FICC Shutters Website and Moves Customers to www.dtcc.com
Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) formally closed down its long-running customer website, www.ficc.com, on March 24, 2008. Now customers can obtain all their critical operations and clearing information at DTCC’s corporate website, www.dtcc.com.
The move is part of DTCC’s drive to consolidate 14 separate websites maintained by its subsidiaries onto a single site with a unified design, stronger search capabilities and more content.
“DTCC’s corporate website offers everything the FICC site provided plus a lot of additional content in one place,” said Bart Schiavo, DTCC vice president, Product Management, Clearance and Settlement Group. “It also has a more powerful search engine, which makes it faster and easier to find information, plus tighter security and more robust business continuity capabilities.”
What’s more, the corporate site has an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) capability that enables customers to subscribe to newsfeeds from DTCC. By using the Subscription Center feature, customers can receive specific information, such as Important Notices, from FICC in real time via any device that connects to the web, such as computers, cellphones or Blackberrys.
FICC customers who need access to the secured Participants’ Section, which holds delivery instructions and EPN Easypool software, need to contact the DTCC Customer Support Center via email at CSC@dtcc.com to obtain the requisite user IDs and passwords. @
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