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When Bernanke Faced the Panic

December 15, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

When Bernanke Faced the Panic

As the world waits breathlessly for the Federal Reserve to render a decision on interest rates, it’s probably a good time to look back to when things really did cause you to stop breathing for a second. That would be the Great Recession when it kicked in during the fall of 2008. On a recent… Read More >>

Filed Under: General Interest, Opinion, Minding the Gap, Industry News Tagged With: Ben Bernanke, economy, Federal Reserve, Freakonomics, interest rates, Lehman Brothers, PIMCO, Reconciliation Whitepaper, Stephen Dubner

Industry Vet to Lead NRI India Expansion

October 9, 2014 by Louis Chunovic

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., a provider of consulting services and system solutions, reports that its NRI Financial Technologies India Pvt. Ltd (NRI FinTech) is establishing a new Mumbai-based group, which will be headed by Dr. Chiragra Chakrabarty. Chakrabarty, who has “more than 15 years of experience providing consultancy services for market development, financial and commodity… Read More >>

Filed Under: Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: Dr. Chiragra Chakrabarty, Lehman Brothers, Nomura Research Institute, NRI Financial Technologies India, NRI FinTech

Prime Brokers and Custodians Bury the Hatchet

August 29, 2014 by Ryan Boysen

Following a rocky courtship just after the financial crisis, prime brokers and custodian banks have now settled into a comfortable – if not quite loving – marriage of convenience as both sides aim to please hedge fund clients, sources say. “In the beginning, there was definitely a lot of competition between the custodian banks and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Buy-Side, Industry News, Middle-Office, FinTech Trends, Back-Office Tagged With: Bank of New York Mellon, Beacon Consulting, Custodian bank, Gerry Healy, Hedge fund, Lehman Brothers, operations, prime broker, reconciliation, reporting, Steve Farlese

Lehman Bros. Creditors to Get $4.6B Distribution

August 19, 2014 by Ryan Boysen

The first distribution of funds to unsecured general creditors of failed investment bank Lehman Brothers will release $4.6 billion, starting “on or about September 10,” a development commended by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) in a statement. The first round represents 17 percent of the total claims still held by general unsecured creditors, according… Read More >>

Filed Under: General Interest, Industry News Tagged With: bankruptcy, Financial Crisis, Lehman Brothers, Securities Investor Protection Corporation, SIPA, SIPC, unsecured general creditor

Good News from the Global LEI Front

January 26, 2012 by Eugene Grygo

Good News from the Global LEI Front

Rarely am I enthusiastic about bureaucratic standards-building processes. But a recent task force report gives me hope that international support for a system of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) is real and will help bring to fruition a key reform for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. Of course, this isn’t the sexy reform that grabs the headlines, but… Read More >>

Filed Under: Minding the Gap Tagged With: CPSS, FSB, iosco, Lehman Brothers, LEIs, ODRF, OTC, SWIFT

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