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Dole Class Action Ruling: Short-Selling Clawback Next?

February 23, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

US brokerage and bank operations and compliance managers will soon have to face an onerous back-office and legal challenge — figuring out how to make short sellers pay back $2.74 plus interest for each share of Dole Foods shorted more than three years ago. That money would be used to compensate beneficial investors who are considered the […]

Filed Under: Corporate Actions, Custody, Financials, Investments, Sec Lending, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Collateral, Corporate Actions, DTCC, Investment Ops, Settlement, T+2, Valuation

Pre-Release ADRs: More SEC Fines on the Way?

January 30, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

First ITG. Who is next? That is the question fund managers and other investors are asking themselves after learning that the US Securities and Exchange Commission fined broker-dealer ITG $24.4 million for violating regulations on how it used the pre-released shares of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The SEC says that ITG violated Section 17(a)3 of […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Financing, Funds, Investments, Investors, Risk, Rules, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, Collateral, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Custodians, Depositories, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Middle Office Ops, Regulators, SEC, Settlement, Standards, Valuation

Making Every Proxy Vote Count is Hard Work

December 2, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

An investor casts its vote at an annual or other corporate meeting, but has no way of knowing whether it was actually received and counted.  It could be rejected or even partially accepted, which defeats the purpose of casting the vote in the first place. While the US Securities and Exchange Commission has left market […]

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

T+2 in Canada: Affirmations in the Headlights Again

November 16, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Canada and the US are in lockstep to shorten their settlement cycle from three days to two days on September 5, 2017, but Canada is taking its preparations one step further when it comes to the critical post-trade function of matching trade details. The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), the umbrella organization representing all of Canada’s […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Operations, Settlement, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Compliance, Corporate Actions, Custodians, Depositories, Matching, Middle Office Ops, Reporting, Settlement, T+2

Equity Derivatives Withholding Tax Remains Taxing (Updated)

October 28, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

(Editor’s Note: On November 14, 2016 SIFMA asked the US Treasury to postpone the implementation date of IRS Section 871(m) from January 1, 2017 so that it can resolve a difference of opinion with G5 countries. The UK, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy have told the Treasury that dividend equivalent payments made outside the US […]

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

Accenture, Broadridge, Synechron on Blockchain

October 2, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

The financial world is spending countless hours — and millions of dollars — hypothesizing how blockchain — the new distributed way of storing information — could eliminate huge operational costs. Banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, and securities depositories have started exploring its potential vast use with the help of technology providers. Blockchain could theoretically be applied to […]

Filed Under: Compliance, Data, Post-Trade, Rules, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: AML, Brokerage Ops, Compliance, Corporate Actions, Innovation, KYC, Post Trade, Reconciliation

Northern Trust Minds the Corporate Actions Gap

August 26, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

A successful investment strategy is about more than just buying and selling the right stocks at the right price at the right time. It also depends on picking the best option when it comes to voluntary corporate actions or being able to recognize a bad decision after the fact. Northern Trust is helping its asset […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Corporate Actions, Data, Funds, Innovation, Outsourcing, Slider Tagged With: Corporate Actions, Data, FATCA, Fund Ops, Innovation, Outsourcing

Depository Reforms Russian Corporate Actions Risk

July 19, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Sketchy information on annual meeting agendas or corporate actions announcements is not going to plague investors in Russia equities in the future. Nor will fund managers risk losing money as many do today, because the operational difficulties discourage them from participating. Russia’s corporate actions reform has given the country’s national securities depository National Settlement Depository (NSD) the […]

Filed Under: Corporate Actions, Funds, Infastructure, Slider Tagged With: Corporate Actions, Custodians, Depositories, Fund Ops, Ops Risk

Asset Owners Put Managers on the Operational Hotseat

July 5, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

How do you run your business? If it sounds like an open-ended question for pension plans, endowments and other institutional investors to ask fund managers, it is intended to be. Institutional asset owners hope it will elicit a lengthy discussion over the policies, procedures and technology the fund manager uses to make money before they […]

Filed Under: Funds, Investors, Post-Trade, Slider Tagged With: Corporate Actions, Fund Ops, Middle Office Ops, Ops Risk, Outsourcing, Post Trade, Valuation

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

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