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 […]
Cybersecurity and AML: How the Twain Must Meet?
What is the connection between a bank’s cybersecurity breach or event and money laundering? The same criminal. says the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. That’s why FinCEN wants financial firms to include information on cybersecurity events or breaches on their suspicious activity reports (SARs). Doing so will ensure that the financial firm is on […]
Europe’s PRIIPs: When Being Clear Isn’t All That Easy
Fund managers, banks and insurance firms can now breathe a collective sigh of relief, but not for long. The European Commission has just announced that it has postponed by one year the implementation date for new legislation requiring financial firms to more clearly explain the risks and rewards of some investment products that fall under […]
Seeking a Few Good Men (Women) for ISIN Governance Role
Do you work for a fund manager, bank, broker dealer or altenative trading platform and have extensive product knowledge of interest rate, foreign exchange, credit and commodity derivatives, understand reference data, data management, architecture and implementation of data standards? If the answer is yes to all or most of the criteria, you could end up […]
ANNA FIXes Tech Specs for OTC ISIN Allocation
If operations and IT managers of the biggest trading firms and trading platforms have been wondering exactly how they’ll get their hands on International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) for over-the-counter derivatives when they need them for transaction reporting under Europe’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), they found part of the answer last week. […]
New York Proposed Cyber Rules: Too Much, Too Fast
Cutting down one risk — that of a cybersecuity breach — is promising to add a lot more risk of other kinds. Those would be increased costs and liability. The New York State Department of Financial Services has gone further than its federal peers by mandating hard and fast policies instead of risk-based methodology to […]
Outsourced Compliance Officers: Red Flag for SEC?
The decision of the US Securities and Exchange Commission to require fund managers to disclose on their Form ADV whether they have outsourced their chief compliance officer role is starting to cause some angst. Asset managers wonder if they will be targeted for additional scrutiny, only because they delegated their regulatory compliance work to an external provider. […]
OTC Derivatives Players: The ISIN Engine Emerges (Updated)
Editor’s Note: On September 20, ANNA announced that the automated allocation engine for international securities identification numbers for OTC derivatives would also support the derivatives product taxonomy created by the FIX Trading Community as well as other open-standard product taxonomies. The mapping of the FIX taxonomy with the ISO taxonomy is set to be completed […]
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Frontier in AML Compliance
Concerned about potential regulatory fines and skyrocketing costs, the world’s largest banks are turning to artificial intelligence to improve their compliance with know-your-customer and anti-money laundering regulations. “The value proposition for AI solutions is highest for large banks with significant volumes, complexity, multiple lines of business and geographical reach as these banks are affected most […]
Fund Managers Outsource More Mid-Office Ops
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 […]