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Coinbase Europe Fined $3.6M by Dutch Central Bank

February 7, 2023 by Louis Chunovic

Coinbase Europe Fined $3.6M by Dutch Central Bank

It’s been a tough year for Coinbase and we haven’t even reached Valentine’s Day yet. If you’re so inclined, you can trace the troubles of the present-day cryptography movement back to Japan in 2010 and the rise of Mount Gox, the original bitcoin power. It was a quick rise and a fast fall: by 2014,… Read More >>

Filed Under: Digital Transformation, Securities Operations, General Ops, Regulation, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Cybersecurity, Governance, KYC, Operational Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, General Interest Tagged With: cryptocurrency marketplace, Crypto-Trading, cryptocurrency exchanges, automation, back office, data management, compliance, blockchain, Buy-side, Securities Operations

State Street to Use AWS & Azure for Overhaul & Other News

February 6, 2023 by FTF News

State Street to Use AWS & Azure for Overhaul & Other News

Two State Street Data Centers to Move to AWS State Street Corp. has picked Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a cloud services and data center provider while simultaneously expanding a current contract with Microsoft’s Azure cloud services in order to give clients real-time data access across State Street tools and third-party services thus streamlining investment… Read More >>

Filed Under: Diversity, Digital Transformation, ESG, Securities Operations, Automation, Blockchain/DLT, Buy-Side, Data Management, General Ops, Performance Measurement, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, Derivatives Operations, FinTech Ops, Artificial Intelligence, Back-Office Tagged With: anti-money laundering (AML), Digital Asset, BNY Melloe, automation, back office, Dodd-Frank, data management, compliance, wall street, operational risk

Should Banks Disclose Climate Targets of Portfolio Companies?

February 1, 2023 by Louis Chunovic

Should Banks Disclose Climate Targets of Portfolio Companies?

As global climate instability rocks regions and countries, we know what Greta Thunberg would say. Young people may not have any future at all, the famous Swedish teen eco-activist and climate sybil would exclaim, because “that future was sold so that a small number of people could make unimaginable amounts of money.” Presumably, Ms. Thunberg… Read More >>

Filed Under: Diversity, ESG, Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Performance Measurement, Derivatives Processing, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Operational Risk, Industry News, Human Interest Tagged With: environmental, environmental, social and governance (ESG), greenhouse gas emissions, climate risk, GHG, compliance, wall street, Securities Operations, climate change

DTCC Guide Demystifies T+1 Testing

February 1, 2023 by Eugene Grygo

DTCC Guide Demystifies T+1 Testing

In the U.S., there have been many serious discussions and efforts to move the securities industry from the trading day plus two (T+2) settlement cycle to T+1. In addition, the regulators, standards groups, and industry associations are mulling the changes that must be made to facilitate the shift to T+1. But, at some point, the… Read More >>

Filed Under: Digital Transformation, Securities Operations, Automation, Buy-Side, Corporate Actions, Data Management, General Ops, Outsourcing, Performance Measurement, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, FinTech Ops, Artificial Intelligence, Back-Office, Integration, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Cybersecurity, Governance, KYC, Operational Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, Opinion, Minding the Gap, Blog Tagged With: T+1 settlement, DTCC, automation, back office, SEC, data management, compliance, settlement, Eugene Grygo, Minding the Gap, Securities Operations

BNY Mellon Targets Buy Side via Outsourced Trading & Other News

January 30, 2023 by FTF News

BNY Mellon Targets Buy Side via Outsourced Trading & Other News

New Services Offered via BNY Mellon Capital Markets      BNY Mellon is targeting buy-side firms with a new outsourced, multi-asset, global trading service that the custodian bank says will help clients cut spending on data, trading infrastructure, analytics, reporting, and associated trade execution support functions. With asset managers and asset owners also in mind, the… Read More >>

Filed Under: Digital Transformation, Securities Operations, Automation, Buy-Side, Data Management, General Ops, Outsourcing, Derivatives Operations, Regulation, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Integration, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Governance, KYC, Operational Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News Tagged With: automation, back office, data management, compliance, wall street, BNY Mellon, operational risk, Securities Operations

Many Firms Can’t Leverage Valuable Ops Data: Q&A

January 27, 2023 by Eugene Grygo

Many Firms Can’t Leverage Valuable Ops Data: Q&A

(Editor’s note: Many financial services firms can “only leverage a small portion of the data they possess on a modern data platform to generate insight — the rest is simply used for processing activities,” says Kapil Bansal, managing director, global head of data strategy and analytics, business architecture at DTCC, via an FTF News Q&A…. Read More >>

Filed Under: Digital Transformation, Securities Operations, Automation, Buy-Side, Data Management, General Ops, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, Derivatives Operations, Regulation, Back-Office, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Governance, KYC, Operational Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, Opinion, Q&As Tagged With: DTCC, automation, back office, data management, compliance, Standards, securities trading services, wall street, open source technology, Securities Operations

BNY Mellon Adds RTP to Pershing Platform & Other News

January 20, 2023 by FTF News

BNY Mellon Adds RTP to Pershing Platform & Other News

Pershing’s NetXInvestor Supports RTP An investor portal used by broker-dealers and registered investment advisors (RIAs), NetXInvestor from BNY Mellon Pershing, will be integrating real-time payments (RTP) technology to assist clients as they manage their portfolios, officials say. “RTP is a new form of electronic money transfer that enables real-time deposits and withdrawals, giving broker-dealers and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Digital Transformation, Securities Operations, Automation, Blockchain/DLT, Buy-Side, Data Management, General Ops, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Integration, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Governance, KYC, Operational Risk, Industry News, Human Interest Tagged With: BNY Mellon Pershing, cryptocurrency trading, back office, data management, compliance, blockchain, BNY Mellon, cryptocurrency, distributed ledger technology (DLT)

USAA Outsources Fund Accounting to SS&C & Other News

January 18, 2023 by FTF News

USAA Outsources Fund Accounting to SS&C & Other News

USAA to Shift 60 Staff Members to SS&C GlobeOp  SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. reports that it has entered into an “outsourced administration arrangement with USAA Real Estate.” Based in San Antonio, Texas, USAA Real Estate acquires, develops, finances, and manages real estate assets in North America and Europe, and manages approximately $35 billion in net… Read More >>

Filed Under: Private Markets, Digital Transformation, Securities Operations, Automation, Buy-Side, Data Management, General Ops, Outsourcing, Performance Measurement, Reconciliations, Settlement and T+2, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Case Studies, Middle-Office, Governance, KYC, Industry News, People Moves, Human Interest Tagged With: back office, data management, compliance, private capital, SS&C, private equity funds, wall street, operational risk, real estate, Securities Operations

800 BitConnect Victims to Share $17M in Restitution

January 18, 2023 by Eugene Grygo

800 BitConnect Victims to Share $17M in Restitution

About 800 victims of the BitConnect cryptocurrency investment scheme will be getting some of their money back, which may serve as a ray of hope for other crypto-fraud victims left in the cold of a crypto winter full of scandal. But it will be a thin ray as the BitConnect Ponzi scheme claimed 4,154 victims… Read More >>

Filed Under: Automation, Data Management, General Ops, FinTech Ops, Back-Office, Middle-Office, Risk Management, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, AML/Fraud/Financial Crime, Cybersecurity, Governance, KYC, Operational Risk, Regulatory Reporting, Industry News, General Interest, Human Interest Tagged With: cryptocurrency trading, Bitconnect, automation, back office, SEC, data management, compliance, Standards, wall street, U.S. Department of Justice, Ponzi scheme, cryptocurrencies

FIA Wants FCMs Exempt from Repo Clearing Proposal

January 12, 2023 by Eugene Grygo

FIA Wants FCMs Exempt from Repo Clearing Proposal

Walt L. Lukken, president and CEO, of the Futures Industry Association (FIA) has sent a letter to the SEC asking the regulator to exempt futures commission merchants (FCMs) from complying with proposed rules that would set new standards for covered clearing agencies for U.S. Treasury securities. “The SEC has proposed rules that would significantly expand… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Automation, Data Management, General Ops, Derivatives Operations, Clearing, Collateral Management, Derivatives Processing, Regulation, FinTech Ops, Back-Office Tagged With: Futures Clearing Merchants (FCMs), automation, back office, SEC, CFTC, data management, compliance, clearing, Futures Industry Association, collateral management, Securities Operations, futures and options

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