Latest Post-trade & ops News: Finextra Research

SmartStream names Haytham Kaddoura as CEO, Philippe Chambadal as President

SmartStream Technologies, the Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) specialist, today announced that Haytham Kaddoura has been named CEO of SmartStream and will be working with Philippe Chambadal who will be assuming the role of President.

17 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Colt adds new Asian market data feeds

Colt announced today the expansion of its Asia coverage by adding three new data feeds to its low-latency MarketPrizm Market Data service

17 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Elysium Technology Group and TradAir forge front-to-back FX alliance

Leaders in the FX industry, Elysium Technology Group (Elysium) and TradAir, are proud to announce a new alliance that brings a fully integrated, next generation front to back FX solution to the industry.

16 May 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Icap to rebrand as financial technology company

Icap is to put its fintech incubator Euclid Opportunites to the forefront as it sells off its brand to Tullett Prebon and refocuses its business under the new name NEX Group.

16 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Icap rebrands as NEX Group

ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, is delighted to announce that following the completion of the proposed transaction by ICAP to sell its global hybrid voice broking and information business to Tullett Prebon, ICAP plc will be re-named NEX Group plc.

16 May 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Euronext eyes M&A opportunities as it bids to compete with London and Frankfurt

European exchange group Euronext has set aside EUR150 million to fund its growth over the next three years through internal development and via a series of bolt-on acquisitions.

13 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Linedata goes after Chinese hedge funds with Sycamore partnership

Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, has partnered with Sycamore Investment Services in Shanghai, to provide a complete front to middle-office service to the hedge fund community in China.

12 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Kompany to move company records to a blockchain

At today’s 2016 joint conference of the European Commerce Registers’ Forum (ECRF) and Corporate Registers’ Forum (CRF) in Cardiff, UK, kompany.com announces its development to provide electronic ledgers of original and authoritative company information.

12 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Questrade adopts Broadridge tech for FX and liquidity management

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (BR) today announced that Questrade, an online retail brokerage based in Canada, has adopted Broadridge's end-to-end foreign exchange and liquidity solution, Broadridge FX and Liquidity (FXL).

12 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

SmartStream launches innovation lab

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) specialist, today announced the launch of its SmartLabs innovation centre, and the release of its first solution TLM SmartRecs OnDemand.

12 May 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

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