Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Given the extreme market volatility and disruptions to the economy caused by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, asset managers using factor-based investment strategies have seen their risk exposures shift in unexpected ways. At the same time, factor investing has grown as an approach to screening stocks based on the attributes that drive risk and...
14 May 2020 /regulation /markets Hedge Fund Technology
Alessio Balduini CEO at Crif Business Solutions
The emergence of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China last December began a prolonged assault on the most important areas of our lives – our health and our financial wellbeing. Both are intrinsically linked, as we appreciate all too well these days having to endure social isolation as we start to make plans for the transition and recovery periods. Health serv...
07 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Digital Banking Trends
Brittany Garland Executive Director at IHS Markit
In the past, onboarding has been overlooked and undervalued, but sell-side organizations are recognizing that the process is critical to their ability to compete for and retain clients. For both the buy sides and sell sides, onboarding has remained a manual, ad hoc process. While other operational areas have benefited from next-generation technolo...
05 May 2020 /regulation Operational Risk Management
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
Shareholding disclosure, the requirement to report holdings in publicly traded companies to regulatory agencies, has been a regulatory obligation for decades. But like most regulatory obligations, firms try to manage the burden with manpower first. So, between OMS reports and excel spreadsheets, compliance officers try their best to determine what...
04 May 2020 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Thinning margins. Growing competition. Tougher regulations. A volatile global political landscape. Higher transactional volumes. Greater transactional complexity. There is no lack of reasons why onboarding has become an increasingly challenging and time-consuming process for asset managers. However, there are steps onboarding teams can do to reg...
30 April 2020 /regulation Financial Risk Management
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
In response to a call last year October by the G20 to examine regulatory issues raised by so-called global stable coin arrangements and to advise on multilateral responses ‘as appropriate’, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) recently published ten high-level recommendations for consultation for effective regulatory and supervisory treatment of st...
30 April 2020 /regulation /crypto Blockchain Observations
Anne Plested Regulation at ION Markets
The Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) recently advised ESMA to promote wider adoption of the Market Model Typology (MMT) post-trade data standards. The SMSG, which facilitates consultation between ESMA, its Board of Supervisors, and stakeholders, is encouraging a wider use of MMT to address MiFIR transparency. The MMT initiative is ...
29 April 2020 /regulation /markets MiFID
Retired Member
Around this time last week, one of the main global-oil-price benchmarks, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) exchange-traded future, traded below zero as the contract for May settlement approached expiry on Monday. This meant that sellers of the contract on that final day of trading were being forced into paying buyers to offload their positions, ra...
28 April 2020 /regulation /markets Capital Markets Technology
Peter Bannister SVP Governance, Risk and Compliance at MetricStream
In just a matter of weeks, the outbreak of COVID-19 took the world by surprise and upended our economies, businesses, and way of life. In response to the crisis, we have seen companies quickly action business continuity plans and transition to working remotely following the strict lockdown measures imposed by many governments. Over the years, the ...
28 April 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Operational Risk Management
Steve D'Souza Business Development at Iress
When talking to our clients at the moment they fall into two camps- one for whom the dispersion of staff to a home office environment was a long way down the scenarios on their BCP, and therefore they are having to revamp their world to adapt to the dispersed workforce, and those that see this as an opportunity to “go digital”. I shall return to ...
28 April 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Trends in Financial Services
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