Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

SS&C updates HiPortfolio

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSNC), a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced the latest release of HiPortfolio, its leading investment accounting and asset servicing software.

12 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

TriOptima launches triResolve Margin

TriOptima, an award-winning post trade infrastructure provider, announces the launch of its latest post trade service, triResolve Margin, a web-based, end-to-end margin processing solution delivered in collaboration with AcadiaSoft.

12 January 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Markit to buy Loan/SERV position reconciliation tech assets

Financial data outfit Markit has agreed to buy the position reconciliation technology assets of Loan/Serv from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Financial terms have not been disclosed.

11 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Optiver signs multi-year deal for Torstone's sub-ledger system

Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announces that Optiver, the global electronic market maker, has signed a multi-year deal to use Torstone’s sub-ledger system, Inferno SL, to provide a consolidated balance sheet and perform reconciliations with clearing banks.

11 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

BCV choses Message Automation for trade reporting

Message Automation (MA), the leader in Post Trade Control solutions for derivatives, is pleased to announce that Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), one of the largest regional banks in Switzerland, is the latest firm to select MA to support their trade reporting requirements.

11 January 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

We need customer advocacy

Jon Rutter, Director, EMEA Product Innovation & Partnerships, First Data discusses the role of a ‘customer-centric’ focus in innovation and how empathy is important in aiding customer success.

11 January 2016

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Accenture acquires Formicary

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Formicary, a provider of consulting and systems integration services for trading platforms in the UK and North America.

07 January 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Competitive boundaries are blurring in banking

Ben Robinson, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Temenos, speaks about the key takeaways of the ‘Shifting Sands’ banking survey report, how fewer banks see fintech as a threat, and the current and future use of both cloud banking systems and data.

05 January 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Fast followers build on early adopters’ know-how

James Aramanda, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Clearing House, and David Yates, Chief Executive Officer, VocaLink, speak about the new immediate payments climate in the US, the space in the US payments landscape which The Clearing House and VocaLink are working together to fill, and the key factors needed for interoperability between Europe, Asia, and the US.

05 January 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Crazy fintech predictions for 2016

Pascal Bouvier, newly installed as a venture partner with Santander Innoventures fintech venture fund, dusts off his crystal ball and peers into the not-too-distant fintech future.

04 January 2016

News/Post-trade & ops

Nasdaq sees in the New Year with first blockchain transaction

Nasdaq is claiming a major step forward in the use of blockchain technology in capital markets after documenting a successful private securities transaction via its distributed ledger-based Linq platform.

04 January 2016

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Enabling new frontiers for banking efficiency

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, discusses the role of digital in leveraging efficiency and agility in banking and which technology areas banks should focus on to achieve efficiency gains.

27 December 2015

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

Change in banking is a need to survive

Alvaro Ruiz, Executive Partner, Europe GBS Banking & Financial Markets Leader, IBM Global Business Services, outlines how the digital revolution has impacted traditional retail banking, the effect it has on how banks define their products and services, and what technology enablers have caused this change.

23 December 2015

News/Post-trade & ops

2015: That was the year that was

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2015, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 4 January 2016.

23 December 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Industry Steering Committee publishes playbook for implementing T+2 in US

The T+2 Industry Steering Committee (T+2 ISC) today published an Implementation Playbook developed with Deloitte Advisory.

21 December 2015

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

The point of no return for legacy systems

Keith Saxton, Chair, techUK Financial Services Council, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, talks about how the problem of banks’ legacy systems is not going away and must now be dealt with, and looks at some alternatives to rip and replace strategies, including exploiting the ‘as a service’ model and open APIs, and exploring new opportunities for utilities for non-differentiating activities such as reference data, account opening and aspects of regulatory compliance.

21 December 2015

News/Post-trade & ops

London Stock Exchange advances on ETF market with XTF acquisition

The London Stock Exchange has acquired XTF, a US-based provider of analytics and ratings data for the fast-growing exchange traded funds (ETF) asset class.

21 December 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

NSD begins electronic matching of OTC derivatives trades

National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has started applying the electronic matching procedure for all counterparties' potential counter clearing and settlement instructions for OTC securities trades (starting as of 21 December 2015).

21 December 2015

News/Post-trade & ops

ECB goes back to drawing board to draft new T2S timetable

The European Central Bank has once again revised the timetable for central securities depositories migrating to the harmonised clearing and settlement platform T2S in the wake of hold ups at the bloc's two largest groups Euroclear and Clearstream.

18 December 2015

Finextra TV/Post-trade & ops

The holy grail of great service AND great value

Anthony Thomson, Founder, Atom Bank and Metro Bank, and NED of Agiliti, at “Banking on the Future”, a seminar produced by Fiserv, Innovate Finance and techUK, talks about how digital can enable the cost-effective provision of outstanding products and services to customers, the fact that new entrants such as challenger and shadow banks are changing the market in a way that incumbents must follow, and how the threat to established banks is not challengers per se but the rapid business model evolution being driven by digitalisation.

18 December 2015