Officials from Key Firms Join Digital Assets Subcommittee The CFTC recently announced that its Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee will have co-chairs from BNY Mellon and Franklin Templeton. Caroline Butler, global head of digital assets at BNY Mellon, and Sandy Kaul, senior vice president, head of digital and industry advisory services at Franklin Templeton, will serve… Read More >>
FCA Mulls Ban on Crypto-Based Instruments
U.K. regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is causing a stir with its consideration of a ban on the sale of derivatives and exchange traded notes (ETNs) that are tied to certain types of crypto-assets. FCA officials say that they are considering new rules to “address harm to retail consumers” via the sale of these… Read More >>
Regulators Brace for Impacts of a Hard Brexit
The Brexit saga continues as the government of the United Kingdom debates how to create either a clear, negotiated path away from the European Union or leave via a much more risky, unnegotiated “hard exit.” As of this Monday night, April 1, the U.K. parliament was still mulling its options. The only certainty is that… Read More >>
Goldman Sachs Fined $45M via MiFID Reporting Case
A U.K. regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has settled a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) case against Goldman Sachs International (GSI), and has fined the firm £34,344,700 ($44,815,175) for 220-plus million erroneous transaction reports between November 2007 and March 2017. The FCA explains that its rules on transaction reporting emanate from the E.U.’s… Read More >>
UBS Fined $36M for MiFID I Reporting Errors
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined UBS £27.6 million ($36,524,840.93) on charges that the Swiss financial services giant had transaction reporting failures when it attempted to comply with now-legacy MiFID I requirements. The fine covers nine-and-a-half years of alleged failings “relating to 135.8 million transaction reports between November 2007 and May 2017,” according… Read More >>
Standard Chartered Braces for Probes of FX Practices
Standard Chartered Bank reports that it has received a so-called “decision notice” from the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The decision notice imposes a penalty of £102,163,200 ($136.1 million) (net of a 30 percent early settlement discount) on the bank group. That penalty is related to the group’s “historical… Read More >>
CFTC & U.K.’s FCA Join Forces on FinTech Push
CFTC and FCA Sign Agreement to Collaborate The U.S. CFTC and the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) report the signing of an agreement that “commits the regulators to collaborating and supporting innovative firms through each other’s fintech initiatives” — LabCFTC in the U.S. and FCA Innovate in Great Britain. The heads of both regulators saluted… Read More >>
Electra Fills New Post for Data Services
New SVP to Oversee Customer Interactions Electra Information Systems, a reconciliation solutions and accounting data aggregation services vendor, has appointed Jennifer McMackin to the newly created role of senior vice president, data services, officials say. McMackin’s has more than 15 years of industry experience from positions at Mizuho America and Axiom Investors, officials say. “Her… Read More >>
MiFID II Dawns Amid Panic & Yawns
MiFID II came in with a whimper on January 3, 2018 instead of a bang thanks to the painstaking groundwork laid by banks and brokers. However, not everyone was as prepared as they should have been. According to a new report by voice recording specialists Red Box Recorders, 73 percent of IT Data Management (ITDM)… Read More >>
FCA Greenlights More OTFs, MTFs in Time for MiFID II
BGC, Integral Get FCA Approvals Just in time for the onset of MiFID II, the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has authorized that BGC Brokers LP, GFI Brokers Ltd., GFI Securities Ltd. can each operate an organized trading facility (OTF), and Sunrise Brokers can operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF) via GFI Brokers Ltd. and… Read More >>
