The state of New York has amended its “first-in-the-nation” cybersecurity regulations and will be requiring financial services firms to report ransomware amounts just as cyberattacks are increasing, according to the regulator New York State Department of Financial Services (NYS DFS) and New York Governor Kathy Hochul. In addition to the ransomware reporting, the updated regulations… Read More >>
NYFIX Launches Real-Time Recs & Other News
New Offering Matches Fills In Real-Time A FIX protocol-based reconciliation offering, dubbed NYFIX Fill Matching, has been launched by post-trade systems and services provider Broadridge Financial Solutions, which adds that the solution compliments Broadridge’s post-trade NYFIX Matching solution. NYFIX Fill Matching targets the needs of asset managers “with high volume and/or high-touch orders,” according to… Read More >>
Financial Crime Fighting’s Price Tag Hits $206B
Financial crimes cost banks and other financial services institutions big bucks. This means that complying with the rules and processes meant to deter those financial crimes costs big bucks too. Makes sense, right? Now, thanks to our friends at LexisNexis and Forrester Research, we have a snapshot of the actual numbers. According to the report “True Cost… Read More >>
Goldman Sachs Reportedly Hiring for Ops & Other News
Fed Concerns May Be Spurring Hiring Spree Goldman Sachs Group has reportedly been on a hiring spree for back-office operations and its compliance department positions as a result of supervisory issues raised by Federal Reserve officials, according to multiple media reports, including those from Bloomberg and Reuters. The Bloomberg report noted that the firm intends… Read More >>
CCOs Worry Most About SEC’s Marketing Rule: Survey
The SEC’s controversial marketing rule, a comprehensive effort to regulate investment advisers’ marketing communications, remains a top concern among the chief compliance officers (CCOs) at these firms, according to the results of the 2023 Investment Management Compliance Testing (IMCT) survey. Nearly three-quarters of survey respondents, or 70.32 percent, chose advertising/marketing as the hottest compliance issue… Read More >>
BT Trading Integrates Flexenet Private Wires & Other News
BT and Flexenet Launch Partnership BT officials can now offer Flexenet Private Wires connectivity “fully integrated with its BT Trading unified communications and collaboration (UCC) platform” via a new partnership between BT and Flexenet. Officials from both companies report that the new partnership is intended to provide clients with more options for cloud-based trading floor… Read More >>
SEC Takes Aim at Binance & Coinbase: Reporter’s Notebook
Crypto-currency is crapto-currency. Naturally, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission wouldn’t put it that way. The commission is much too proper. But take it from FTF News, that’s the gist of the SEC’s recent complaint against Binance Holdings Ltd. and Changpeng Zhao, its founder. It’s also the gist of a second legal complaint, alleging similar… Read More >>
FINRA Expels Long Island Firm & Suspends CEO
Forget for just a moment, if you can, the $75 million Deutsche Bank will pay to settle a lawsuit brought by the alleged victims of the late-but-not-great financier Jeffrey Epstein and turn your attention to Long Island, New York. (Forget too, if you can, that George Santos, the monumentally unfit U.S. Congressman is supposed to… Read More >>
N.Y. Attorney General Wants New Crypto Regulations
New York Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to controversy and to major legal forays such as her recently proposed legislation, described as “the strongest and most comprehensive set of regulations” in the U.S. to govern cryptocurrency markets. The proposed legislation, the Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency & Oversight (CRPTO) Act, would give James more… Read More >>
Goldman Sachs Settles Gender Bias Case for $215M
Goldman Sachs and the law firms representing 2,800 women — Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, and Outten & Golden — announced that they have resolved a gender discrimination class action lawsuit for $215 million, ending a legal action that began in 2010 and would have gone to trial next month, officials say. A lawyer for… Read More >>
