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Greenwich Report Analyzes Challenges Facing Market Participants Trying to Maintain Compliance While Trading From Home When COVID-19 shuttered trading floors in March 2020, many buy-side...

SEC Greenlights Investment Fund Delivered in Security Tokens

Compliance Guest Post - July 17, 2020

On July 6, 2020, asset management firm Arca announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted it approval under the Investment Company...

Greenwich: Investors Fear Negative Impact from a Financial Transaction Tax

Compliance Scott Porter - July 17, 2020

72% of market participants expect harm to retail investors and trading; 65% fear negative impact on personal portfolios; 70% anticipate reduction in their firm’s...

SIX Launches Fully Delegated SFTR Reporting for Swiss Repo Market

Compliance Scott Porter - July 14, 2020

Complex reporting obligations resulting from the Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR) can be fully delegated to the Swiss Stock Exchange. The Collateral Cockpit™, launched...

Basel Committee Reports on Basel III Implementation Progress

Compliance Scott Porter - July 7, 2020

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued the Eighteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework. Among the highlights: Report sets out...

ISDA, ASIFMA, FIA and GFXD Publish EU Benchmarks Regulation Review Recommendations

Compliance Scott Porter - June 30, 2020

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA), the Futures Industry Association (FIA) and the...

Credit Risk Cited As Top Concern in Basel IV Survey

Compliance Scott Porter - June 26, 2020

There is a general consensus among bankers as to which challenges posed by the Basel III finalization reforms (commonly referred to as Basel IV)...

IOSCO Publishes Good Practices on Processes for Deference

Compliance Scott Porter - June 26, 2020

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a series of eleven good practices on processes for deference to assist regulatory authorities in...

NEWS AND VIEWS

BNP Paribas launches new predictive collateral coverage reporting solution
Asset Servicing Times | July 31, 2020

Securities and Markets Regulatory News, July 2020 #4
JD Supra | July 31, 2020

Reflections of Post-SFTR Implementation of Phases I & II
ISLA | July 31, 2020

Corporate Actions Demand on the Rise
Asset Servicing Times | July 30, 2020

Recalibrating CVA
ISDA derivatiViews | July 30, 2020

Fund managers ‘unaware’ of upcoming ESG disclosure requirements
Asset Servicing Times | July 30, 2020

T2-T2S consolidation, too, has a year added
Post Trade 360 | July 29, 2020

Securities lending is not oversupplied
Pierpoint Financial Consulting | July 29, 2020

Securities Finance – A Journey through Time
GlobalCustody.net | July 29, 2020

Have fund services executives accepted their fate?
Global Custodian | July 29, 2020

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RESEARCH

Compliance

MiFID II: The Impact So Far

Scott Porter - July 30, 2020

It has been over 30 months since the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive came into force in January 2018. The...

Compliance

Financial Firms Struggled to Maintain Regulatory Compliance Standards

Scott Porter - July 20, 2020

Greenwich Report Analyzes Challenges Facing Market Participants Trying to Maintain Compliance While Trading From Home When COVID-19 shuttered trading floors in March 2020, many buy-side...

SEMINARS

Data

XBRL Guides Regulators Building Financial Data Standards Programs

Scott Porter - July 28, 2020

XBRL confirmed this week the publication of the Taxonomy Development Handbook, a guide for regulators, industry experts, and businesses to building data...

Operations

On Demand Webinar – Survive to Thrive: Risk and Compliance

Scott Porter - June 26, 2020

How have technology priorities changed as a result of the pandemic? In the areas of financial crime compliance, cybersecurity, and operational risk, COVID-19 is having...

State Street Launches Post-Trade Transaction Cost Analysis for Equities

FinTech Scott Porter - July 29, 2020

BestX, State Street’s foreign exchange and fixed income best execution analytics platform, confirmed today that it has expanded its execution analytics software...

TASE to Launch Blockchain-Based Securities Lending Platform

FinTech Scott Porter - July 29, 2020

Platform is the First of Its Kind and Will Enable Capital Market Players Direct Lending Among All the Major Financial Instruments

SEC Greenlights Investment Fund Delivered in Security Tokens

Compliance Guest Post - July 17, 2020

On July 6, 2020, asset management firm Arca announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted it approval under the Investment Company...

AI to Speed Up M&A Due Diligence, But Data and ESG Issues Remain

Data Scott Porter - July 7, 2020

In the next five years, new technologies like artificial intelligence will transform the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) process by decreasing the time it takes to...

Broadridge: Financial Services Firms Accelerating Technology Transformation to Navigate Pandemic

FinTech Scott Porter - July 7, 2020

More than half of financial services companies plan to accelerate implementation of their next generation technology strategies, according to a new global survey of...

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CONFERENCES

Data

SEC Commissioner Lee and PwC Vice Chair Bricker to Keynote XBRL US Investor Forum 2020

Scott Porter - July 15, 2020

XBRL US has confirmed that the annual XBRL US Investor Forum 2020, Ready for Anything – Using Data in Perilous Times, will feature two...

Data

Addressing Emerging Operational Risk and Alleviating Data Blind Spots with AI Powered Risk Management | July 15

Scott Porter - June 23, 2020

Date: 15 July 2020 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET The digitalisation of financial services is in full flight, as financial institutions strive...

PUBLICATIONS

Compliance

10 Best Books for FinOps Professionals

Scott Porter - June 10, 2020

Browsing Amazon for recent books on finance and capital markets, one finds dozens – maybe hundreds – of books on investing, trading, analysis and...

FinTech

Front-to-Back: Designing and Changing Trade Processing Infrastructure

Scott Porter - March 14, 2019

by Martin Walker In this book, banking and finance expert Martin Walker opens section one with the fundamentals; explaining how capital markets firms make money,...

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TASE to Launch Blockchain-Based Securities Lending Platform

Scott Porter - July 29, 2020

Platform is the First of Its Kind and Will Enable Capital Market Players Direct Lending Among All the Major Financial Instruments

ISLA, ISDA Agree to Collaborate on Digital Initiatives

Operations Scott Porter - July 27, 2020

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) have agreed to collaborate on two key initiatives...

Pension Plans Unite for Securities Lending and Repo Trading

Securities Finance Scott Porter - July 24, 2020

Four leading pension plans, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS), and State...

SFTR Reporting Regime Sees Successful First Day

Operations Scott Porter - July 14, 2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, said it had received reports from trade repositories (TRs) indicating that the...

RISK

Operations

ISLA, ISDA Agree to Collaborate on Digital Initiatives

Scott Porter - July 27, 2020

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) have agreed to collaborate on two key initiatives...

CryptoCompare Benchmark for Crypto Exchanges to include CCP and Operational Risks

Data Scott Porter - July 14, 2020

Digital asset data specialist CryptoCompare, has updated its cryptocurrency Exchange Benchmark, revealing a new ranking of exchanges based on several criteria including counterparty, operational,...

CCPs Could Withstand a Shock, Says ESMA

Operations Scott Porter - July 13, 2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published the results of its third stress test exercise regarding Central Counterparties...

Basel Committee Reports on Basel III Implementation Progress

Compliance Scott Porter - July 7, 2020

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued the Eighteenth progress report on adoption of the Basel regulatory framework. Among the highlights: Report sets out...

DATA

Data

Managing Reference Data as Volatility Grips

Scott Porter - July 29, 2020

As equity and bond markets tumbled amid the Covid-19 volatility, structured products were actively used and intensively traded to manage the portfolios...

XBRL Guides Regulators Building Financial Data Standards Programs

Data Scott Porter - July 28, 2020

XBRL confirmed this week the publication of the Taxonomy Development Handbook, a guide for regulators, industry experts, and businesses to building data...

Addressing Uncertainties around OTC Market Data

Data Scott Porter - July 15, 2020

A diverse and competitive market structure has ensured European equity markets remain robust, according to a recently published study by the Association for Financial...

SEC Commissioner Lee and PwC Vice Chair Bricker to Keynote XBRL US Investor Forum 2020

Data Scott Porter - July 15, 2020

XBRL US has confirmed that the annual XBRL US Investor Forum 2020, Ready for Anything – Using Data in Perilous Times, will feature two...

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Report Addresses Central Counterparty Default Management

Scott Porter - June 25, 2020

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German Institutional Investors Have Become More Sustainable

Scott Porter - June 25, 2020

Compliance

10 Best Books for FinOps Professionals

Scott Porter - June 10, 2020

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Operations

WFE Calls for ‘Considered Approach’ to Treatment of CCP Equity in Resolution

Scott Porter - July 31, 2020

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for central counterparties (CCPs) and exchanges, has called for a "careful and...

Compliance

MiFID II: The Impact So Far

Scott Porter - July 30, 2020

It has been over 30 months since the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive came into force in January 2018. The...

FinTech

State Street Launches Post-Trade Transaction Cost Analysis for Equities

Scott Porter - July 29, 2020

BestX, State Street’s foreign exchange and fixed income best execution analytics platform, confirmed today that it has expanded its execution analytics software...

Data

Managing Reference Data as Volatility Grips

Scott Porter - July 29, 2020

As equity and bond markets tumbled amid the Covid-19 volatility, structured products were actively used and intensively traded to manage the portfolios...

FinTech

TASE to Launch Blockchain-Based Securities Lending Platform

Scott Porter - July 29, 2020

Platform is the First of Its Kind and Will Enable Capital Market Players Direct Lending Among All the Major Financial Instruments

Data

XBRL Guides Regulators Building Financial Data Standards Programs

Scott Porter - July 28, 2020

XBRL confirmed this week the publication of the Taxonomy Development Handbook, a guide for regulators, industry experts, and businesses to building data...

Operations

ESMA Preparing to Further Postpone CSDR Settlement Discipline

Scott Porter - July 28, 2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, confirmed today that it is working on a proposal to...

Operations

ISLA, ISDA Agree to Collaborate on Digital Initiatives

Scott Porter - July 27, 2020

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) have agreed to collaborate on two key initiatives...

Compliance

CFTC Approves Final Cross-Border Swaps Rule, Exempt SEF Amendment Order

Scott Porter - July 27, 2020

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission at its open meeting last week approved a final rule on the cross-border application of certain swap...

Securities Finance

Pension Plans Unite for Securities Lending and Repo Trading

Scott Porter - July 24, 2020

Four leading pension plans, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS), and State...

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