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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

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

CSDR: Using Predictive Analytics to Prevent Fails

July 14, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Predict and prevent– that’s what back-office operations managers at buy and sell-side firms preparing for Europe’s Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) settlement discipline regime are starting to think about so they won’t have to pay hefty financial penalties or endure buy-in requirements if they fail to settle their European trades on time. Instead of bemoaning […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, ESMA, Regulators, Risk, Rules, Rules, Settlement, Standards Tagged With: Compliance, Data, ESMA, Regulators, Risk, Settlement, Standards

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

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

FRTB: Five Ops Steps to Recalculating Market Risk

October 7, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Bank trading desk, risk, and data managers are quickly realizing that the term fundamental in the new Fundamental Review of the Trading Book legislation should be taken literally and they don’t have much time left to prepare. The European Union has set January 2022 as the timetable for banks in its jurisdiction to meet more […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Regulations, Regulators, Risk Tagged With: Compliance, Data, Regulators, Risk

State Street’s US$88M Fine Highlights Deceptive “Pass-Along” Custody Fees

July 30, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

How can a global custodian bank convince clients for almost two decades that a twenty-five cent cost to transmit a message through the SWIFT network transmission is really worth a $5 “pass-along” fee? Easily, when fund managers aren’t paying attention and no one at the custodian bank is minding the shop. That’s no longer the […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Funds, Investments, Regulators Tagged With: Compliance, Custodians, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Regulators

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