The banking system is under stress on multiple fronts. Stress from the pandemic. Stress from a defeated presidential candidate and his coterie of enablers, denying the results of the recent election, fomenting rancor and unrest and deepening the country’s ideological divide, all the while insisting that “we are rounding the turn,” even as coronavirus cases… Read More >>
CFTC Offers a Rewards System for Cooperation
The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement (DOE) is spelling out what it means when it says that a firm has been cooperative via an enforcement investigation. The goal is to let the public get a better view into how a firm maximized cooperation and minimized painful penalties. The clarity comes from a new guidance that the… Read More >>
Firms Should Fund Ops Despite Fee Woes: Q&A
(FTF News recently got time to talk with David Campbell, vice president, strategy and business development — message automation for Broadridge Financial Solutions, about the company’s win via the 2020 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. The systems and services provider to Wall Street firms got the most votes to win the honor of Best RegTech… Read More >>
CRM Systems Are a Necessity Now: Q&A
(Client relationship management (CRM) systems have become a necessity as more financial services firms continue to function with staff and clients working remotely due to the pandemic-induced office closings. So says Jiro Okochi, president of Tier1 Financial Solutions, whose offerings serve firms in the capital markets and banking arenas. The pandemic conditions underscore the need… Read More >>
Why Did the Tokyo Stock Exchange Halt Trading?
In a bid to honor the fading art of the follow-up story, I have been rooting around to find out what has happened to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) since its systems outage earlier this month. To remind you, the TSE had an unprecedented halt to trading for a full day on Oct. 1, but… Read More >>
Morgan Stanley Buys Eaton Vance & E*TRADE
Amid a lot of conflicting news stories, Morgan Stanley recently announced that it wants to acquire the wealth and investment management firm, Eaton Vance Corp., and that it closed its acquisition of online, discount brokerage E*TRADE Financial Corp. — signs that Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street giants are trending toward safer waters than the… Read More >>
Paper Security Certificates Must Go: DTCC
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. (DTCC), a major post-trade infrastructure, systems, and services provider, is on a mission to convince the U.S. securities industry to get rid of paper-based, physical securities and replace them with electronic records. The proper term for the effort is dematerialization, which the DTCC says is an essential transition that… Read More >>
FinCEN Moves to Overhaul AML Practices
Changes are coming to banks’ the anti-money laundering practices and procedures. The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has unveiled an early look at those proposed prospective changes in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), soliciting public comment on pending regulatory amendments under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). The FinCEN’s proposal is likely… Read More >>
Ops Spends Too Much Time On Exceptions: Q&A
(Todd Sloan, business development, senior vice president, Electra Information Systems, took time out of his schedule to give FTF News a progress report on Electra Information Systems. The provider of reconciliation and other post-trade solutions, Electra is the winner of the 2020 FTF News Technology Innovation award for “Best Reconciliation Solution” for the fifth consecutive… Read More >>
Black Diamond Upgrades Links to Schwab’s Custodial Platform
SS&C Advent’s Black Diamond Wealth Platform is offering more digital access to the Schwab Advisor Center custodial platform via IT integration links that help end-users eliminate paper-based processes, save time, improve accuracy, and move faster toward digitizing their workflows, officials say. Schwab and SS&C’s Advent have been serving mutual clients “for more than 30 years,”… Read More >>
