(With LIBOR for new contracts ending Dec. 31, 2021, and LIBOR’s usage finally over as of June 30, 2023, a new era for risk-free reference rates is underway. Financial services firms are transitioning to replacements such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), and they are grappling with the post-LIBOR impacts upon their trading, risk,… Read More >>
Aegis Capital Settles Charges of Excessive Trading
FINRA, the financial services industry’s self-regulatory authority, has levied fines and a sanction against Aegis Capital Corp. and two of its supervisors, Joseph Giordano and Roberto Birardi. Aegis Capital neither admits nor denies the FINRA accusations. However, Aegis will pay $1.7 million in restitution to 68 customers “whose accounts were potentially excessively and unsuitably traded… Read More >>
Cris Conde to Advise Duco CEO
Conde to Also Advise Duco Board Former president and CEO of SunGard Cristóbal Conde has joined Duco, which describes itself as a self-service data normalization and reconciliation services provider, as an advisor to Duco CEO Christian Nentwich and to the board of directors, officials say. FIS Global (Fidelity National Information Services Inc.) acquired SunGard in… Read More >>
Promotion in SEC’s Office of Market Supervision
The SEC has promoted John C. Roeser to the post of associate director and deputy head of the office of market supervision in its division of trading and markets, officials say. Roeser, who assumed the new post immediately, has been an assistant director in the office of market supervision since 2005 and played a key… Read More >>