4458 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
1st February will be remembered for many things including the end of the Cold War in 1992 and The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” becoming number one on the US charts in 1964 which many feel was the beginning of a music revolution. 1st February 2014 adds to the roll call of major historical events with the end date for SEPA (Single Euro Payment...
11 February 2013 /payments /regulation
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
Under FATCA rules, every foreign financial institution (FFI) must identify and classify all its clients with US indicia, but also do the same for all parties to financial transactions, including other FFIs and non-financial foreign entities (NFFEs). The challenge here lies in the complexity of the classification that needs to be carried out to ens...
11 February 2013 /regulation /wholesale Financial Services Regulation
Despite the growth of automated, electronic trading – whether high-speed or algorithmic or plain vanilla – voice trading is still a key element of markets in most asset classes, and in particular where trades need to be negotiated. We’d all expect firms to keep archives of all electronic transactions, as with all of their computer data. But what...
06 February 2013 /regulation
Even with the newly announced December 28th mandates by the Mexico SAT, there is still quite a bit of confusion in the marketplace. If you run a Shared Services environment or if you are in charge tax compliance or account payables, here are four issues you or your service provider should be able to answer. How will you deal with the inbound XML...
05 February 2013 /regulation Electronic invoicing
The global financial crisis drew attention to the serious risk that the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market presented to the broader economy. Following the financial crisis, regulators across the world made concerted efforts to improve the transparency and risks associated with the OTC derivatives market. The challenge has been to balance t...
01 February 2013 /regulation
David Csiki Managing Director at INDATA
A recent survey from a buy-side consulting firm revealed that investment management firms are as focused on client initiatives as they are on upcoming regulatory change. This make complete sense as, in fact, the two go hand in hand. Increased transparency is a byproduct of improving a firm’s regulatory and compliance capabilities. That’s where...
31 January 2013 /regulation
Michel Barnier, the EU commissioner heading up regulatory reform of European banks, has this week signalled that Brussels is set to think twice on ringfencing. Apparently, EU officials are working on a “precise impact analysis” of the Liikanen report. The principle recommendation of the report is that banks’ trading activities should be tightly cor...
Alistair Kelman barrister and forensic computing expert at Self employed
In October 2011 amid a blaze of publicity H.P., a company which mainly produces hardware and devices like inkjet and laser printers, announced it had agreed to pay $11.1 bn for Autonomy, a UK company that produced sophisticated software. Dr Mike Lynch the CEO of Autonomy, said the deal had opened a “fascinating new chapter” for his company as part...
31 January 2013 /security /regulation
What a difference a week makes! Since the announcement of the final regulations, it seems that every financial institution has just hit the accelerator button on their FATCA programmes. As a result, we’ve been powering through presentations and demonstrations on how our FATCA solutions work in practice. As part of this, I’ve been giving more tho
28 January 2013 /regulation /wholesale
Great article in FundFire assessing the state of compliance and employment opportunities for those with compliance experience. Among the key points made are that compliance is more important than ever and the fact that, with Dodd-Frank, many of the rules have yet to be written, let alone implemented, for asset management firms. The author also su...
22 January 2013 /regulation
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