Clearing and Custodial Firms
Read up on clearing and custodial firms serving RIAs and others in the wealth management arena.
More than Just Clearing
By Jane Wollman RusoffFinancial advisors are quick to call theirs a people-to-people business; and since they're out on the front lines, that's completely correct. But now some traditionally backstage...
April 01, 2007
Solution ProvidersToday's changing financial services industry is faced with a stunning number of new challenges. But clearing firms -- duking it out in their ever-shrinking arena...
January 01, 2007
Symbiotic RelationshipsWhen broker/dealers select a clearing firm to partner with, it pays to be choosy. This is one of the most critical relationships that any broker/dealer...
March 06, 2006
Platforms, Margins Changing for Energy DerivativesBRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. (HedgeWorld.com)--Optionable Inc., a provider of energy derivatives brokerage services, announced that its OPEX trading platform has been certified to connect with the New York Mercantile Exchange's electronic trading and clearing platform, ClearPort. Optionable said that OPEX is in the final stages of development and testing. It has...
January 01, 2006
A Notch HigherFor a few years now, consolidation and regulatory scrutiny have been the buzzwords in the clearing business, but executives at clearing firms say another trend...
November 14, 2005
Refco's Lessons Learned?CHICAGO (HedgeWorld.com)--Picking through the rubble of the Refco meltdown has turned up some positives, chief among them the degree to which communication among clearing firms, exchanges and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic kept the financial chicanery involving Refco's books from destroying the firm's regulated futures commission merchant and...
January 01, 2005
Acquisitive FidelityConsolidation in the clearing business continues apace. As Investment Advisor went to press, National Financial, Fidelity Investments' clearing arm, announced on Dec. 16 that it...
October 13, 2004
Preparing For The UnthinkableNU Online News Service, Oct. 13, 2004, 4:32 p.m. EDTOfficials from a company that helps keep the world financial system running will participate in ...