The pandemic-induced lockdown put compliance systems to the test for many financial services firms because so many employees, including those on the trading floors, were suddenly working from home and more vulnerable to attack. At the same time, the pandemic put on hold cutting-edge, emerging technologies and their usefulness for compliance as firms braced themselves… Read More >>
How TCA Can Help the Buy Side Too
(The MiFID II reforms across multiple asset classes have caused asset managers across the globe to become more aware of the exacting demands of best execution requirements and thus more aware of the importance of applying transaction cost analysis (TCA) to a trading enterprise. So says Chris Hollands, the head of North American and European… Read More >>
Key Swaps Rules Get SEC Spotlight
Amid the stampede to emerging and disruptive technologies, a few more Earthly matters must be resolved within the realm of securities operations. One of those matters is the final resolution of the SEC’s proposed rules and amendments that govern capital, margining, and segregation requirements for securities-based swaps. These guidelines are important to “security-based swap dealers… Read More >>
IT System Fragmentation Hinders Post-Trade Workflow: Q&A
(The middle and back offices of financial services firms are populated by “disparate, poorly integrated legacy systems” that are in place to manage operations, says Brian Collings, CEO for Torstone Technology, which won the Best Clearing and Settlement Solution award via the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2018. “This fragmentation hinders the post-trade workflow,… Read More >>
JPMorgan Opens Its Research to Amazon’s Alexa
We are hearing a great deal about how artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotics — applied individually or via combinations — are going to take over the world, eliminating securities industry jobs and maybe even entire professions. Yet I suspect (my Luddite impulses aside) that disruptive technologies may yield services that we hadn’t anticipated… Read More >>
