As 2020 heads toward the finish line, it’s time to think about winter holiday gadgets that will help distract us from the rougher edges of what is proving to be a painfully pivotal year. For the moment, I am spotlighting some interesting items that I became aware of because of the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular, a… Read More >>
CFTC Offers a Rewards System for Cooperation
The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement (DOE) is spelling out what it means when it says that a firm has been cooperative via an enforcement investigation. The goal is to let the public get a better view into how a firm maximized cooperation and minimized painful penalties. The clarity comes from a new guidance that the… Read More >>
Are Manual Systems Too Costly for Hedge Funds?
Hedge funds are paying a high price for manual processes and legacy IT infrastructures, according to new analysis from TradingScreen, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings for transaction processing. The research indicates that hedge funds “are absorbing a punishing $8 million annual hit to their assets under management (AUM) due to high levels of manual… Read More >>
Asset Mispricing via the Crisis Tops Concerns: Survey
It is nearly impossible to draw useful conclusions about the effects of the economic crisis that we find ourselves in as a result of the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But, a month ago, the CFA Institute released the results of a major survey of its membership that points to big concerns over mispricing,… Read More >>
Jefferies Honors CFO & Donates to Coronavirus Charities
The investment bank Jefferies Group held a Global Coronavirus Relief Charity Day on Wednesday, May 27, and, on the next day, announced that it will donate $9.25 million to more than 85 charities and relief efforts focused on those suffering from the COVID-19 virus. The firm dedicated this effort to the memory of Mr. Peregrine… Read More >>
Why StatPro Agreed to the Confluence Takeover
StatPro’s board of directors announced late last week that it had agreed to a takeover offer from Confluence via Bidco in an all-cash agreement of approximately £161.1 million ($201.3 million). The deal will take the company private — apparently in an effort to give customers fuller product platforms via a combined company. To recap, StatPro… Read More >>
Doing What We Can for 9/11 Survivors
Today, Americans are honoring those we lost on Sept. 11, 2001, including those who were in the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. I will be taking time out to remember those Wall Street friends, former co-workers, and acquaintances who were taken away too soon. I will wonder what their lives would have been like, if… Read More >>
BNY Joins ISDA’s Online Effort for IM Documents
Officials at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and the Linklaters law firm report that BNY Mellon is the first custodian to go live via the new custody support function of ISDA Create — IM, an online, initial margin automated documentation support offering. The IM online tool allows firms to electronically negotiate and execute… Read More >>
Thomson Reuters Holds a RegTech Contest
Thomson Reuters is conducting a global regulatory technology competition that will give “early stage start-ups in the legal, tax and regulatory space” a chance to partner with the vendor of business information services. Those start-ups are asked to apply by Sept. 9, 2019 by visiting the website here. “Entrants will be judged on criteria that… Read More >>
Custodians Are Embracing APIs: Report
The securities servicing industry, according to a new survey, is reaching a “tipping point” in its embrace of application program interfaces (APIs), which are those key links among software systems that serve as superhighways for data, and are intended to help firms boost efficiency and adopt to new business models. The new report from SWIFT… Read More >>
