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Information Mosaic’s O’Donnell Talks up ING’s Deployment of IMConnecting
Information Mosaic used this year’s Sibos as the platform to launch its new IMConnecting solution, which purports to provide a next gen interface to the post-trade environment for front office users and clients with its handheld device compatibility. Custody bank ING is the first to implement the solution in beta form and will install it…
The Costanza Complex (Or, Is FinTech Facing a Double-Dip?)
Fans of TV’s Seinfeld will surely recall the episode in which Jerry’s friend George Costanza gets caught double-dipping his chip in the dip at a funeral reception. It’s this that immediately springs to mind when commentators suggest we are facing a double-dip recession. But of course, there would be nothing amusing about such an outcome….
SIX Telekurs and Expersoft Systems Announce Strategic Partnership
SIX Telekurs has signed a strategic partnership with Expersoft Systems, a global vendor of portfolio and wealth management platform solutions. The agreement allows the two companies to combine their cutting edge solutions, thereby offering small and medium sized independent providers of wealth management services for high net worth individuals (HNWI) and institutional clients a unique…
DTCC and SWIFT Launch ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Messaging Pilot Program
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot program. The pilot program being run by DTCC will…
JWG Risk Research Recommends Firms Focus on Getting Workable Risk Datasets in Place
After two years of scrambling to assemble new regulatory reports, firms now have a brief window of opportunity to rethink the risk information capabilities they need to satisfy both customers and regulators. However, it does not appear that many are taking advantage of the chance to redesign their current risk architectures. ‘Getting risk information right’,…
SRL Global Chooses SIX Telekurs for Pricing and Index Data
SRL Global, originally established as a trading and technology joint venture with Man Group Plc in 2007, now an independent specialist technology boutique offering its services to financial buy side institutions, recently signed an agreement with SIX Telekurs UK Ltd to take end of day pricing and index benchmark data for its NEXUS Enterprise Solution….
Cadis Hosts SIX Telekurs Data
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced the availability of a Cadis hosted version of SIX Telekurs’ main product, the Valordata Feed (VDF). The Cadis SaaS version will enable SIX Telekurs clients to consume all VDF data in any file format, at any latency within hours. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “Our hosted version…
B-next Launches MACOC:AML and MACOC:Fraud
B-next, a provider of market conformity software solutions to financial institutions, announces the release of MACOC:AML and MACOC:Fraud. B-next has partnered with Cellent Finance Solutions, a leading vendor in enterprise-wide analysis of risks and hazards, integrating its AML and fraud solution into its MACOC platform and can also connect to b-next’s MACOC:Cockpit. This MACOC:Suite offers…
Smart Collateral Management: Removing the Manual Processes
By David Campbell, Securities Product Manager, Investment Services and Nolan Gesher, Senior Product Manager, Risk and Compliance, Fiserv In 2009, 70% of all OTC derivatives trades were subject to collateral agreements, proving significant challenges. The lack of standardised processes, which can be a burden, also provides opportunities. By using systems and processes to address the…
A Tower of Babel for Risk Data
There’s nothing better than a good analogy and this week’s JWG organised panel discussion on the topic of funds transfer pricing (FTP) saw one of the banking industry panellists (Chatham House rules prevent me from naming names) come up with a particularly good (if well used) description of the risk data challenge as one in…