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Archegos Debacle Prompts Holistic Counterparty Risk Management

June 23, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The recent implosion of family office Archegos Capital Management should renew interest in counterparty risk management and the need for a holistic program, say some broker-dealer risk management experts. By JP Morgan’s estimates the fallout may have cost some prominent prime brokers, such as combined as much as US$10 billion in trading losses. Archegos’ betting […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Funds, Regulators, Risk Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Regulation, Risk, SEC

FINRA’s CAT: Customer Account Data Management Challenge

November 14, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Reporting correct customer data for the next phase of the requirements of the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) system will end up being a time-consuming and costly exercise in data management for US broker-dealer regulatory reporting, trade compliance and IT managers. US broker-dealers are likely spending all their time addressing interfirm […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Regulations, Reporting Tagged With: Compliance. Brokerage Ops, FINRA, Regulations, Regulators, Reporting, SEC

Fair or Not: Fund Managers Face SEC’s New Valuation Rule

May 21, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Registered investment advisers might find it operationally a lot harder and a lot more expensive to value hard-to-price assets held by mutual funds if the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed modernization of fund valuation practices is adopted. Appointing a chief valuation officer could become necessary to handle the laundry list of new requirements. The […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Funds, Ops Risk Tagged With: Data, Fund Ops, Ops Risk, SEC, Valuation

SEC: CAT Reports Can Omit Some Customer Data

March 31, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Data management units at US broker-dealers and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) will be creating bogus codes for sending trade execution reports required by the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) to conceal the identities of investors and mitigate potential damage from cybersecurity breaches. The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s long-awaited decision earlier this month to […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Regulations, Risk, Security Tagged With: Compliance, Data, FINRA, Investors, Reporting, SEC, Security

Regulatory Ops 2020: Handling Tower of Acronyms

January 9, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Compliance, operations, and IT managers will be teaming up in newly created regulatory operations departments to do data aggregation, contract renegotiation and relationship management in 2020 as they handle a slew of new regulations commonly known by their acronyms or numbers. A telephone survey conducted over the past month by FinOps Report (www.finopsinfo.com) of 100 […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Regulations, Reporting, Rules Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Fund Ops, Regulators, Reporting

California’s Data Privacy Law: Sticky GDPR Differences

September 26, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

What is personal data? Who is your customer? What is the sale of data? For chief data privacy and technology officers who think that the new California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is just a mini-version of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) answering these three simple questions could make them change their minds. Getting them […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Risk, Security Tagged With: Compliance, Security, Standards

Free Webinar: Eight Steps to Manage Third-Party CyberRisk

May 9, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Join FinOps Report (www.finopsinfo.com) for a FREE educational webinar on Managing Third Party CyberRisk: A Best Practice Approach Date: June 4, 2019 Time: 430PM to 530PM EST Interviewer: Chris Kentouris, Editor and Founder of FinOps Report Panelist: Joanna Fields, Managing Principal of Aplomb Strategies For dial-in information please contact Chris.Kentouris@hotmail.com You cannot have the best […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Regulations, Risk, Security Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Investors, Security

Hedge Funds: Proactive Operational Risk, Finally

April 15, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

  Failed trade settlements, bad valuations, bad reconciliations, shoddy vendor management and simple forgetfulness. These glitches aren’t new for hedge fund managers. What is new is that they are turning to management and technology consultants for help.  As regulators, such as  the US Securities and Exchange Commission, look under the hood during exams and investors become […]

Filed Under: Funds, Investments, Ops Risk, Outsourcing Tagged With: Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Post Trade

Consolidated Audit Trail: Those Messy Data Linkages

March 1, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

US brokerage operations managers are quickly turning their attention to how they will meet the cumbersome requirements for data linkages now that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has been stepped in at the eleventh hour to operate the new consolidated audit trail (CAT). The initial phase-in of CAT — 2a and 2b– starting in […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Regulations, Reporting, Rules Tagged With: Compliance, Data, FINRA, Regulators, SEC

NY State of Mind for Cybersecurity: Take Three

August 30, 2018 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The US Labor Day weekend won’t be a happy one for some cybersecurity compliance, technology and operations managers at New York-based banks. They will likely be scrambling to successfully implement the third phase of New York’s onerous cybersecurity rules, effective September 3.  Among the multitude  of tasks to complete under 23 NYCRR 500 encrypting data and […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Regulations, Risk, Security Tagged With: Compliance, Data, GDPR, Security

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