corda DLT software.

Norges Bank Investment Management Completes First Trade on Appital Turquoise Book Builder

Appital, the equity capital markets technology solution, and Turquoise, the pan-European MTF majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group, have gone live with the Appital Turquoise BookBuilder, with Norges Bank Investment Management successfully originating and executing the first trade, through a series of bilateral transactions.

According to Appital, this is the world’s first algorithmic buy side to buy-side bookbuilding platform that enables institutional investors to proactively participate in liquidity discovery, price formation and execution opportunities in multiple days’ volume in listed equities. EMS vendors connected at the time of first trade included Flextrade, Factset’s Portware and TS Imagine.

Push Technology Adds Enhanced Monitoring Capabilities and New REST Adapter to Diffusion Cloud

Real-time data streaming and messaging solutions provider Push Technology has enhanced its Diffusion Cloud offering with the addition of a new REST adapter and improved data monitoring capabilities.

The new REST adapter enables development teams to transform existing APIs into streaming data feeds, without the need to re-architect backend systems. The monitoring improvements now makes it easier for Ops teams to understand how their Diffusion Cloud services are being used, identify anomalous behavior, and pro-actively respond to any potential issues before they impact end users.

Raymond James Selects FactSet for Virtual Wealth Workstations

Raymond James US private client group has selected FactSet as its primary technology and market data provider. FactSet has worked alongside Raymond James to virtually deploy over 7,500 advanced wealth workstations to financial advisors throughout the US, providing advisors with FactSet’s content and analytics within a modern, web-based interface to reduce the firm’s dependence on locally installed applications.

Fairlight Asset Management Upgrades with SS&C Eze Eclipse

Fairlight Asset Management, a Sydney, Australia-based global equity manager, has selected SS&C Technologies Eze Eclipse to update is existing workflows and provide a front-to-back investment management platform. Fairlight is using the solution to optimise team activities, ensure compliance across global portfolios, and reconcile its full investment book of record on a daily basis.

Parameta and PeerNova Launch ClearConsensus for Independent Price Valuation

Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group, and PeerNova, a data analytics and management company, have partnered to launch ClearConsensus™, a transparent consensus network for Independent Price Valuation. The service aims to improve business resilience and regulatory response at global banks, by addressing the risk environments for price valuation and control groups.

ClearConsensus combines Parameta’s Evaluated Price (EvP) with PeerNova’s Cuneiform® technology platform to directly introduce observable transactions data via the EvP, while maintaining participant anonymity and data privacy. Real-time analytics help identify market trends to optimise capital allocation and mitigate risk.

Genesis Global Enhances Platform to Streamline Data Integration, Reporting and Full-stack Application Development

Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets, has announced a number of platform enhancements designed to it faster and easier for software developers to build new applications and enhance legacy systems.

The enhancements include a new low-code language for creating Genesis applications, streamlined data integration capabilities, a new reporting module, and Oracle database support.