Just one week after she was appointed, Alex Oh has resigned her position as the director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement. Oh cited ”personal reasons,” according to a commission statement. However, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other media report that the abrupt resignation was prompted by the… Read More >>
Regulators Brace for Impacts of a Hard Brexit
The Brexit saga continues as the government of the United Kingdom debates how to create either a clear, negotiated path away from the European Union or leave via a much more risky, unnegotiated “hard exit.” As of this Monday night, April 1, the U.K. parliament was still mulling its options. The only certainty is that… Read More >>
U.S. Leads U.K. in Regulating Financial Crime: Report
The United States is far tougher than the United Kingdom when it comes to imposing penalties for “serious economic crime such as financial fraud or money laundering.” That is the view of Corruption Watch, a London-based anti-corruption non-governmental organization, or NGO, founded in 2009. Most recently, Corruption Watch “conducted an in-depth analysis of the enforcement… Read More >>
Get Ready for the FTF Awards 2019
Never mind the Golden Globes, the Oscars or any of the other awards events, the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2019 are about to get underway. We will kick off the first step via the nominations process, which begins Monday, January 7. The nomination categories can be found here. You will have until January… Read More >>
Apollo Global Management Reaches $52.7M Settlement with SEC
Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has settled with the SEC for $52.7 million for alleged fee and conflict of interest violations while the firm counters that it has been enhancing its disclosure and compliance efforts related to these matters long before the regulator’s inquiry began. SEC officials are charging that four private equity fund… Read More >>
Investors Still Like Sell-Side Salespeople
An interesting report on how investors still rely on sell-side advice and interactions even while swap trading is moving quickly to electronic platforms slipped past me, but it’s worthy of belated notice. The report (issued late last month) from Greenwich Associates, “Interest-Rate Derivatives Sales: Not What It Used To Be, But No Less Important,”… Read More >>
Can Good Come from the Sins of Wall Street?
Thanks to the fines imposed upon Wall Street and insurance firms for their sins during the Great Recession, the New York State government has a $5.1 billion surplus for fiscal year 2016. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other politicians in Albany are scrambling to sort out how to spend the windfall in the best… Read More >>
O’Malia Sets the Agenda for ISDA
Scott O’Malia, the relatively new CEO for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has been on the job for “some five weeks,” and he has been busy. FTF News readers will remember that O’Malia was until recently a rather vocal and active CFTC commissioner who among other accomplishments brought attention to many of the… Read More >>
