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Margetts selects Bravura for SaaS transfer agency service

Bravura Solutions Pty Limited (Bravura) today announced that boutique fund manager, Margetts Fund Management Limited (Margetts), has selected its SaaS transfer agency package.

08 June 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

UK broker to launch trading on Facebook app

Retail investors may soon be able to buy and sell shares via Facebook's messenger platform after UK fund supermarket AJ Bell announced plans to launch a new trading service in the next three months.

08 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

CME Group selects CloudMargin for collateral management service

CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and CloudMargin, the award-winning collateral management provider, today announced they have collaborated to offer CME Clearing and CME Clearing Europe customers the first cloud-based software service that integrates and automates the management of collateral in one place.

08 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Torstone starts Inferno in Myanmar

Torstone Technology, the leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announces that a Myanmar-based broker has begun using Inferno, Torstone’s post-trade securities and derivatives processing system.

08 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

LSE and Boat launch MiFID II trade reporting service

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Boat Services Ltd today announce the launch of TRADEcho, the combination of the two companies’ existing and complimentary trade reporting services.

07 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

LCH signs up to Swift's ISO 20022 harmonisation charter

Swift announces today that LCH has signed up to the ‘ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter’, an industry-driven framework that facilitates the rollout of the ISO 20022 messaging standard and provides the technology platform to promote harmonisation.

07 June 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Live: EBAday 2016, day one

Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Milan this week for EBAday 2016, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.

07 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Euromoney Tradedata upgrades Xymbology service for MiFID II

Euromoney Tradedata today announced an upgrade to its Xymbology service for MiFID II symbology in advance of the critical, mandatory transaction reporting deadline of 3rd January 2018.

06 June 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Icap bags $65 million Chinese infrastructure deal

Icap has won a $65 million deal to supply technology for fixed income and foreign exchange electronic execution services in mainland China.

03 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Numerix Oneview expands risk application capabilities

Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management today announces the availability of its solution to help banks comply with the Basel Committee’s regulatory requirement for Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) Capital ahead of the January 2017 implementation deadline.

02 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

SS&C bridges operational gaps for Citi

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSNC), a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced it has successfully transitioned Citi’s hedge fund customers to the latest version of the Geneva platform – SS&C’s real-time portfolio management, reporting and investor accounting solution.

02 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Wolters Kluwer launches transaction reporting for sterling money markets

Wolters Kluwer has today launched ISO 20022 compliant Transaction Reporting for Daily Sterling Money Market Statistical Reporting (MMSR) for both new and existing customers.

02 June 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Intraday drives innovation

Mario Mendia, Head of Capital Markets & Treasury at TAS Group, speaks about the impact of T2S and BCBS 248 on intraday liquidity management and explores how firms’ increasingly sophisticated approaches are creating opportunities to do more with business intelligence, instant payments and blockchain.

02 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Financial service firms spend $1.2 billion per year on consolidated market data feeds

The financial services industry spends more than $1.2 billion annually on consolidated market data feed products, according to a new report from Greenwich Associates.

02 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

OTAS partners with Wall Street Horizon

OTAS Technologies (OTAS), a specialist provider of market analytics and trader intelligence, today announced it has partnered with Wall Street Horizon to provide its institutional investment and trading clients with highly accurate and timely corporate event dates and information.

02 June 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Esma assesses regulatory framework for distributed ledger adoption

The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) is seeking feedback from market participants on the possible use of distributed ledger technology in securities markets, honing in on the "potential benefits and the risks that such broader use may pose".

02 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Former CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton joins NexChange advisory board

Bart Chilton, former Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has joined NexChange advisory board as Senior Advisor.

02 June 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

As merger approaches, LSE and Deutsche Boerse eye job cuts and IT savings

The London Stock Exchange says that its planned merger with Deutsche Boerse could see up to 1250 jobs axed as the combined firm bids to make hundreds of millions of euros in cost savings, partly through technology.

01 June 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Banks need to enhance dialogue with corporates

Cedric Derras, Cash Management International Sales Italy, UniCredit, discusses the discrepancy between corporate and consumer digital services, and how banks can respond quickly to evolving transaction banking market requirements.

01 June 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Mesirow Financial goes live on Clarient Entity Hub

Clarient Global LLC (“Clarient”) today announced that Mesirow Financial, Inc. (“Mesirow”), an independent diversified financial services firm, has gone live on Clarient Entity Hub, a utility-based service designed to simplify client data and document management.

01 June 2016