Although the U.K. hopes to retain as many financial services activities as possible in the wake of Brexit, big banks are making contingency plans and could shift at least 9,000 jobs out of the country, according to a tally collated from Reuters. To date, 13 major banks including Goldman Sachs, UBS, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and… Read More >>
Microsoft’s Azure Supports UBS Risk Mitigation
UBS officials are acknowledging that they are using the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service to support risk management efforts, and will use Azure technology for a wider digital transformation. The bank needs to increase the agility and scalability of its technology infrastructure, which key to the bank’s strategy, says Paul McEwen, UBS Group head of… Read More >>
Giancarlo Moves Up to Acting Chairman of CFTC
CFTC Shuffle: Aitan Goelman to Exit As expected, the CFTC designated J. Christopher Giancarlo, a current commissioner, as the acting chairman of the CFTC on January 20. At the same time, just as the Trump team took power Aitan Goelman, a key enforcement director for the futures, options and swaps regulator, announced his plans to… Read More >>
UBS Moves to Expand IB Ops in China
UBS is taking steps toward expanding its investment banking presence in mainland China and is likely to double its staffing there, including additional back office personnel. “What we can say is the following,” a spokesman for UBS tells FTF News. “UBS has been holding talks since last year [2016] with several shareholders about buying their… Read More >>
SEC: UBS Financial Services Flubbed RCN Training
UBS Financial Services will pay more than $15 million to settle SEC charges that it failed to “adequately educate and train its sales force about critical aspects of certain complex financial products it sold to retail investors,” according to SEC officials. The SEC is alleging via its order that the firm did not develop and… Read More >>
BNY, Deutsche Bank, ICAP Back UBS Digital Cash Push
BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, ICAP and Santander are throwing their support behind the Utility Settlement Coin (USC) concept from UBS and newcomer Clearmatics Technologies that could lead to digital cash-based payment and settlement operations that exploit distributed ledger technology (DLT). The USC effort is intended to result in “an asset-backed digital cash instrument implemented on… Read More >>
Major Banks to Mentor FinTech Startups in Asia
FinTech Innovation Lab to Help Eight Entrepreneurs Eight financial technology vendors with a range of new offerings including a know your customer (KYC) combination with distributed ledger technology, have been accepted into a 12-week mentorship program in the third annual FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific, officials say. Other startups participating in the lab are working on… Read More >>
Libor Convictions Give U.K. Regulator a Reprieve
The recent sentencing of four former Barclays traders over Libor has given a much needed boost to the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) whose future has been in doubt due to a mixed set of results over the last few years. Among the four men, Jay Merchant, a former trader at Barclays in New York,… Read More >>
Markit, ISDA Move to Settle EU Probe
Markit, the U.K. data provider, and the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA), an industry trade group, have offered concessions in an effort to settle a European Union antitrust investigation into possible collusion in the credit default swaps (CDS) market, according to the European Commission. The Commission is seeking feedback from interested parties on the… Read More >>
All Eyes on the Barclays Libor Trial
The outcome of the current Libor trial of five former Barclays traders in London is too difficult to forecast but lawyers expect that a guilty verdict could unleash a wave of other criminal and civil cases as well as lend support to the beleaguered Securities Fraud Office (SFO). “This case has generated a great deal… Read More >>
