As North American financial markets brace for the impending transition to a T+1 settlement cycle next week, concerns are mounting over the reliance on manual post-trade processes, which could lead to unwelcome settlement failures and increased costs. Firms lacking adequate technological infrastructure are now in a frantic last-minute scramble to automate manual post-trade processes, with… Read More >>
NYSE Council to Explore A.I. & Other Technologies
The New York Stock Exchange has launched the NYSE Tech Council, a group of senior technology leaders that will explore best practices for artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and other cutting-edge technologies. “The council will be comprised of chief technology officers, chief information officers and other C-suite technology leaders from NYSE-listed companies,” according to the announcement. “With… Read More >>
Should the GAO Audit the CFTC?
Caroline D. Pham, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner, started the Open Meeting on May 10 with a bang — she wants the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the CFTC because she thinks the regulator has expanded its jurisdiction without a proper mandate, and, as a consequence, has strayed far from its… Read More >>
T+1 is Stealing the Spotlight from Securities Lending
(Editor’s note: This past October, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Rule 10c-1a in an effort to increase the “transparency and efficiency of the securities lending market,” according to the SEC. The new rule required the reporting of “specified information about securities loans to a registered national securities association (RNSA)” by 2026. The new rule… Read More >>
Corlytics Buys RegTech Platform from Deloitte U.K.
Corlytics hopes to bolster its industry standing as a regulatory compliance provider via the acquisition of a digital, regulatory technology platform and associated staff members from Deloitte U.K. The Deloitte U.K. news follows the announcement last month that private equity firm Verdane made a majority stake investment in Corlyitcs, a transaction managed by investment bank… Read More >>
Why Manual Sanctions Screening Misses the Mark
(Too many compliance teams at financial services firms rely on spreadsheets and manual processes or internally developed systems to sift through securities data to find sanction risks. But these systems can miss the mark in monitoring and tracking exposures across entities, say officials at Innovative Systems, Inc., the maker of the FinScan offerings for anti-money… Read More >>
RIAs & ERAs Face New Regulatory Obligations
Registered investment advisers (RIAs) and exempt reporting advisers (ERAs) may have to develop customer identification programs (CIPs) to prevent “illicit finance activity” involving their customers because of a joint effort by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The SEC and FinCEN on May… Read More >>
Cornerstone FTM Goes Live With High-Velocity Platform
Hedge fund Cornerstone FTM has gone live with “a cutting-edge” investment platform that leverages the portfolio support, custody, and fund administration services of Northern Trust and the infrastructure and data management offerings of Equity Data Science (EDS), a business partner of Northern Trust. The collaboration between Northern Trust and EDS, which provides the real-time quantitative… Read More >>
Finastra Taps OpenFin to Bolster Kondor
Finastra, a financial software applications and marketplaces provider, is collaborating with OpenFin to improve the user experience of Finastra Kondor, a well-established bank treasury management system, officials say. The OpenFin technology is intended to strengthen Kondor “with enhanced workspaces and workflows to drive greater efficiencies and streamline the decision-making process for banks,” according to the… Read More >>
T+1 Self-Affirmation Rates Below Expectations
The DTCC is urging investment managers and custodians to collaborate on technology and automation solutions after its latest statistics on the industry’s affirmation progress revealed a disparity in affirmation rates between those using manual processes and those utilizing centralized matching tools. With the implementation of a T+1 settlement cycle in the U.S. less than a… Read More >>
