“Money makes the world go round. The world go round.” So sang Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli. But don’t take it from “Cabaret,” set in the inter-war Weimar Era, or even from Christopher Isherwood’s “The Berlin Stories,” on which the big-screen, Oscar-winning musical was based. Money has always been the siren song of Wall Street,… Read More >>
SEC Updates Filing Fee Disclosure & Payment Methods
SEC Modernizes Fee Payments U.S. financial markets regulator, the SEC is revising “most fee-bearing forms, schedules, and related rules” and requiring companies and funds to “include all required information for filing fee calculation in a structured format,” officials announced. The regulator has “adopted amendments to modernize filing fee disclosure and payment methods” that will… Read More >>
BofA Global Research Launches Coverage of Digital Assets
BofA Research Publishes Crypto Primer Bank of America reports the publication of an instruction and information book entitled “Digital Assets Primer: Only the first inning,” marking the start of the bank’s cryptocurrency research coverage. The bank’s head of global cryptocurrency and digital asset strategy, Alkesh Shah, led the primer’s publication, according to a BofA… Read More >>
Fiserv Plans N.J. Hub for 2,000 New Jobs
Berkeley Heights Is Site of New Fiserv Campus Payments and financial technology vendor Fiserv is expanding its presence in New Jersey via a new location in Berkeley Heights that will bring approximately 2,000 jobs to the area, officials say. “The planned Fiserv campus will serve as a strategic center of excellence for technology and product… Read More >>
SIFMA, ICI, DTCC Seek SEC’s Help with T+1
The major backers of the move to shorten the U.S. securities industry settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1 by 2023 are moving full speed ahead as they reach out via a letter to the SEC about potential regulatory changes. Officials from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the Investment Company Institute (ICI), and… Read More >>
$1B in Misused 1MDB Funds Returned to Malaysia
Justice Department Sends Back Misappropriated Funds U.S. Justice Department officials report that they have returned “an additional $452 million in misappropriated 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) funds to the people of Malaysia, bringing the total returned to over $1.2 billion.” The repatriation of the funds from the former 1MDB investment development fund follows a scandal in… Read More >>
NYFIX to Expand Post-Trade Services via Acquisition
Broadridge Buys Itiviti Partner Alpha Omega Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired Alpha Omega, a post-trade solutions provider that uses the FIX electronic trading protocol, a move that will expand NYFIX’s post-trade services, officials say. Alpha Omega is a longtime partner of Itiviti, which itself is the result of the 2016 combination of NYFIX and Ullink. Broadridge… Read More >>
Buy-Side Firms Want Data Science: Survey
Portfolio managers have no reason to fear data science as it cannot really replace what they do. But harnessing data in new ways could give them an unprecedented advantage, according to a survey of 300 asset management firms sponsored by custodian Northern Trust. “The business case for digital automation and the use of investment data… Read More >>
CFTC Divisions Push SEFs to Dump LIBOR
CFTC Says Firms Need to Embrace SOFR Soon The CFTC wants participants in derivatives markets and the swap execution facilities (SEFs) to remember that they could face “financial, conduct, litigation, operational, and reputational risks” if they fail to adequately prepare for “a smooth and timely” London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor) transition to the Secured Overnight… Read More >>
Cowen to Use RBC C&C for Correspondent Clearing
RBC Clearing and Custody (RBC C&C) and Cowen’s Correspondent Clearing group have signed an agreement to move a subset of Cowen’s clients to the RBC clearing platform, officials say. The Cowen agreement fits in with RBC C&C’s strategy to expand the reach of its clearing platform to broker-dealers with institutional clients, and registered investment advisors… Read More >>
