SmartStream Technologies, the financial transaction lifecycle management (TLM) solutions provider, has revealed that its original agreement with Credit Suisse was recently expanded to include the processing of listed derivatives brokerage fees which began in February of this year.
The derivatives execution and clearing (DEC) business of BNP Paribas has implemented SmartStream Technologies transaction lifecycle management (TLM) Fees and Expense Management (FEMS) solution.
SmartStream Technologies, the financial transaction lifecycle management (TLM) solutions provider, has unveiled its latest reconciliations solution.
Deutsche Börse Group has signed for the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), to use its managed service and tools for Deutsche Börse’s upcoming Regulatory Reporting Hub.
When was the last time you visited a bank branch? While the rise of the internet, banking shifted the customer interaction from the branch to the web, the business was still owned and run end-to-end by the bank and at lower cost. For a few years now, the landscape has altered significantly bringing Kodak to […]
SmartStream has hired Richard Bowler as chief financial officer (CFO).
How a vendor’s acquisition of a big bank’s platform has led to the development of a utility. Credit Suisse talks about its fees and expense management transformation journey.
Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat, Luxembourg (BCEE) has implemented SmartStream’s Corona Universal Data solution to help complete audit trails and meet US regulatory requirements. SmartStream says in order to comply with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), banks “only have a few weeks to reconcile annual data before the legal cut off”. It says its […]
Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has gone live with new cash and liquidity reporting software, SmartStream Technologies’ Corona. The bank has taken “a proactive approach to Basel III” – being the first in the region to do so, said the vendor. The new centralised solution will help to monitor and manage cash positions on an intraday basis, throughout the RBI group.
A Dutch international cash management services specialist, Bank Mendes Gans (BMG), is implementing a new cash and liquidity management system, SmartStream’s Corona. It will go live in Q4 2016, managing BMG’s 500,000 transactions per month.
So here is a major headache for the treasury and capital markets industry: the cost line remains dead flat but the revenue line has dropped off the cliff. Utility is the answer to the market woes, strongly believes Philippe Chambadal, CEO of SmartStream Technologies. He talks to Tanya Andreasyan about SmartStream’s initiative in this space. […]
Thomson Reuters is to supply reference data to SmartStream’s Securities Product Reference Data utility. As part of the agreement, SmartStream will have access to Thomson Reuters PermID, a machine-readable identifier that creates a unique reference for any data item. The SmartStream utility will provide services for instrument reference data normalisation and validation across all asset. […]
SIBOS Interview: Dr Darryl Twigs, Head of Product Management, SmartStream
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are building a reference data utility with SmartStream, which they say will provide data normalisation and validation for all asset classes. The project aims to reduce costs for consumers of data in capital markets by economies of scale.
SmartStream Technologies has acquired the assets of IBM’s Algorithmics Collateral solution and will add it to its existing solutions for the automation of the end-to-end post trade lifecycle, rebranding it as TLM Collateral Management. The system provides collateral lifecycle automation for buy- and sell-side institutions, custodians and asset servicers, large and small.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its drive to monitor and enforce the financial markets by implementing new surveillance tools to examine and inspect reconciliations. The deal comes as the US regulator charges Barclays with failing to build adequate compliance systems and the bank suffers a fine in the UK.
Industry veteran Tom Dalglish has joined SmartStream Technologies as head of transformation services, managing post-trade processing and data management projects for global clients. Initially he will be responsible for managing the back-office transformation programme at an unnamed European bank.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s April 2013 report, Monitoring tools for intraday liquidity management, has provided banks with the “trigger to reset their current infrastructures”, said Detlef Braun, senior consultant at vendor SmartStream.
The complexity of corporate actions has stymied automation efforts for more than a decade. But there could be light at the end of the tunnel …
Danish bank Ringkjøbing Landbobank has adopted a corporate actions tool from SmartStream Technologies, which it says should increase levels of automation and lead to a more efficient service for customers.
Financial technology company SmartStream has launched a reconciliation solution designed to provide low-cost back office services.
Danish bank Jyske Bank has gone live with corporate actions technology from SmartStream.
