Trade processing
Planned sale prompts hard look at post-trade firms
Plans to sell MarkitServ fuel warnings about middleware vendors’ future
Trade data initiatives aim to unify regulatory reporting
Standardised data would improve systemic risk monitoring and save firms billions, say data engineers
The battle for the back office
Post-trade incumbents at risk as Isda and others search for standards
Citi and JP Morgan back MarkitSERV rival
Big dealers revealed as first bank clients of swaps start-up truePTS days after legal settlement
Buy side backs trueEX in tussle with Markit
Asset managers worry legal dispute could force trueEX out of business
trueEX sues Markit over threat to withdraw service
Sef claims it would be forced out of business if it loses access to MarkitSERV
Technology: banks start thinking inside the box
Monolithic capital markets systems are giving way to microservices, containers and APIs
Energy firms face Emir confirmation challenge
Fax counterparties could be locked out of OTC market
Technology special report
Derivatives trade reporting, CpML and the increasing use of GRC
Technology House of the Year: TriOptima
Emir and Dodd-Frank are seeing energy companies flock to TriOptima
Out of office: banks debate merits of shared processing
Sliding profits are prompting banks to take a new look at an old idea – an industry run back-office utility
Special report: Clearing
In the clear?
Northern Trust to shadow BNY Mellon at Bridgewater
Northern Trust appointed to replicate middle- and back-office functions of existing administrator BNY Mellon at $140bn hedge fund
Wells Fargo: late entrant to the OTC clearing race
A credible competitor
The Fed commitment letter process is alive and well, say Isda panellists
FSA's Bailey says the commitment letter process is better for firms than having the regulator "kicking over their books"
Shift to clearing presents CCP system challenges
A clear challenge
MarkitServ updates novation process after two-month delay
Middleware provider MarkitServ now in line with industry standard - two months after initially planned and more than three months after rival Ice Link.
Middleware key to clearing success
The ware-rich project
The future of the Fed letter commitments
Changing commitments
Commerzbank latest firm caught out by FSA for transaction reporting failures
Commerzbank has been fined £595,000 for failing to provide accurate and timely transaction reports
FSA fines Barclays £2.45m for transaction reporting failings
Barclays is fined by the UK regulator over reporting failures, and systems and controls weaknesses