Heavy-hitter federal regulators say new rules are coming for cryptocurrencies, the new, mostly unregulated financial sector that competes with traditional banks without offering deposit insurance, the banks’ most important protection. And cryptography has been beset by high-profile scandals that have cost some would-be crypto millionaires their entire fortunes. As well, at a time of worsening… Read More >>
Key Groups Push to Start T+1 in 2024
The goalpost for the move by U.S. equities markets from T+2 to the shorter T+1 settlement cycle has shifted from 2023 to the first half of 2024 after an outreach to the industry revealed that more time was needed to revamp and test systems, workflows, and operations to facilitate this fundamental change to securities transaction processing…. Read More >>
Wall Street’s New Cop Jolts Enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports that it filed 434 new enforcement actions in fiscal year 2021. The SEC’s whistleblower program was “critical to these efforts and had a record-breaking year,” a commission statement notes. FY 2021 “marked the highest number of awards to both the number of individuals and in dollar amounts awarded,”… Read More >>
CloudMargin & Margin Tonic to Launch AANA Service
Collaboration to Target Ongoing UMR Calculations CloudMargin, a collateral and margin management vendor, and Margin Tonic, a service provider for collateral and post-trade operations, are working together to launch “a global Average Aggregated Notional Amount (AANA) calculation service” that trading firms can use to navigate the phases of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) regulatory reforms…. Read More >>
FICC & SEC Settle Backtesting Case for $8M
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission reports that Fixed Income Clearing Corp. (FICC), a clearing agency that is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC), will pay an $8 million penalty in a settlement of the commission’s charges that it “failed to have adequate risk management policies” within its… Read More >>
Credit Suisse Reaches $475M Settlement of Bond Scandal
Mozambique may seem far from Wall Street, but of course it’s not. Not in this interconnected world. And that means that a bond scandal in far-away Mozambique has attracted the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Department of Justice, and the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority. The SEC, the DoJ, and… Read More >>
ICE Sells Stake in Euroclear for $825M
Silver Lake Buys ICE’s 9.85 Percent Stake American private equity firm Silver Lake likes Euroclear Holding’s growth path and has purchased Intercontinental Exchange’s 9.85 percent stake in Euroclear for €709 million ($824.8 million), officials say. Officials at ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), say the past investment in Euroclear has been… Read More >>
SEC Updates Filing Fee Disclosure & Payment Methods
SEC Modernizes Fee Payments U.S. financial markets regulator, the SEC is revising “most fee-bearing forms, schedules, and related rules” and requiring companies and funds to “include all required information for filing fee calculation in a structured format,” officials announced. The regulator has “adopted amendments to modernize filing fee disclosure and payment methods” that will… Read More >>
Justice Department, SEC Focus on Stopping Crypto Crime
Two powerful extensions of the U.S. federal government – the Department of Justice and the SEC – are gearing up to counter the fraud, scams, and abuse that are the dark side of cryptocurrencies and emerging digital assets. Lisa O. Monaco, deputy Attorney General for Justice, launched the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) this week… Read More >>
RBC Capital Markets Resolves Deal-Flipping Charges
The Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered RBC Capital Markets to pay “more than $800,000 to resolve charges that it engaged in unfair dealing in municipal bond offerings.” While RBC Capital Markets neither admits nor denies the SEC allegations, it has agreed to pay the financial penalty and be censured. In a related settlement, two… Read More >>
