The just-launched Xceed platform from NICE Actimize brings together aspects of anti-money laundering (AML), fraud prevention, artificial intelligence (AI), and behavioral analytics in a cloud-native offering. Cloud-native systems have been developed specifically for the cloud computing environment, and are intended to leverage the advantages of the cloud. They are not platforms that were originally designed… Read More >>
SimCorp’s Dimension Moves to Microsoft’s Azure: Q&A
(SimCorp, a provider of multi-asset investment management solutions and services, recently announced that it will be integrating its Dimension platform with the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. This phased integration will yield the hosted, SimCorp Dimension-as-a-Service offering via a public cloud, officials say. The move is the vendor’s response to the needs of its clients… Read More >>
State Street’s Alpha Hits Its Stride: Q&A
(State Street Alpha is a front-to-back office asset servicing platform that the global custodian bank is offering to investment managers, hedge funds, asset owners, and insurers. The front- and middle-office components of Alpha are from the Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS) platform, a result of State Street Corp.’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Charles River… Read More >>
LabCFTC Replaces ‘Fintech Forward’ with Virtual Events
‘Empower Innovation 2020’ to Launch in the Fall LabCFTC, the fintech incubator of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will launch “interactive virtual events throughout the fall,” as a replacement for the 2020 Fintech Forward conference. The in-person conference has been canceled “in light of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic,” officials say. The three-part series has… Read More >>
Broadridge Partnership Yields Corporate Bond Trading Platform
Post-trade systems and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions reports that it’s partnering with Jim Toffey, founder of Tradeweb and now CEO of LiquidX, and has added artificial intelligence technologies to a Broadridge fixed income post-trade processing offering to create a corporate bond trading platform, dubbed LTX. The new platform has already been used to execute… Read More >>
Liquidnet Hires from Goldman Sachs
Ex-Goldman MD Is New Head of Equities Tech Liquidnet, a block liquidity and investment network services provider, reports that it has named Sujay Telang as its new head of equities technology. Telang is a former Goldman Sachs managing director and an electronic trading executive, the vendor notes. Liquidnet officials call their new hire the “latest… Read More >>
TORA Expands Outsourced Trading Team
TORA Adds Two New York-Based Traders A provider of outsourced trading systems, TORA, maker of a cloud-based order and execution management system (O/EMS), reports the addition of two traders to its outsourced trading team: Mark Mazor and Joe Zonenshine. Mazor has more than 15 years of experience as a trader, working as a global execution… Read More >>
NYSE Trading Floor to Reopen May 26
NYSE President Announces Floor Reopening via WSJ The open outcry trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will partially reemerge “slowly and carefully” on May 26, according to Stacey Cunningham, president of the NYSE, who made the announcement via an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, published May 14 The return of… Read More >>
Northern Trust’s Client Portal Gets a Cloud Makeover
Online Report Center Will Become a Cloud Service Northern Trust is relaunching a client-facing portal, the Online Report Center, as a cloud-based service with a redesigned user interface, officials say. The revamped service “is currently in its beta phase with a select group of clients. The full release for all clients will be available later… Read More >>










