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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

Seeking Depository: Call Ireland’s Central Bank (Updated)

August 18, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Update (May 3, 2018) Bank and broker-dealer members of Euroclear UK & Ireland now have to worry about where they will settle trades in Irish equities post-Brexit. They will no longer be able to do so through the shared UK and  Irish depository and parent Euroclear recently announced that it has abandoned plans to set […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Compliance, Infastructure, Margining, Rules, Settlement, Slider Tagged With: Compliance, Custodians, Depositories, ESMA, Investment Ops, Post Trade, Regulators, Settlement

Variation Margin: Facing the Countdown to March 1

February 15, 2017 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

With less than three weeks left until posting variation margin for uncleared swap transactions becomes mandatory, it’s do or die for fund managers still scrambling to be ready by March 1. As FinOps Report went to press, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said in a no-action letter that it would not take any […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Data, Derivatives, Margining, Rules, Slider Tagged With: CFTC, Collateral, Compliance, Custodians, Fund Ops, Regulators, Standards, Swaps

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

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

Uncleared Swap Deals: Clarity Is Work in Progress

September 30, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

“It’s not that complicated.” Regulators might have thought that setting specific rules for margining uncleared swap transactions would make life easier for financial firms because they will won’t have to negotiate over how, or even whether to collateralize their deals. They couldn’t have been more wrong. So said panelists and attendees at the International Swaps […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Compliance, Derivatives, Margining, Rules, Slider, Technology, Trading Tagged With: CFTC, Collateral, Compliance, Custodians, Fund Ops, Regulators, Swaps

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

Clearing the Decks for Uncleared Swaps Margins

May 27, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Asset managers might not be affected by the new margin requirements on uncleared swap transactions for at least a year. Nonetheless, they are slowly starting to prepare for the inevitable legal and operational teething pains. US banking regulators and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have decided that effective September 2016 or March 2017, depending on […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Compliance, Derivatives, Margining, Rules, Slider Tagged With: Brokerage Ops, CFTC, Collateral, Custodians, Depositories, Fund Ops, Investment Ops, Outsourcing, Regulators, Swaps

Custodian Banks: New Landscape, New Strategies

March 29, 2016 By Chris Kentouris 1 Comment

A new research report authored by Morgan Stanley and consultancy Oliver Wyman has resurrected the debate over how some of the world’s largest custodian banks will need to rethink their time-honored strategy. Gathering more assets from more clients won’t be enough to sustain profitability. Earnings are under pressure from low interest rates and a historical […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Corporate Actions, Custody, Financing, Outsourcing, Post-Trade, Slider Tagged With: Collateral, Corporate Actions, Custodians, Data, Depositories, Middle Office Ops, Post Trade

Europe’s Revised Settlement Regime: Still Problematic? 

March 15, 2016 By Chris Kentouris Leave a Comment

Just who is responsible for fixing a securities transaction which fails to settle on time? a. the securities depository b. the custodian of the injured counterparty c. the injured trading counterparty d. all of the above The European Securities and Markets Authority, the pan-European regulatory agency, recently decided that the answer should be switched from […]

Filed Under: Clearing, Compliance, Post-Trade, Reporting, Rules, Settlement, Slider, Trading Tagged With: Compliance, Custodians, ESMA, Investment Ops, Post Trade, Reporting, Settlement

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