The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) has a compelling marketing pitch: a $270 million electronic national exchange headquartered in Dallas to capture the “Boom Belt” corporate migration. However, the day-to-day reality for back-office operations teams remains firmly on the East Coast. According to technical filings, daily execution remains physically anchored in Equinix NY6 in Secaucus, New… Read More >>
M&G to Use SS&C GIDS to Support Platform Ops
M&G plc, a global investment manager based in London, is expanding its agreement with SS&C Technologies by letting SS&C Global Investor & Distribution Solutions (GIDS) operate the M&G Platform, a distribution channel for M&G’s PruFund, in a bid to improve service delivery and operational resilience, officials say. M&G will retain full ownership of the platform… Read More >>
Silverview Credit Partners Deploys IntegriDATA System
Silverview Credit Partners, a private debt and credit firm, intends to modernize its expense allocation infrastructure by implementing a system from IntegriDATA, an Indus Valley Partners (IVP) company, according to officials. IVP is a provider of software and technology solutions for alternative asset managers. Silverview says it wants to deploy the Expense Allocation System (EAS)… Read More >>
Trading Technologies Readies Fixed Income EMS
Services provider Trading Technologies International (TT) will use the foundational evaluated prices and reference data from ICE Data Services as part of a new buy-side fixed-income execution management system (EMS) that TT will debut later this year, officials say. TT’s intention with the forthcoming EMS is to offer execution services for fixed income, futures, and… Read More >>
FTF Presents the Winners of the FTF Awards
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 >>
24/7 Derivatives Trading Is On the CFTC’s Radar
Derivatives clearing organizations, designated contract markets, swap execution facilities (SEFs), and futures commission merchants (FCMs) have been put on notice by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that its Divisions of Clearing and Risk, Market Oversight, and Market Participants have some concerns about 24/7 trading, clearing, and settlement. Those concerns form the basis for a… Read More >>
TP ICAP’s ‘RealQ’ Targets Bond Market Liquidity
Interdealer broker TP ICAP Group, a provider of financial markets infrastructure and data, has launched RealQ, a credit trading and data platform intended to help market participants improve how liquidity is “discovered, accessed and transacted” in bond markets, officials say. “Following the acquisition of Neptune Networks by TP ICAP in partnership with nine global banks… Read More >>
Northern Trust Seeks Share Class Relief for ETFs
Custodian Northern Trust has made public its formal application for exemptive relief to offer exchange-traded fund (ETF) share classes “alongside existing mutual fund share classes for certain adviser series within its two sponsored series trusts: Advisers Investment Trust and Datum One Series Trust,” officials say Filing for exemptive relief will help Northern Trust provide asset… Read More >>
Tokenized ETFs Expose Post-Trade Plumbing Hurdles
For middle- and back-office operations teams, the industry’s accelerating push into tokenized assets threatens to fundamentally disrupt legacy post-trade infrastructure. When Franklin Templeton (FT) and Kraken (via its parent company, Payward) announced a strategic collaboration to bring co-designed, tokenized ETFs on-chain, the front office heralded it as a major milestone. The deal expands on Franklin… Read More >>
Pictet Embraces Front-to-Back Office Data Layer
Pictet Asset Management is adding to SimCorp’s remit for the investment management firm as the provider has been tapped to help the firm move beyond fragmented systems and disconnected datasets spread across front-, middle-, and back-office functions, officials say. The unified data layer to come will replace fragmented data and batch processes with a real-time… Read More >>
