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SAP Financial Services Forum - Live Blog

Now in its fifth year, the SAP Financial Services Forum brings together over 450 financial services professionals to explore digital transformation across the financial services sector and the ways that firms can harness innovation, more effectively interact with their customers and build brand loyalty. This live blog will keep you abreast of what unfolds throughout the first day at the event.

23 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

T2S goes live

T2S, a platform that will enable integrated securities settlement across Europe, has gone live as planned today, the European Central Bank announced.

22 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Twenty First Capital selects Caceis for asset servicing

Asset Management company, Twenty First Capital has selected CACEIS as the Asset Servicing partner for its first Luxembourg UCITS fund, TFC TACTICAL Long/Short Fund, launched on the 22nd of May.

19 June 2015

News/Post-trade & ops

US agrees T+2 timetable

The US securities industry is finally to move to a two-day settlement cycle (T+2), but not until the end of Q3 2017, some three years after similar shifts in other global markets

18 June 2015

News/Post-trade & ops

SAP Financial Services Forum Focus: Seth McGuire, Twitter

A former senior director of business development at Gnip, prior to its 2014 acquisition by Twitter, and a research and sales executive at the Corporate Executive Board, a DC-based consulting firm – now McGuire is a senior business development manager at Twitter, focused on data partnerships. He has been a guest speaker on social media and the markets on programs including CNBC's "Squawk Box," Bloomberg's "Money Moves" and Fox Business' "After the Bell."

18 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Orc wins Sberbank contract

Orc, the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced a contract with Sberbank CIB – the corporate and investment banking business of Sberbank, which is Russia’s largest bank and one of the leading global financial institutions.

18 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

DTCC proposes global data harmonisation

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, issued its recommendations on global data harmonization to the CPMI IOSCO Harmonization working group today, detailing a proposed path towards a global data harmonization, with credit derivatives identified as the first step.

17 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Northern Trust selects Cloudera for enterprise data management

Northern Trust (NTRS), a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, and asset management, has launched an award-winning technology infrastructure initiative based on technology from Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop(TM).

17 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Cerno Capital Partners joins Suggestus Research Platform

Investment management boutique Cerno Capital Partners LLP (“Cerno”), which manages the assets of individuals, families, charities and wealth managers, confirmed today that it has signed up for the ARC’s “Suggestus” research platform.

17 June 2015

News/Post-trade & ops

Italy secures T2S deadline extension

Italy will no longer be one of the first set of countries to go live with Target2-Securities (T2S) later this month, securing a two month extension in the wake of "strong discomfort" among its banks.

16 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

TMX launches AgriClear

TMX Group today announced a new initiative that will further expand the reach of its world-leading operational capabilities.

16 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

S&P and Singapore Exchange launch research platform

S&P Capital IQ, a business unit of McGraw Hill Financial (MHFI), today announced the launch of IRFacts, an integrated data, analytics and market research platform, created in partnership with the Singapore Exchange (SGX), for IR professionals.

16 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

AP Pension signs with Calastone for cross-border expansion

Recognising the exponential increase in the automation of transactions within the global funds industry, Denmark-based AP Pension has selected Calastone, the global funds transaction network,to provide its order routing services to underpin its administration platform for cross-border trading.

16 June 2015

News/Post-trade & ops

Industry bodies call for regulatory clarity in trade reporting standards

A group of 11 industry associations have called on regulatory bodies to address the problems of poor data quality in derivatives reporting.

15 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

US Bank pivots to middle office outsourcing for CLOs

U.S. Bank Global Corporate Trust Services has enhanced its online platform, Pivot, expanding access to collateralized loan obligation (CLO) managers that outsource middle office services.

15 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Portigon deploys Broadridge platform for post-trade processing

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) today announced that Portigon Financial Services, an international portfolio service provider with branches in Dusseldorf, London and New York, is now live on Broadridge's global post-trade processing solution for both its German domestic and international businesses across exchange-traded derivatives and securities.

15 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Murex overhauls collateral management module

MUREX SAS (“Murex”), the leading provider of cross-asset trading, risk, and back-office solutions, announces the release of its fully overhauled MX.3 for Collateral Management solution, designed to better support sell-side and buy-side financial institutions in creating an effective pre and post-trade collateral optimization framework.

12 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Swift KYC Registry approved by Bank of Russia

The Russian SWIFT National User and Member Group, ROSSWIFT, has been given approval by the Central Bank of the Russia Federation (CBRF) to roll out SWIFT’s Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry to Russian financial institutions.

11 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Trayport connects to Regis-TR for Remit reporting

Trayport extends its Emir connectivity to Remit by connecting to Regis-TR’s Registered Reporting Mechanism (RRM).

11 June 2015

Company update/Post-trade & ops

Robeco rolls out Vermilion funds data platform

Vermilion Software, a leading global supplier of client reporting and communications software, announces the latest stage in the global rollout of its platform to Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (Robeco) - the adoption of the ‘FundsXML’ open data distribution system that will enable the asset manager to continue to expand its global presence and shorten its time to market with accurate fund information.

11 June 2015