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Coronavirus :The Corporate Actions Side Effect

May 11, 2020 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Corporate actions analysts and operations managers working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic could unintentionally end up leaving money on the table as they scramble to deal with companies either postponing some events or changing the terms of others. That’s what Jonny Ruck, chief executive officer at London- headquartered corporate actions analytics technology firm Scorpeo is […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Investments, Investors Tagged With: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Investment Ops, Investors, Regulators

SEC’s Proxy Voting Guidance: What About Corporate Actions?

September 13, 2019 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent guidance on proxy voting may have unintentionally raised the issue of whether fund managers are meeting their fiduciary obligations when they vote in one-off voluntary corporate action events. Compliance managers at several US fund management firms tell FinOps Report that following the publication of the SEC’s publication of […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Investments, Investors Tagged With: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Investment Ops, Regulators, SEC

Cryptocurrency: Next Frontier for Cost-Basis Reporting

April 27, 2018 By Chris Kentouris 2 Comments

US personal tax day, April 17, was either the beginning of a lot of heartache or overdue operational relief for investors in cryptocurrency. Investors who haven’t paid the right amount of taxes for profits earned during the cryptocurrency boom could face fines and audits from the Internal Revenue Service. Alternatively, they could also benefit from […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Investors, Slider, Tax, Trading Tagged With: bitcoin, Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Investment Ops, Tax

EU’s SRD: Reworking Proxy Services

December 20, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Custodian bank operations managers should start planning to get their hands a lot dirtier in the proxy plumbing process. The new version of the European Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD) calls for them to respond to European issuer requests for identifying investors who hold more than 0.5 percent of a company’s stock, to forward proxy information […]

Filed Under: Corporate Actions, Custody, Investments, Investors, Rules, Sec Lending, Slider, Standards Tagged With: Compliance, Corporate Actions, ESMA, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Outsourcing, Regulators

Middle-Office Blockchain: BNP Paribas, Broadridge

October 20, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Recent announcements of blockchain pilots from BNP Paribas Securities Services and Broadridge Financial show how distributed ledger technology continues to make inroads into the post-trade arena. Both come with claims of operational efficiencies through a single indisputable source of data that reduces the potential for processing errors. BNP Paribas Securities Services project for corporate action […]

Filed Under: Corporate Actions, Data, Innovation, Operations, Post-Trade, Sec Lending, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Blockchain, Collateral, Corporate Actions, Custodians, Data, Middle Office Ops, Post Trade, Reconciliation

MiFID II: Reporting on Corporate Action Decisions

September 28, 2017 By Chris Kentouris 2 Comments

Update 11/27/2017: Under MiFID II, a financial firm must still report shares received as its entitlement from a voluntary corporate action even it never explicitly told the issuer its choice of payment. On November 12, in response to an inquiry from Scorpeo Analytics, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said that investors may intentionally […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Data, Regulations, Reporting, Slider Tagged With: Corporate Actions, ESMA, MiFID, Reporting

Countdown to US T+2: Five Last Minute Tips

August 30, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

It’s now or never when it comes being ready for the pending two-day settlement cycle in the US. With September 5, the day T+2 becomes effective, just around the corner, operations and IT managers are taking the opportunity to verify that their front, middle and back office systems are tweaked correctly. And that their counterparties […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Funds, Infastructure, Sec Lending, Settlement, Slider, Standards, Trading, Uncategorized Tagged With: Collateral, Compliance, Corporate Actions, DTCC, Fund Ops, Matching, Middle Office Ops, Ops Risk, Post Trade, SEC, Settlement, Standards, T+2

T+2: Exchanges Ex September 5 for Corporate Actions

June 23, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

With the two-day settlement cycle on the horizon in the US, market players have their hands full, ensuring they have adapted their front, middle and back-office operations correctly before September 5. However, one major concern about the changeover has just been relieved. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have eliminated September 5 as an […]

Filed Under: Corporate Actions, Rules, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Corporate Actions, Ops Risk, Settlement, Standards, T+2

New Tax on US Convertible Bonds: Taxing Air?

May 11, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The US Internal Revenue Service wants withholding agents to collect tax on upticks of the rights of convertible bondholders, despite protests that the levy is nothing more than “tax on air.” That’s how some tax attorneys and operations specialists view the IRS’ Section 305(c) rule on taxing adjustments to the conversion ratio of US convertible financial instruments, as […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Data, Derivatives, Investments, Investors, Rules, Slider Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Data, Depositories, Derivatives, Investment Ops, Regulators, Tax, Valuation

Alternative Funds Industry Tackles Data Culture

March 24, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Chief data officer (CDO) may not the most sought-after position at hedge fund management shops, but that isn’t stopping the C-level executives from pushing hard to create a better data management culture — including finding someone to take on the role, with or without the title. To support this effort, a new group calling itself the Data […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Funds, Investments, Investors, Risk, Security, Slider, Technology Tagged With: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Data, Fund Ops, Hedge Funds, Investment Ops, Ops Risk, Private Equity, Reconciliation, Reporting, Security, Standards, Valuation

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