Operations & Technology Archive

DST Global Solutions, a buy-side software vendor, has appointed Fran Thompson to manage client relationships and sales efforts in Asia. read more>

Europe’s asset management firms are preparing for the growth of trading in centrally cleared OTC derivatives by improving their collateral management and counterparty risk controls. read more>

As the deadline for compliance with Dodd-Frank’s OTC swaps transparency requirements looms, market participants are feeling the pressure of real-time reporting requirements contained in the new legislation. read more>

Financial technology and services provider Orc Group has renewed its agreement with Arqaam Capital, the Dubai-based emerging markets investment bank. read more>

As Anglo-French clearing house LCH.Clearnet attracts more customers to its derivatives clearing service, the risk looms it will lose a major customer with NYSE Euronext looking to launch its own full-service London-based derivatives clearer. read more>

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology arm of NYSE Euronext, has launched a new post-trade monitoring tool, Trade Exception Radar, which is designed to help firms collect and analyse trading patterns and detect and identify potential trading issues in real time. read more>

MarketPrizm, a provider of market data and trading infrastructure, has started installing the Asian segments of its global ultra-low latency data distribution infrastructure. read more>

New connectivity is helping Middle Eastern buy-siders expand their exposure across the region and letting local brokers attract global investors. read more>

Newly-established Polish clearing house and central counterparty, KDPW_CCP, has adopted a new OTC derivatives clearing solution to meet global standards. read more>

LCH.Clearnet, the Anglo-French multi-asset clearing house, expects to make announcement on its ongoing merger negotiations with the London Stock Exchange “shortly”, but CEO Ian Axe declined to give a date in conference call following the release of the member-owned clearer’s 2011 results. read more>