Wall Street is moving cautiously toward reopening and Monday, June 22, will serve as a milestone for when the securities industry took its first step into the new normal following a crushing pandemic that took 21,000 lives in New York City and brought the world to a halt. After three months of a pandemic lockdown,… Read More >>
Stifel Nicolaus Fined $3.6M on UIT Violation Charges
Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., an investment bank, has been fined $3.6 million by FINRA, a regulatory authority for the financial services industry, for allegedly having an inadequate supervisory system in place to detect potentially unsuitable unit investment trust (UIT) rollovers, and also for failing to provide customers with accurate information so they can make… Read More >>
CAT Helps Sell Side Boost Regulatory Ops: Q&A
(The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) was in the headlines last month as the SEC revised the CAT reporting timeline for broker-dealers due to the complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The new milestones for CAT reporting in 2020 are: June 22: initial equities reporting for large broker-dealers and small broker-dealers that report to FINRA’s Order… Read More >>
SEC & Exchanges Clash Over Market Data Order
U.S. equities exchanges are pushing back on the SEC’s sweeping order directing them and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to improve the governance structure for public, consolidated equity market data and the distribution of trade and quote data from trading venues. The order is intended to change the balance of power among trading venues… Read More >>
Barclays, Goldmans & JPMorgan Endorse DTCC’s GTR
Barclays, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have added their names to a growing list of major financial services firms endorsing the Global Trade Repository (GTR) service of the DTCC as a way to fulfill pending regulatory reporting requirements for securities financing transactions (SFTs). French banking giant Société Générale and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) also intend… Read More >>
GLEIF & ANNA Launch ISIN-to-LEI Mapping Effort
ANNA & GLEIF Join Forces for Regulatory Reporting An initiative is underway that will link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) to Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for global financial services transactions. The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) have announced that April 4, 2019 marks the start of… Read More >>
SEB to Use DTCC Repository for SFTR Compliance
SEB Extends DTCC Agreement via Global Trade Repository Swedish financial group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has decided to use the Global Trade Repository (GTR) services of the DTCC to meet regulatory obligations under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) that are likely to take effect in April 2020. The decision is an extension of SEB’s… Read More >>
Indus Valley Partners Targets CAT Regulatory Reporting
Financial technology vendor Indus Valley Partners (IVP) has launched a module for its IVP Raptor regulatory reporting platform that targets buy-side firms required to comply with FINRA’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) initiative to collect every order, cancellation, modification and trade execution for all exchange-listed equities and options transacted via U.S. financial markets. The SEC-approved CAT… Read More >>
IBM & BearingPoint Target Germany via RegTech BPO Offering
U.S. IT giant IBM and management and technology consultancy BearingPoint will be joining forces to focus on the regulatory technology needs of German financial services firms that are struggling with the demands of Basel III, MiFID II/MiFIR, EMIR II and Solvency II. The Frankfurt-based BearingPoint confirms that its RegTech product unit is partnering with the… Read More >>
Execs Are Growing More Fearful of Bad Data: Survey
Senior risk and regulatory financial services executives in the Americas and Asia-Pacific report changing attitudes regarding the accuracy of their organizations’ data and the impact of upcoming regulations. According to the topline June 2018 results of the most-recent annual survey conducted by AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting systems and techniques for risk assessment and… Read More >>
