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Treasury Operations: From Basics to Optimal

December 14, 2018 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Where are my cash and securities and am I achieving the best bang for the buck? Treasury management staffers at hedge fund management shops are belatedly realizing that the difference between either knowing or not knowing the answer to the interrelated questions could translate into the difference between average and higher investment performance. The savviest […]

Filed Under: Financing, Outsourcing, Post-Trade Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Outsourcing, Post Trade

Form N-PORT: Managers Report Big Stress

October 27, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Update 12/12/2017: Fund managers shouldn’t feel too relieved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s delay on when they must submit Form N-PORT. On December 8, the SEC said that fund managers can wait until April 2019 at the earliest to transmit their completed Form N-PORT to the regulatory agency’s Edgar system. However, fund managers […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Derivatives, Financing, Funds, Investments, Regulations, Reporting, Sec Lending, Slider, Uncategorized Tagged With: Collateral, Compliance, Data, Derivatives, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Regulators, Reporting, SEC

Pre-Release ADRs: More SEC Fines on the Way?

January 30, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

First ITG. Who is next? That is the question fund managers and other investors are asking themselves after learning that the US Securities and Exchange Commission fined broker-dealer ITG $24.4 million for violating regulations on how it used the pre-released shares of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The SEC says that ITG violated Section 17(a)3 of […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Financing, Funds, Investments, Investors, Risk, Rules, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Custodians, Depositories, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Middle Office Ops, Regulators, SEC, Settlement, Standards, Valuation

Hedge Funds to Prime Brokers: Getting to Yes

June 16, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Once in the catbird’s seat when picking prime brokers, hedge fund managers are now faced with doing their own sales jobs. They have to persuade prime brokers to accept them as clients with expectations that align. With prime brokers becoming far more selective, hedge fund managers might not get their first choice of prime brokers or […]

Filed Under: Financing, Outsourcing, Post-Trade, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Outsourcing, Post Trade

Custodian Banks: New Landscape, New Strategies

March 29, 2016 By Chris Kentouris 1 Comment

A new research report authored by Morgan Stanley and consultancy Oliver Wyman has resurrected the debate over how some of the world’s largest custodian banks will need to rethink their time-honored strategy. Gathering more assets from more clients won’t be enough to sustain profitability. Earnings are under pressure from low interest rates and a historical […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Corporate Actions, Custody, Financing, Outsourcing, Post-Trade, Slider Tagged With: Collateral, Corporate Actions, Custodians, Data, Depositories, Middle Office Ops, Post Trade

US T+2 Settlement: The Long Journey Officially Begins

September 22, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

What a difference a day makes. Until September 16, the US financial industry had only been talking about a two-day settlement cycle. Only a preliminary roadmap of the stepping stones to T+2 had been completed, indicating that at least 30 operational workflows will be affected, requiring rule, behavioral and technology changes. On that day Securities and Exchange Commission […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Financing, Funds, Infastructure, Investments, Ops Risk, Post-Trade, Sec Lending, Settlement, Slider, Standards, Trading Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Depositories, DTCC, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Matching, Middle Office Ops, Ops Risk, Post Trade, Regulators, SEC, Standards, T+2

Basel III: How Hedge Fund Managers Must Leverage Prime Brokers

September 1, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

“How important is this relationship to you?” That question is often asked by concerned spouses or romantically involved parties to get a status check on just how well their relationship is faring. For the first time ever, hedge fund managers could be forced to pose the same question to their prime brokers, thanks to the […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Custody, Derivatives, Financing, Funds, Risk, Slider Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Regulators

News to Use: EquiLend, 4sight and Russia’s NSD

April 6, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Match, Game On: Borrowers and lending agents in securities transactions executed through EquiLend, an electronic trading platform, will now be able to reconcile far more transaction details and enable lending departments to work smarter. Although EquiLend’s new matching engine is still geared to US and foreign securities, the company expects it to have greatest uptick in […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Clearing, Financing, Operations, Ops Risk, Post-Trade, Sec Lending, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, Depositories, Investment Ops, Matching, Middle Office Ops, Post Trade, Settlement

Securities Finance Data Analysis: A Wing and a Prayer?

November 19, 2014 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, or make that what regulators weave! If the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has its way, back-office operations executives at fund managers, custodians and broker-dealers will be working overtime to track down hoards of data on securities lending and repurchase agreements with no certainty it will be of any […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Financing, Reporting, Slider Tagged With: Collateral, Compliance, Data, FSB, Regulators, Reporting

DTCC’s Institutional Tri-party Repo Clearing: Great Idea…Maybe

October 23, 2014 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

A recent proposal by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. to serve as the middleman for a large chunk of the institutional tri-party repo market through its subsidiary Fixed Income Clearing Corp. might sound like a great way to reduce counterparty risk and the potential for fire sale of collateral, but with so few details unveiled […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Financing, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: Collateral, DTCC, Settlement

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