Clearwater Analytics & JPAM Connect Systems JPMorgan Asset Management (JPAM) has launched a strategic effort to integrate its Morgan Money global trading platform with a key accounting and reporting platform from Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater Analytics, officials say. Morgan Money is a multi-currency, open architecture trading and risk management system that helps customers to view… Read More >>
FINRA Expels Long Island Firm & Suspends CEO
Forget for just a moment, if you can, the $75 million Deutsche Bank will pay to settle a lawsuit brought by the alleged victims of the late-but-not-great financier Jeffrey Epstein and turn your attention to Long Island, New York. (Forget too, if you can, that George Santos, the monumentally unfit U.S. Congressman is supposed to… Read More >>
SEC Pushes New ‘Living Wills’ for Clearing Agencies
Late last week, the SEC announced that it is proposing big changes for covered clearing agencies (CCAs) that “would augment and strengthen the requirements of the rules that govern CCAs.” When translated from the legal gobbledygook, the SEC really wants better “living wills” a.k.a. “recovery and orderly wind-down plans (RWP)” for clearing agencies that may… Read More >>
FTF Unveils Winners of the 2023 FTF Awards
With nods to established players and voter enthusiasm for other providers hitting their stride, Financial Technologies Forum (FTF) has unveiled the winners of the 2023 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards competition. The 30 winners of the FTF Awards competition — now in its 12th year — are being honored for achievements during 2022. “It’s not… Read More >>
Scotiabank & HSBC Fined for Recordkeeping & Phone Woes
Using a mobile phone can get pricey if you’re not careful. That’s a lesson two banks have learned the hard way, each paying multi-million dollar penalties for alleged “recordkeeping and supervision failures for widespread use of unapproved communication methods.” The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed and settled charges against the Bank of… Read More >>
The SEC Wants More Reporting via Form PF
A regulatory change of importance got lost in the avalanche of news that we deal with every day — the SEC is adopting amendments to Form PF, the confidential reporting form launched 12 years ago for hedge funds and private equity funds. “Currently, advisers to private funds file Form PF on a quarterly or annual… Read More >>
FINRA to Tag Errant Firms as ‘Restricted’
If you’re a broker-dealer firm, you might want to mark June 1, 2023 on your calendar. That’s the enforcement start date for a new FINRA designation: Restricted. Restricted as in there’s a history of misconduct allegations against the firm. And restricted because the firm presents a “high degree of risk to the investing public.” So… Read More >>
Mizuho Capital Markets Settles CFTC Case for $6.8M
Mizuho Capital Markets (MCM) will pay more than $6.8 million to settle allegations brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that the swap dealer mishandled key foreign exchange (FX) forward transactions and put its clients at a disadvantage, officials say. The CFTC order settles charges against the New York-based bank holding company and will… Read More >>
Coinbase Sues SEC for Crypto Clarity
A big cryptography firm is suing a big government regulator. It may be a pivotal moment in the sometimes fraught relationship between crypto and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, says that the crypto exchange is taking “another formal step to seek regulatory clarity from SEC for the crypto… Read More >>
Barclays Capital Fined $2.5M via LOPR Reporting Case
Barclays Capital Inc., a member of FINRA, the broker-dealer industry’s self-regulatory authority since 2007, has agreed to a censure and a $2.5 million fine for allegedly failing to report, or inaccurately reporting, over-the-counter (OTC) options positions to the Large Options Positions Reporting (LOPR) system. That alleged reporting hiccup happened approximately 4.3 million times from January… Read More >>
