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Future-proofing Post-Trade: How to Get the Middle and Back Office Talking

Posted by Torstone Technology on Sep 15, 2023 1:21:57 PM

Regulatory compliance and new demands on post-trade operations have long pointed to the benefits of streamlining processes in the middle and back office. This year, new market initiatives and developments (T+1 and growth in digital assets) are adding to…

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Topics: post-trade, Middle-Office Solutions, Middle Office Automation, back-office solutions, back-office automation

Bringing the Middle Office into the Real-Time, Digital Age

Posted by Torstone Technology on Sep 8, 2023 2:42:28 PM

The rise of digital assets and shrinking of post-trade settlement times are both driving financial institutions to automate their middle-office operations for much needed flexibility and efficiency. In a DerivSource commentary, Brian Collings, CEO of 

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Topics: Middle-Office Solutions, Middle Office Automation

Servicing the new financial giants: tackling post-trade in market making

Posted by Torstone Technology on Sep 8, 2023 2:26:50 PM

Electronic market makers are growing in influence and reshaping markets, but their post-trade challenges are being overlooked, writes Brian Collings, CEO of Torstone Technology, who highlights that their colossal and wide-ranging operations need partners…

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Topics: post-trade, real-time post trade

A business case for automating the middle office ahead of the move to T+1

Posted by Torstone Technology on Sep 7, 2023 5:44:17 PM

Mack Gill, chief operating officer of Torstone Technology, stresses the importance of automation ahead of the roll-out of T+1 in the US and Canada.

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Topics: post-trade, Middle-Office Solutions, Middle Office Automation, T+1, Move to T+1

Questions remain over the international impact of the US & Canada move to T+1

Posted by Torstone Technology on Sep 7, 2023 5:34:24 PM

The pain points of adapting to a T+1 settlement cycle are now clearer, and market participants will need to collaborate to adapt to the changes, saysDavid Pearsonat Torstone Technology.

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Topics: Middle-Office Solutions, Middle Office Automation, T+1, Move to T+1

Painfully Slow Progress on BCBS239

Posted by Torstone Technology on Jul 12, 2018 10:00:00 AM

Two years after the January 2016 deadline for banks to introduce improved risk data aggregation and reporting (BCBS239), the latest report from the BCBS on implementation progress makes grim reading: only three out of thirty global systemically…

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Topics: BCBS239, Risk Aggregation

Cloud Computing and Capital Markets in 2018 and Beyond

Posted by Torstone Technology on Jul 5, 2018 10:00:00 AM

Percentile’s CTO, Chris Miller, discusses why he believes Cloud is no longer a “dirty word” in Capital Markets and Banking.

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Topics: Cloud, Capital Markets, Risk

Capital Markets RegTech Buzz

Posted by Torstone Technology on May 18, 2018 2:36:00 PM

The RegTech buzz continues and has propelled us further and higher in the league tables!

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Topics: Innovation, RegTech, FinTech

FRTB: P&L Attribution Challenges

Posted by Torstone Technology on Dec 27, 2017 10:00:00 AM

A year after Basel’s new Minimum Capital Requirements for Market Risk (commonly referred to as FRTB) were published, its P&L attribution tests remain a major issue for banks needing to implement it – both in the lack of clarity around it and the…

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Topics: FRTB

Banks can do so much more with FRTB compliance. Here’s how.

Posted by Torstone Technology on Nov 18, 2017 10:00:00 AM

Trading banks must as a minimum implement the “standardised approach” to comply with the new Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) set of regulatory proposals. In this article we look at how advanced analytics tools can help banks derive…

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Topics: FRTB, Standardised Approach