Good governance is a watchword of today’s financial services industry. But are the new regulations and requirements enough to restore trust? The public’s trust in the industry “languishes at about the 24 percent level, with many expressing continued concerns regarding both excessive compensation and a lack of integrity among top corporate managers,” SEC Commissioner Luis… Read More >>
Deutsche Bank Fills Top Compliance Posts
Nadine Faruque will join Deutsche Bank as global head of compliance and member of the group executive committee on December 1, according to Deutsche Bank officials. Faruque is the general counsel and group compliance officer at UniCredit SpA and holds the group title of senior executive vice president. She also serves as member of the… Read More >>
Is the Fed Too Cozy with the Big Banks?
The secret recordings of Carmen Segarra, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner stationed at Goldman Sachs, have caused a quite stir since they were aired last week in a segment on the popular podcast “This American Life.” The tapes not only allege wrongdoings at Goldman, but also instances of the Fed, the firm’s primary supervisor, handling the… Read More >>
Financial Technologies Forum to Ring NASDAQ Bell
Subscribers to FTF News and attendees of FTF’s events already know the company has its finger on the pulse of the post-trade processing realm of securities trading. But tomorrow morning the founder and CEO of FTF will literally take the markets by the hand as Maureen Lowe rings the NASDAQ opening bell. On Thursday, Sept…. Read More >>
Billion-Dollar Settlements Sting A-List Banks and Investors
The best known aphorism attributed to the late U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen, the honey-voiced Republican Minority Leader in the LBJ era, is “a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” One wonders what Dirksen would make of the multi-billion-dollar settlements that Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and other giant banks… Read More >>
FinTech Incubators Bring Back Innovation
Regulatory compliance doesn’t usually make for scintillating dinner party conversation, but that’s how Adam Sodowick, founder and CEO of gamification training and data analytics vendor True Office, got his big break. He’d just started his company about a year and a half ago and was trying to figure out his next move when Sodowick bumped… Read More >>
Will Ops Cuts Follow Front Office Layoffs?
Traders on Goldman Sachs’ fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) desk are likely to be the latest victims of the post-financial crisis reality of a steep downturn in FICC trading profits, according to recent media reports. That reality has coincided with similar cuts at many of the world’s largest banks in recent years, and will… Read More >>
Omgeo Aims for a Global SSI Utility as DTCC Builds Client Data Service with A-List Firms
Omgeo & DTCC Ready ‘Global Utility’ for SSIs Post-trade solutions provider Omgeo and the DTCC are combining forces to build a repository that would effectively serve as a global utility for standing settlement instructions, intended to lower operational costs and bolster efficiency, say Omgeo and DTCC officials.SSI data such as account number, currency code, security… Read More >>
Tom Joyce Exits after Overseeing Knight-GETCO Merger
Knight Exec Departs after Merger with GETCO Is Official Earlier this month, Thomas M. Joyce left KCG Holdings, the company resulting from the merger of Knight Capital Group and GETCO, according to media reports. Joyce’s most recent post was as executive chairman, helping oversee the merger of the two firms.“With the transaction with GETCO completed,… Read More >>
Mary Schapiro Goes Private as Barclays Bolsters its Cash Management Team
Mary Schapiro Crosses the Aisle to Join Promontory Mary Schapiro, the former chairman of the SEC, has crossed the aisle to the private sector and joined consultancy Promontory Financial Group as managing director and chairman of the governance and markets practice, say officials.The Washington, D.C.-based Promontory, which offers strategy, risk management, regulatory, and compliance consulting,… Read More >>
