Financial Technologies Forum (FTF), now in its 20th year of business, is making public the winners of the 2026 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards program, reflecting a mix of established players and newcomers gaining new ground in 2025. The FTF Awards program — which got its start 15 years ago — celebrates the top providers,… Read More >>
Broadridge Builds Bridges to Digital Asset Operations
Broadridge Financial Solutions reports that it is responding in multiple ways to clients who say that digital assets and tokenization are becoming central to their investors’ portfolios. As a provider of multiple services, systems, and applications for securities operations, Broadridge reports that it has extended its governance platform, reached out to Canadian wealth managers, and… Read More >>
FTF Awards Nominees Reflect Industry Dynamics
The nominations are out for the 2026 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards program — now in its 15th year — and the nominees represent industry surges toward cutting-edge instruments and technologies, such as digital assets and generative A.I. The nominations also reflect the dynamics of the securities industry, such as the major shift toward private… Read More >>
Ops Teams Must Focus on A.I. Governance: SS&C
Financial services firms are moving fast to embrace enterprise-wide artificial intelligence (A.I.) workflows, but officials at SS&C Technologies say they have identified a “growing gap in how these systems are operationalized, managed, and governed in production” and are putting forth a framework to rectify the situation. SS&C’s Enterprise A.I. Governance Framework is “calling on the… Read More >>
Canaccord Genuity Pays $80M Penalty to FinCEN
Earlier this month, broker-dealer Canaccord Genuity paid a record $80 million civil penalty to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) unit for alleged “willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)” that involved money laundering and terrorism financing. The penalty — the largest ever imposed against a broker-dealer for violating… Read More >>
Six Banks Commit $100M to OSTTRA’s Expansion
Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, HSBC, UBS Investment Bank, and Wells Fargo have agreed to make a combined $100 million strategic equity investment in post-trade provider OSTTRA to support its expansion into new markets and asset classes. The move follows investment firm KKR’s $3.1 billion acquisition of OSTTRA late last year. The company’s network connects… Read More >>
Derivative Path & CloudMargin Align OTC & Collateral Management Systems
Two providers whose offerings are delivered via the cloud — Derivative Path and CloudMargin — have been collaborating to yield new links between Derivative Path’s DerivativeEdge platform for capital markets and risk management support, and CloudMargin’s cloud-native collateral management platform, officials say. The new automated alignment is intended to replace manual processes and workflow friction,… Read More >>
It’s Time to Submit Nominations for the FTF Awards
We are knee deep in awards season for multiple disciplines and industries. The securities operations industry is no different as we launched the nominations process for the 2026 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards on January 12. The current FTF Awards program closely follows the dynamics of cutting-edge technology, operations management concerns, greater financial crime threats,… Read More >>
U.K. Treasury Pushes to Advance T+1
HM Treasury, the United Kingdom’s economic and finance ministry, has released a draft Statutory Instrument and accompanying policy note outlining the date and scope of recommendations set forth by industry working groups on the country’s transition to T+1 settlement. Published at the end of October, the draft lays the groundwork for the legal changes required… Read More >>
T. Rowe Price Deploys Customized Platform for Corporate Bonds
T. Rowe Price has a customized platform, a version of the Primary Bond Issuance (PBI) data management and workflow solution from Genesis Global for corporate bond deals that the asset manager’s fixed-income team can use to streamline the bond deal lifecycle, officials say. Genesis customized the PBI platform for T. Rowe Price to help the… Read More >>
