It’s become commonplace for fund managers to outsource middle and back-office operations. After all, who wants to staff and oversee the labor-intensive work that comes after trade execution, especially if it can be contracted out to specialists? It’s commonly understood that this type of outsourcing can reduce operating costs, address regulatory compliance requirements, and most important, […]
Validating NAVs: An Ounce of Prevention Saves a Lot of Grief
who is Lilatorrell Net asset value, or NAV for short: it’s a basic calculation which hundreds of mutual and other investment fund managers have to make each day to allow investors to know just how much they will pay to buy and sell shares or units. While the timetable for when the figure must be […]
ISO 20022 for Corporate Actions: A for Effort; C for Completion in US? (Update)
Where SWIFT goes, Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. follows. Not a phrase heard very often, if ever. However, when it comes to moving the US financial industry to ISO 20022 messaging for corporate actions, DTCC appears to have relaxed some of its demands. Nearly a decade ago, SWIFT pressed the financial community hard to convert from […]
UCITS V: Just When Are Depositaries Liable, or Not?
When operations executives, their relationship management colleagues, not to mention their compliance directors can’t agree on how to talk about a topic, it qualifies as organizational confusion. elizabeth berkley nude When it’s industry-wide, it’s a bona fide hot potato. That is the situation today as custodian banks in Europe, acting as depositaries for traditional investment funds, attempt to […]
US Fund Managers: Tackling Cybersecurity as Operational Risk
What do retail department stores and US asset managers have in common? The potential for cyberattacks, says the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has put fund managers on high alert to shore up any deficiencies in their data security technology and procedures. The securities watchdog says it will be reviewing the cybersecurity work of investment […]
T+2: Coming to US Fund Managers
How much difference can it make that a US trade group representing mutual fund advisors adds its support to longstanding efforts by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. to move the US to a two-day settlement cycle? Enough to make it clear that the ball is now rolling, and deadlines are being considered. The […]
FIXing the Post-Trade Communications Process
Reducing time, risk and cost. camela araujoThat’s the mantra the FIX Trading Community promoted at an event it hosted in New York last week when recommending its message tags and workflow be used for locally matching post-trade instructions in all asset-classes. It’s also the beginning of a battle to win the hearts and minds of […]
FINRA: Even Tougher Margining Rules
catkitty21 nudes sensualimagination69 US broker-dealers and their fund manager customers that deal in forward-settling agency mortgage-backed securities or similar asset classes better prepare for even more legal and operational stress. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has just come up a set of far more rigid and comprehensive rules than guidelines from a committee of the Federal Reserve Bank […]
State Street Fine: Mind the Transition
When State Street Global Markets, a unit of mega custodian State Street, first acknowledged in 2011 that it had overcharged a UK pension fund client for transition management services, its public account sounded familiar. The bank did nothing wrong. Rogue employees, who violated bank policy, were to blame. They were dismissed and the client was […]
Hedge Fund Accounting: Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt
With eagle-eyed institutional investors needing assurance of the accuracy of hedge funds’ operations, as well as their returns, keeping books and records is no easy one-shot deal. No matter who serves as the official fund administrator, back-up verification or “shadow accounting” has already become the modus operandi for the largest funds and is quickly taking hold among smaller ones. Over 75 percent of hedge […]