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 >>
Canada Ahead of U.S. in the Basel III Marathon
(Editor’s Note: Regulatory technology solutions provider AxiomSL appointed James Babicz to be its senior vice president and head of the Canadian office in Toronto. Babicz joined AxiomSL from Canadian Western Bank to oversee a team that will drive acceptance of the vendor’s regulatory, risk and data management solutions in response to regulatory demands of the… Read More >>
Mirae Asset Securities Using FIS for Next Move
Mirae Asset Securities (USA), the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Mirae Asset Financial Group, is entering the hedge fund investment allocation space and will be using the Securities360 solution from FIS as it attains self-clearing status. Previously, the firm introduced accounts through a correspondent clearing firm for about two decades and had no need for… Read More >>
Meet the New Czar of Wall Street Regulation
Until recently, Congressman Jeb Hensarling, a Republican from Texas, was not that well known outside the beltway in Washington, D.C., and the hallways of Wall Street firms. But that is rapidly changing. Given the GOP’s control of the federal government, Hensarling may well become the sworn enemy of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the divisive Democrat… Read More >>
Regs, DLT & Emerging Markets to Reshape Securities Industry
Like scaffolding on a bank building, the securities industry is getting a make-over via the forces of regulation, new technologies and a reinvigorated emerging markets sector, according to the findings of Deutsche Bank and FT Remark, the research arm of the Financial Times, which conducted a survey of 200 financial services industry participants. In particular,… Read More >>
Credit Suisse, Ipreo, Symbiont, R3 Finish First Step for Syndicated Loan Blockchain
Blockchain Proof of Concept Effort Will Go On Credit Suisse, Ipreo, Symbiont and R3 have completed the successful initial stage of a project to demonstrate how blockchain technology can be used to improve the syndicated loan market, officials say. The proof of concept will continue throughout the year and will includes participation from agent banks,… Read More >>
Glass-Steagall May Survive the U.S. Presidential Race
The major U.S. political party conventions to nominate Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for president have been nothing if not colorful. Yet hidden among the balloons and confetti is the news that both political parties have more or less endorsed a return to the Glass-Steagall provision separating commercial and investment banking. Our first stop is… Read More >>
CFTC Blesses DTCC-SWIFT LEI Utility for Another Year
CFTC Hopes Global LEI System to Be More Operational in a Year The legal entity identifier (LEI) utility operated by the DTCC and SWIFT can continue for another year in the hope that the global LEI system will become fully operational in that time, according to the CFTC, which just issued an order extending the… Read More >>
Even the GOP Worries about TBTF
It only took six years but the Republicans have finally issued a response to the much-maligned Dodd-Frank Act, and there was a disturbingly familiar refrain amid the rants of the Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling, who is the proponent of the GOP alternative. To recap, moving from the… Read More >>
FSB’s Capital Requirements Target ‘Too Big to Fail’
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the six-year-old international body created in response to the Great Recession, has issued requirements intended to keep “systemically important” banks solvent particularly during crisis in an effort to prevent firms that are “too big to fail” and have to be bailed out via government funds. The financial requirements for banks… Read More >>
