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SS&C Adds S3 Transaction Cost Analysis and SEC Rule 606 Regulatory Reporting Services
SS&C Technologies is adding S3’s total cost analysis (TCA) and SEC Rule 606 reporting products to its solutions line up. The addition of S3 services – S3 is a provider of trade surveillance, analytics and regulatory reporting technology – will help SS&C clients ensure best execution of trading transactions through trade surveillance, analytics and full…
Recorded Webinar: Moving the trading technology stack to the cloud
Migration of financial apps and data to the cloud is well underway as financial institutions take the opportunity to cut the cost of running systems on premise, scale as and when required, and spin up test environments quickly and inexpensively. Moving the trading technology stack to the cloud is a different and more difficult proposition….
London Stock Exchange Rejects $37 Billion Acquisition Bid from Hong Kong Exchange
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has rejected the $37 billion conditional acquisition proposal made by Hong King Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to acquire the entire share capital of the London exchange last week saying it has ‘fundamental concerns about the key aspects of the conditional proposal’. These include the strategy, deliverability, form of consideration…
Responses Split on ESMA Consultation Paper on a Consolidated Tape and Market Data
Responses to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) July consultation paper on the establishment of a consolidated tape (CT) for equity instruments are starting to surface, and the views they express diverge greatly. While some industry participants are very much in favour of a CT, others are strongly against the idea. The road to…
Hong Kong Exchange $37 Billion Bid for London Stock Exchange Scuppers Latter’s Merger Plan with Refinitiv
The Hong Kong Exchange’s $37 bid for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) came out of the blue this morning, but has since rattled cages and raised questions about the LSE’s proposed $27 billion merger with Refinitiv, whether a deal of this sort would be acceptable to regulators, and how LSE shareholders will react to the…
Credit Suisse Securities Migrates from Outsourced Post-trade Solution to Torstone’s Inferno
Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) has selected Torstone Technology’s Inferno post-trade processing platform to replace its existing third-party outsourced solution and service. The project to migrate to Inferno is underway and focused on the firm’s institutional equities business. A key driver for the change was to move away from an outsourced operation and increase efficiency across…
genesis Adds Post-Trade Products, Plans Platform-as-a-Service Solution
genesis has brought its microservices framework, business component library and development acceleration tools to post-trade operations with a view to helping both sell-side and buy-side firms automate workflows and improve operational efficiency. The post-trade portfolio adds to other trading products built by genesis with anchor clients and then made available to the market, and will…
DTCC and Accenture Deliver Governance Operating Model for Distributed Ledger Technology
DTCC and Accenture have introduced a distributed ledger technology (DLT) governance operating model to manage the risks and consequences of the technology, ensure the safety and soundness of the network for the benefit of all participants, and better enable DLT to reach its full potential. The model is also a critical component of DTCC’s Trade…
Fund Managers Fall Short on Reviewing Broker Performance
Fund managers are falling short on calculating the implicit costs of trading, and on a broader scale are unaware as to exactly how much money is being spent with brokers due to a failure to fully review all their relationships qualitatively and quantitatively. According to research from OpenGamma, a provider of derivatives analytics, despite the…
IPC and Cloud9 Partner to Deliver Voice Trading and Collaboration Solution
IPC and Cloud9 Technologies are working together to offer an advanced, open voice trading and collaboration solution. The integrated cloud-based service combines Cloud9’s C9 Trader voice communications and analytics platform with IPC’s Unigy trading communications platform and Connexus Cloud financial ecosystem. The aim of the partnership is to provide the global trading community with a…