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NYSE Puts FINRA in Hotseat For Proxy Distribution Fee Oversight

April 17, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The issue of which self-regulatory authority will take over the job of setting the maximum fees issuers must pay broker-dealers and banks to mail proxy materials to beneficial shareholders has pitted the New York Stock Exchange against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. leaving proxy operations managers and corporate secretaries in a lurch. The NYSE, which […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Regulations, Regulators, Rules Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Data, FINRA, Fund Ops, Investors, Rules, SEC, Standards

Schwab’s $1.2 M Customer Account Transfer Mistake: Now What?

April 13, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Whoops, it happened again. This time it was a software glitch that led brokerage Charles Schwab to erroneously transfer US$1.2 million from a former retail client’s account to the customer’s new brokerage account at Fidelity Brokerage Services which has left operations managers at rival brokerages scratching their heads and Schwab forced to go to court. […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Investments, Regulations, Rules Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, FINRA, Regulations, Regulators

Rule 605 Reports: Next for Transparency Data Overhaul?

April 3, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

More transparency — the mantra which has taken hold regarding Rule 606 reports — needs to make its way to Rule 605 reports, say trade execution experts and buy-side representatives who are hoping the US Securities and Exchange Commission will take action this year. US broker-dealers which forward orders to trading venues or market makers […]

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

Preventing Pesky US Treasury Settlement Fails

March 15, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

For US broker-dealer operations managers failing to settle a transaction in US Treasury securities might never have been all that problematic, but with the number of fails rising dramatically during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic one megabank–BNY Mellon– has decided to offer a preventative service in a technology partnership with Google Cloud. As the […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Post-Trade, Regulators, Risk, Rules, Settlement Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Regulators, Rules, Standards

New IDs for Digital Assets: FIGIs or ISO-Backed Codes?

February 22, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Does the financial services industry need more than one identification standard for digital assets? Can standards for identifying traditional assets even apply for the digital asset market? Those are the two questions trading, compliance and operations managers at fund management firms, custodians, exchanges, and issuers of digital tokens will soon answer now that they have […]

Filed Under: Blockchains, Compliance, Crypto, Data, Middle Office Ops, Regulators, Standards Tagged With: Blockchain, Compliance, Crypto, Data, Middle Office Ops, Regulators, Standards

Want to be AML Whistleblower? Not So Fast

January 25, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

You work in the anti-money laundering department of a major bank or brokerage and overhear a conversation about how suspicious activity reports are not being filed on a particular client; how the transaction monitoring system is not working properly; or how wire transfers are being made to a country or individual on a US sanctions […]

Filed Under: Regulations, Regulators, Risk, Rules Tagged With: AML, Compliance, Data, Regulators, SEC

Registered Investment Funds 2021: New Derivatives Risk Program

January 13, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

For US traders, risk managers, portfolio managers, and boards of directors of registered fund management firms trading in derivatives, 2021 will be the year they figure out which derivatives to trade and how many to trade for more reasons than just making higher investment returns. Complying with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rule 18f-4 […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Derivatives, Funds, Risk, Rules Tagged With: Compliance Fund Ops, Data, Investment Ops, Regulators, SEC

SEI Loses Antitrust Suit Against SS&C; Use of Geneva Stands

January 4, 2021 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Fund administrator SEI Global Services has lost a legal battle against SS&C Technologies for violating US antitrust regulations, but it appears to have won the critical legal war necessary to ensure the fund administrator can continue using SS&C’s Advent Geneva portfolio accounting system to service its alternative fund clients. On October 23, 2020, Judge Chad […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Funds, Regulations Tagged With: Data, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Outsourcing, Regulations, Regulators

Operational Resilience 2021: The Human Factor

December 29, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Operational resilience will replace business continuity as the mantra for operations, IT and risk managers at fund management firms, banks and brokers in 2021 requiring a whole new combination of procedures, human interactions and even a bit of technology spend. Operational resilience goes far beyond business continuity. “Operational resilience takes a much broader approach to […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Regulators, Risk, Risk Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Data, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Post-Trade, Regulators, Risk

Fund Middle Office 2021: Year of Fair Valuation

December 14, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Middle-office accounting managers at US fund management firms will likely be talking a lot more in 2021 with C-level management,  third party valuation agents, and boards of directors to figure out  just what the terms fair and material mean when it comes to pricing non-exchange traded assets in their portfolios following the Securities and Exchange […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Funds, Regulations, Regulators Tagged With: Compliance, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Middle Office, Operational Risk, Reporting, SEC, Valuation

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