Fidelity’s National Financial unit announced July 13 enhancements to its Streetscape brokerage platform, including the addition of Thomson One wealth management applications, that will be made available to all 300 of its correspondent broker/dealers by September. Thomson Reuters’ Thomson One suite is currently in use by some 100,000 brokers, providing market data, news, research, and book and wealth management tools.
Mark Healy, executive VP for National Financial, said the Streetscape & Thomson One offering marks the “first time a correspondent clearing firm has rolled out such an integrated suite,” particularly one, he says, “with this level of customization.” Fidelity sees three main markets for the offering: broker/dealer reps, breakaway brokers, and self-clearing firms.
Based on a Microsoft .NET technical framework and in pilot with certain National Financial users since the fourth quarter of 2008, the suite offers news, market data, charts, and Lipper ratings for investments (Lipper is now owned by Thomson Reuters), but also offers strong book management and investment planning features, says Healy. Each advisor can create up to 10 dashboards to help with book management, using buckets of data drawn from a library that the broker/dealer sets up or using parameters set by the advisor himself.