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Coronavirus :The Corporate Actions Side Effect

May 11, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

greciafree angela alvarez onlyfans Corporate actions analysts and operations managers working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic could unintentionally end up leaving money on the table as they scramble to deal with companies either postponing some events or changing the terms of others. That’s what Jonny Ruck, chief executive officer at London- headquartered corporate actions analytics […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Investments, Investors Tagged With: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Investment Ops, Investors, Regulators

COVID-19: Addressing Return to Work Legal Quirks

May 6, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The eventual return of Wall Street’s trading and operations executives to their physical offices as the coronavirus pandemic subsides could end up being a cause for litigation and employee angst, rather than celebration, if C-suite executives don’t carefully balance profit-making with worker safety. Knowing when employees can come back to work is the easiest part […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Regulators, Risk Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Regulators, Security

SEI Sues SS&C For Threatening to Shut Advent/Moxy Access

April 29, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Fund administrator SEI Global Services has sued rival SS&C Technology Holdings and subsidiary SS&C Advent for allegedly trying to put SEI out of business by cutting off its access to critical portfolio accounting technology SEI needs to service its fund manager clients. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court in the SEI’s backyard in […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Funds, Regulations Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Post-Trade, Regulators

CSDR: Partial Settlement Means a Full Ops Headache

April 27, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

In permitting partial settlement of securiies transactions to relieve financial penalties, the new European Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR) will unintentionally cause fund managers, broker-dealers and others more operational grief. The CSDR is designed to harmonize the operating rules for all national European securities depositories, including using the same methodology to calculate fines when trades […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Operations, Post-Trade, Regulations, Settlement Tagged With: Compliance, Depositories, ESMA, Regulators, Settlement, Standards

Coronavirus Plagues AML Compliance Managers

April 9, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The new coronavirus pandemic is testing the ability of anti-money laundering (AML) analysts and compliance managers to adjust their methodologies and technology quickly enough to catch criminal activity. Financial firms must still conduct due diligence when onboarding customers and file suspicious activity reports (SARs) if necessary within 30 to 45 days after an alert is […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Regulations, Rules Tagged With: AML, Compliance, KYC, Regulators, Reporting

Coronavirus: How CCOs Can Manage (Virtually)

April 3, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

For chief compliance officers at financial firms, following the five Ps — prioritize, plan, protect, preserve, and paper– with the help of IT managers will become critical to ensure employees working remotely meet corporate and regulatory requirements. “Even the best designed business continuity plans likely didn’t take a global pandemic into account,” says Kristin Koloniaris, […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Reporting, Rules Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, FINRA, Fund Ops, Regulations, Reporting, SEC

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

Coronavirus: Survival Tips for Middle Office Fund Ops

March 26, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The coronavirus pandemic is frazzling even the best trained middle-office operations managers of US fund management shops who are working in the trenches of a battlezone. The war isn’t about setting up remote access to IT systems for employees having to work from home or deciding who should do which task and when. Following a […]

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

New Trade Execution Transparency Tests Data Exchange

March 18, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Complying with a new US regulatory requirement for brokers to give investors more information on trade routing decisions under the amended Rule 606 could come down in the short-term to technologists creating the right packaging as much as operations managers finding the right data. With less than a month left to prepare for the April […]

Filed Under: Compliance Data, Regulations, Rules Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Regulations, Reporting, SEC

Vote Confirmation: Devil in the Operations Details

March 3, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Determining whether a vote was actually counted at a corporate meeting has resurrected a sparring match among transfer agents, financial intermediaries, issuers and Broadridge Financial over how to operationally get the job done. Among the participants on a new end-to-end vote confirmation committee set up by the Securities and Exchange Commission to address the issue, […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Investors, Regulators, Rules Tagged With: Compliance, Investors, Regulations, SEC, Standards

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