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Initial Swaps Margin: Facing Final Custodian Interactions

October 30, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Investment funds, which have to meet initial margin requirements for uncleared derivative transactions in 2020 and 2021, will soon find that their biggest legal and middle-office challenges could be dealing with custodian banks. Far more investment funds will be affected by the final phases of initial margin requirements than in the initial four phases, starting […]

Filed Under: calculations, Compliance, Margining Tagged With: Collateral, Compliance, Data, Derivatives, Fund Ops

FINRA’s TBA Margin Rules: Stuck in Government Limbo

January 27, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

(Editor’s update 1/31/2019) The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has decided to give collateral operations and compliance managers a temporary break from complying with new margin requirements for covered agency transactions. FINRA has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a request to extend by an extra year to March 25, 2020 the implementation date of […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Margining, Regulations Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, Data, FINRA, Fund Ops

Margin: Tackling Initial Hurdle for Uncleared Swaps

September 14, 2018 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

First it was variation margin. Now it is initial margin for uncleared swap transactions causing compliance, operations and financial technology managers at fund management shops angst. As of September 1, 2019 many fund managers must know whether they meet the threshold for posting initial margin, calculate it correctly and set up the right custodial contracts […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Margining, Regulations Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Derivatives, Fund Ops

FINRA Rule 4210: Managers Beware of Margin Calls

March 20, 2018 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

With less than 100 days left before new Rule 4210 of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority becomes effective, broker-dealers aren’t the only ones that should be preparing for new margin requirements for to-be-announced (TBAs) transactions and other forward settling fixed-income trades.  Even if indirectly, investment management firms will also be in the regulatory crosshairs. Time is […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Margining, Rules, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, FINRA, Fund Ops, Settlement

Seeking Depository: Call Ireland’s Central Bank (Updated)

August 18, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Update (May 3, 2018) Bank and broker-dealer members of Euroclear UK & Ireland now have to worry about where they will settle trades in Irish equities post-Brexit. They will no longer be able to do so through the shared UK and  Irish depository and parent Euroclear recently announced that it has abandoned plans to set […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Compliance, Infastructure, Margining, Rules, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: Compliance, Custodians, Depositories, ESMA, Investment Ops, Post Trade, Regulators, Settlement

US T+2: SEC Joins the Bandwagon

April 7, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The Securities and Exchange Commission may have just given its official blessing to a shortened trade settlement cycle in the US come September 5, but the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC), its member firms and service providers have already been working long and hard on operational adjustments and industry-wide testing. All this effort will hopefully […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Infastructure, Margining, Post-Trade, Rules, Sec Lending, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: DTCC, Middle Office Ops, Post Trade, SEC, Settlement, Standards, T+2

Variation Margin: Facing the Countdown to March 1

February 15, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

With less than three weeks left until posting variation margin for uncleared swap transactions becomes mandatory, it’s do or die for fund managers still scrambling to be ready by March 1. As FinOps Report went to press, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said in a no-action letter that it would not take any […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Derivatives, Margining, Rules, Slider Tagged With: CFTC, Collateral, Compliance, Custodians, Fund Ops, Regulators, Standards, Swaps

Uncleared Swap Deals: Clarity Is Work in Progress

September 30, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

“It’s not that complicated.” Regulators might have thought that setting specific rules for margining uncleared swap transactions would make life easier for financial firms because they will won’t have to negotiate over how, or even whether to collateralize their deals. They couldn’t have been more wrong. So said panelists and attendees at the International Swaps […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Compliance, Derivatives, Margining, Rules, Slider, Technology, Trading Tagged With: CFTC, Collateral, Compliance, Custodians, Fund Ops, Regulators, Swaps

New TBA Margin Rules: Fund Managers, Brokers Retrench

August 4, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Asset managers and broker-dealers will have to revamp some of their relationship terms, as well as those with the underlying investors, to meet the pending margin requirements for to-be-announced (TBA) transactions and other forward-settling fixed-income transactions. Panelists and attendees at a recent afternoon conference held by the Securities Industry and Financial Market Association about the Financial Industry […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Derivatives, Margining, Risk, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, FINRA, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Regulators

Fund Operations Managers Weather UK’s Brexit Storm

June 30, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

While the UK and European Union leaders will have two years to come up with a gameplan for how the UK will separate from the European Union, middle and back-office operations professionals at fund management shops are taking it one day at a time during extreme market volatility. The UK’s legal limbo has caused higher trading […]

Filed Under: Corporate Actions, Funds, Infastructure, Investments, Investors, Margining, Post-Trade, Rules, Settlement, Slider, Standards, Trading Tagged With: AIFMD, Collateral, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Depositories, EMIR, ESMA, Fund Ops, MiFID, Reporting, Settlement, Standards, T+2

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