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Global Network Management: Are My Assets Safe?

November 13, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Global network managers of custodian banks are redefining the word relationship when it comes to monitoring local agent banks that safekeep assets of underlying clients in multiple countries. It is no longer enough to make a sporadic visit or have a phone call. Global network managers have become detectives sifting through mounts of data to […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Custody, Data, Financials, Funds, Investments, Investors, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, CFTC, Compliance, Custodians, Data, ESMA, FCA, FINRA, Regulators, SEC, UCITS

Fund Managers Outsource More Mid-Office Ops

September 2, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Gone are the days when the middle office is maligned as being strictly a cost-center dragging down investment performance. Today more fund managers are concluding that more effective management of their middle office can not only reduce operating expenses, but also give them a competitive edge with investors and keep regulators at bay. Fund management […]

Filed Under: Outsourcing, Post-Trade, Reporting, Risk, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Compliance, Dodd-Frank, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Middle Office Ops, MiFID, Ops Risk, Outsourcing, Post Trade, Reconciliation, Regulators, Reporting, SEC, Settlement, Standards, T+2

Reporting Securities Finance Deals: More is Less?

August 22, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Say what, say who, say when? That’s the reaction of fund managers, custodians and market infrastructures to the European Securities and Market Authority’s request for feedback on a new regulation requiring reporting information on securities finance transactions to trade repositories. Market players complain that ESMA’s technical specifications for complying with the Securities Finance Transaction Regulation […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Reporting, Sec Lending, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Compliance, ESMA, Fund Ops, Post Trade, Regulators, UCITS

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

New Mutual Fund Reporting Rules: New Operational Angst

May 28, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

If US mutual funds and other registered investment funds feel relief they have been spared from the cumbersome rules for systemically important financial institutions, they may not for much longer. Hefty new disclosure requirements are on the horizon, if the US Securities and Exchange Commission has its way. Although the SEC is seeking industry input before […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Derivatives, Financials, Reporting, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Compliance, Data, Fund Ops, Private Equity, Reporting, SEC, Valuation

News to Use: ISITC, BNY Mellon, Custom House and More

March 23, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Oversight Pointers: Fund managers will soon have practical guidance for best practices in overseeing outsourced operations contracts with custodian bank, fund administrators and other post-trade service providers. The ISITC, trade group representing operations specialists from over 100 buy and sell-side firms, is publishing a white paper with its recommendations in the fall. The guidelines, ISITC officials […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Derivatives, Funds, Margining, Outsourcing, Post-Trade, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Brokerage Ops, Clearinghouses, Collateral, Custodians, Fund Ops, Middle Office Ops, Ops Risk, Outsourcing, Post Trade

FinOps Takes a Byte out of the News — 3/17/2015

March 17, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

A few news items that may be of interest to our readers… CalPERS Pioneering: US pension giant California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has become the first pension plan to join a fully committed repo facility at Chicago-headquartered derivatives clearinghouse OCC. The repo facility provides contingency liquidity in the event of a member default or […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Funds, Innovation, Outsourcing, Regulations, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, FATCA, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, KYC, Private Equity, Reporting, Tax, UCITS

Hedge Funds: Beating the Lost-Administrator Blues

February 27, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

You’re the chief executive or chief operating officer of a small or mid-sized hedge fund manager and have just received a call, visit, or letter from your brand-name fund administrator. The message: Sorry, we love you, but can no longer afford to take care of you, because you are too small to be profitable for us. […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Data, Funds, Operations, Outsourcing, Reporting, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Data, FATCA, Hedge Funds, Middle Office Ops

Custody Network Management: The Rise of the Super Risk Manager

January 29, 2015 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Second article of our two-part series on third-party risk management. For the first article, click here. Hands-on relationship manager. System Analyst. Recruiter. Negotiator. Risk Manager. Hatchet man. Whoa! Too many job descriptions requiring far different different personalities and skills. They couldn’t possibly all be handled effectively by any single individual. These are just a some of […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Custody, Ops Risk, Post-Trade, Risk, Rules, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Compliance, Custodians, Depositories, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Middle Office Ops, Post Trade, Regulators, UCITS

AIFMD Annex IV Reporting: Risk Scrutiny on Deadline

December 17, 2014 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive Annex IV. The long phrase describes at least three hundred points of reference data and other risk metrics alternative fund managers must provide regulators if they want to grab a “passport” to market their funds across European borders. That passport allows them to operate by a single set of rules, rather than […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Reporting, Risk, Risk, Slider Tagged With: AIFMD, Compliance, ESMA, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Regulators, Reporting, Risk Mgt.

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