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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

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

Etrading Software Nabs Digital Token ID Authority

December 3, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Traders and operations managers handling cryptocurrencies and other digital assets could soon find themselves using new identification codes issued by Etrading Software, pending approval by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the standards-setting body. The London-based Etrading Software has beaten the duo of Bloomberg and Kaiko in the bidding process to be named as the […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Investments, Standards Tagged With: Blockchain, Brokerage Ops, Crypto, Data, Fund Ops

CAT: FINRA’s Exams, Deadlines Won’t Be a Virtual Breeze

September 12, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Trade compliance, regulatory operations, and technology managers at US broker-dealers will need to quickly cross their Ts and dot their I’s when it comes to documentation, data, and IT if they want to pass muster with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s examiners for reporting to the new Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and survive one of […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Regulations, Reporting, Trading Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, FINRA, Regulators, Reporting

Federal Court Tells Interactive Brokers to Comply With FINRA Panel’s $1M Ruling: Right or Wrong

August 24, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

A US federal appeals court has just sent brokerages and their customers a somber message — a ruling by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s arbitration panel is absolute regardless of its validity. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision earlier this month ended a five-year dispute between Interactive Brokers and three former […]

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

Prime Brokerage Enters Crypto Market, Sort Of

July 24, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

First it was digital asset custodians. Now it is aspiring prime brokers who are grabbing the spotlight in the evolution of the cryptoasset market as it tries to become an institutional investor-friendly industry, but with regulations still so murky cryptoasset prime brokers can only be pale reflections of their traditional prime brokerage peers. Although institutional […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Innovation, Rules, Trading Tagged With: Blockchain, Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Crypto

Coronavirus: How CCOs Can Manage (Virtually)

April 3, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

For chief compliance officers at financial firms, following the five Ps — prioritize, plan, protect, preserve, and paper– with the help of IT managers will become critical to ensure employees working remotely meet corporate and regulatory requirements. “Even the best designed business continuity plans likely didn’t take a global pandemic into account,” says Kristin Koloniaris, […]

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

New Trade Execution Transparency Tests Data Exchange

March 18, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Complying with a new US regulatory requirement for brokers to give investors more information on trade routing decisions under the amended Rule 606 could come down in the short-term to technologists creating the right packaging as much as operations managers finding the right data. With less than a month left to prepare for the April […]

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

Regulatory Ops 2020: Handling Tower of Acronyms

January 9, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Compliance, operations, and IT managers will be teaming up in newly created regulatory operations departments to do data aggregation, contract renegotiation and relationship management in 2020 as they handle a slew of new regulations commonly known by their acronyms or numbers. A telephone survey conducted over the past month by FinOps Report (www.finopsinfo.com) of 100 […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Regulations, Reporting, Rules Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Fund Ops, Regulators, Reporting

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