The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged that Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC offered and sold “an unprecedented amount” of unregistered securities because of a “failure to implement any internal control to track such transactions in real time.” One result of that alleged failure is that both Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC had… Read More >>
BBH to Service Hong Kong’s First Active ETF
BBH to Be Registrar for Active ETF Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has been appointed as the custodian and administrator for the first actively managed exchange traded fund (ETF) domiciled in Hong Kong, officials report. “The ICBC CICC USD Money Market ETF is being launched by China International Capital Corporation (CICC) with ICBC Asset… Read More >>
Barclays, Goldmans & JPMorgan Endorse DTCC’s GTR
Barclays, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have added their names to a growing list of major financial services firms endorsing the Global Trade Repository (GTR) service of the DTCC as a way to fulfill pending regulatory reporting requirements for securities financing transactions (SFTs). French banking giant Société Générale and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) also intend… Read More >>
Five Banks Settle FX Cartel Charges for $1.19B
The European Commission (EC) stunned the foreign exchange (FX) world with the news yesterday that five major banks — Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) — have been fined a total of €1.07 billion ($1.19 billion) on charges that they took part in cartels that monopolized… Read More >>
Barclays Faced Prior Charges on Alleged Whistleblower Violations
An investigation by New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) has resulted in a $15 million fine assessed against Barclays Bank and its New York branch for state whistleblower violations, stemming from alleged attempts by its chief executive officer James Edward “Jes” Staley to identify the author, or authors, of two whistleblowing letters. But the… Read More >>
Barclays Fined $15M for Violating NY Whistleblower Laws
An investigation by New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) has resulted in a $15 million fine assessed against Barclays Bank and its New York branch for violations of the state’s banking law, stemming from attempts by the bank’s CEO to identify the author, or authors, of two whistleblowing letters. The bank’s attempts violated Barclays’… Read More >>
UBS Leads Project for MiFID II LEI Compliance
UBS is collaborating with Barclays, Credit Suisse, KBC Asset Management, SIX and Thomson Reuters to meet MiFID II legal entity identifier (LEI) requirements and improve the quality of counterparty reference data using Ethereum smart contracts. The project, which was kick started by UBS in its London-based innovation lab Level39, is currently in a pilot phase,… Read More >>
HSBC Shuffles Executive Lineup for 2018
Stuart Gulliver to Retire February 2018 HSBC Holdings plc reports that John Flint, 49, chief executive of retail banking and wealth management, will succeed Stuart Gulliver as executive director and group chief executive, following Gulliver’s retirement in February 2018. Flint’s remuneration in his new post will consist of a “base salary of £1,200,000 per annum… Read More >>
UBS Adds Six Banks to Crypto-Currency Settlement Push
The buzz around crypto-currency blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) continues with UBS’s utility settlement coin (USC), adding six of the world’s largest banks — Barclays, HSBC, State Street, Credit Suisse, MUFG and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce — to its roster. The new members join UBS, Deutsche Bank, Santander, BNY Mellon and the financial services… Read More >>
Research Analysts Could Be Casualties of Unbundling
As MiFID II draws closer, there has been a spate of reports predicting the dire consequences of unbundling on Europe’s investment banks. The separation of research from execution is expected to lead to hundreds of job losses for research analysts as banks restructure their operating models, according to a new report from consultancy McKinsey. The… Read More >>
