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Bank Technology News
January 2005
John Adams |
Processing: BB&T Cashes In Its CHIPS For a Better Backstop By reducing the costs of entry, banks can hook up with CHIPS and have a viable backup that's less expensive than in the past.   |
Bank Systems & Technology
September 27, 2004
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Clearing and Settlement Technology can be a powerful ally for banks looking to streamline their clearing and settlement processes and mitigate settlement risk. But to effectively compete in the global arena, financial institutions will have to adopt standards and work together. |
Investment Advisor
April 2009
James J. Green |
B/D Briefing: Calm Before the Storm? A new report found that the average securities class action settlement was halved in 2008, but the authors of Securities Class Action Settlements: 2008 Review and Analysis, caution that the reported decrease doesn't constitute a trend. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Christine M. Cumming |
September 11 and the U.S. Payment System What lessons can we draw from September 11 to help us safeguard the financial system against possible future disasters? |
Bank Systems & Technology
December 1, 2006
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Corporates Want Standardized Remittance Data in Wire Transfers Businesses would be more likely to choose wire transfers for electronic payments if they were provided with more-standardized remittance information with wire payments, according to a joint study by The Clearing House Payments Company and the Federal Reserve Bank. |
Bank Technology News
August 2007
Dan Fisher |
Pay And Settle At Warp Speed The innovation of the payment system will not be in speed, but in total end-to-end processing. |
The Motley Fool
July 21, 2006
Michael Leibert |
Bank of New York Focuses on Profits Bank of New York's increasing focus on custody and securities processing resulted in strong second-quarter results. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Time Warner: Waning Vitality The long-suffering shareholders of media giant Time Warner are paying a hefty price -- $3 billion dollars in cold cash. That's the reserve set aside to settle lawsuits regarding the overstatement of revenue at AOL between 1999 and 2002. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2008
Donna Mitchell |
Auction-Rate Securities Dust Settles, But What About Small Brokerages? Observers expect red faces as regional brokerage customers are left out of the settlements and advisors better prepare for some harsh words. |
OCC Bulletin
April 8, 2003 |
Interagency White Paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen the Resilience of the U.S. Financial System Business continuity sound practices developed by the FRB, SEC, and OCC to ensure the continued functioning of critical financial services |
Wall Street & Technology
September 11, 2007
Larry Tabb |
The Boston Equity Exchange (BEX) Calls It Quits It was the first of the regional exchanges (dealer-capitalized or not) to throw in the towel. But what does this mean? Is the Boston Stock Exchange dead? Is it valueless? |
Wall Street & Technology
July 26, 2004
Paul Allen |
SIA Unfurls STP Banner Again "Yes" to straight-through processing (STP), "no" to T+1. That's the message that came out of the Securities Industry Association (SIA) as it responded last month to the recent SEC concept release on ways to improve the safety and operational efficiency of the U.S. clearance and settlement system. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2008 |
Bank of America Reaches Second Settlement To Buy Back ARS The agreement closely mirrors the firm's earlier settlement with the Massachusetts Securities Division that was announced in September, 2008. |
Registered Rep.
August 7, 2008
John Churchill |
Citi Settles With SEC and Cuomo Over ARS Failure The firm has agreed to buy back auction rate securities sold to institutional and retail investors nationwide who've been stuck with the illiquid investment vehicles since February 12, 2008. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Banks Officially Welcomed into the Brokerage World Under New SEC Rule It only took eight years, but the SEC and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System passed final rules defining how banks can act as securities brokers. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
The Upstarts There are some upstart custody/clearing firms who are winning business from the behemoths. |
OCC Bulletin
April 9, 2002 |
Risk-Based Capital A final rule permits banks to reduce the risk weight on certain claims against qualifying securities firms from 100 percent to 20 percent... |
Investment Advisor
October 2006
Savita Iyer |
Seeking Liquidity Is the life settlement business ready to take off? It depends on whether consumers are willing to accept the fact that life insurance policies can be used for purposes other than what they were originally purchased for. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 1, 2005
Maria Santos |
Fast Facts According to the Securities Industry Association's 2004 Investor Survey, nine out of 10 investors are "very" or "somewhat" satisfied with the service provided by their investment professional. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Jesse Westbrook & David Scheer |
How Big a Hit Will Goldman Take? Congress and the public expect the SEC to extract a big fine |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The SEC's Gift to You: Part 2 By giving the investing public access to information, and serving as a regulator with the power to take action to correct problems, the SEC works hard to protect investors. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Help Wanted Securities Industry employment topped the 800,000 mark in November for the first time since February 2002. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2008 |
Bank of America to Buy Its ARs Back The nation's second-largest bank by assets settled an investigation by Massachusetts regulators, agreeing to buy back $4.5 billion worth of the securities. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Thomas O. Gorman |
SEC v. Bank of America: Where to Go From Here? The SEC thought it had completed an investigation, brought an enforcement action and then settled it. |
Bank Systems & Technology
May 1, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Citi Launches White-Label Settlement Service With the launch of its Domestic Settlement Service, or DSS, Citi is aiming to eliminate much of the risk in interbank foreign exchange trades. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Merrill Lynch Settlement: Good for Merrill, Not for Investors Many say the Merrill settlement does not resolve investors' fundamental concern: the inherent conflict produced by analysts' multiple dual role of serving investors and Merrill's investment banking business. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004 |
Cutting the Pace of Cost-Cutting New numbers from the Securities Industry Association suggest that cost-reduction efforts are easing. |
U.S. Banker
April 2010
Glen Fest |
A Real Live Wire Corporate treasurers celebrate enhanced remittance data coming to B2B wires, but worry banks might be slow to change. |
OCC Bulletin
December 6, 2000 |
Risk-Based Capital The Agencies are proposing to modify the risk-based capital treatment on claims against certain securities firms. The proposal would reduce the risk weight on claims on, or guaranteed by, qualifying securities firms to 20 percent from 100 percent... |
Wall Street & Technology
November 21, 2006
Larry Tabb |
U.S. Market Position Under Attack There has been no less than a full-out assault on the U.S. position as the financial markets capital of the world. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics FINRA steps in... $80 million settlement of two class-action suits by Securities America... Whistleblower payday... |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2009
Henry et al. |
Credit Creaks into Gear With a big boost from the feds, investors again like securities backed by assets like car loans -- but it'll take years for lending to flow freely. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 26, 2004
Jim Middlemiss |
IT Challenge: Settlement The Challenge: For financial services firms, moving away from batch processing is still a challenge. The DTCC's new inventory-management system offers delivery flexibility and helps firms find efficiencies and increase automation in the settlement process. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2004
Bill Singer |
When Silence Isn't Golden Reps may not inhibit customers or other parties from providing information, documents or testimony or from cooperating otherwise with a regulator in an investigation of alleged violations, even after a settlement. |
OCC Bulletin
June 26, 2003 |
Securities Offering Disclosure Rules Reporting and disclosure requirements for National Banks with securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 |
Registered Rep.
August 3, 2004
John Churchill |
The Beginning of Reconstruction Advisors at firms involved in the settlement with the SEC are required to give clients access to research from three different independent providers. What impact will this have on investors and the reputations of advisors? |
Registered Rep.
December 10, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Securities Revenues Fall in Third Quarter Securities firms showed profits of $3.0 billion in the third quarter of 2003, a 45 percent decline from the second quarter, according to the Securities Industry Association. A significant drop in trading revenue was responsible for the profit hit. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Global Securities Markets Present Tough Challenges for Investors and Regulators The bursting of the Internet bubble, the collapse of Enron and the emerging demutualization of securities exchanges, especially in Europe, have brought the role of securities market regulators into sharper focus than before... |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Life Settlements Laid Out Understand this new marketplace before considering selling your life insurance. |
Registered Rep.
July 15, 2010
Kristen French |
Goldman Sachs Agrees To Record $550 Million Abacus Settlement The settlement, which must still be approved by the court, represents the first case brought by the S.E.C.'s new structured and new products unit. |
Registered Rep.
May 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Moves One Step Closer to Finalizing Settlement After months at the negotiating table with clients who filed arbitration and class action claims against the firm, Securities America is one step closer to getting the OK on a $150 million settlement. |
Bank Systems & Technology
July 23, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
J.P. Morgan Introduces Total Settlement A/P Tool Total Settlement is designed to help the bank's treasury clients better connect with their suppliers. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2005 |
Trade Dates vs. Settlement Dates What is the difference between "trade date" and "settlement date," and which should you use on your taxes? |
Investment Advisor
May 1, 2011
Janet Levaux |
Securities America Denies Charges of Departing Reps Anonymous sources insist advisors are leaving or planning to leave the firm |
Wall Street & Technology
February 14, 2006 |
Hybrid Outsourcing Amid shrinking margins and increasing volume, brokerages must upgrade their core back-office clearing and settlement systems to handle the growth in alternative investments such as derivatives, according to a recent report. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2003
Will Leitch |
Securities Industry Registers Slight Employment Uptick Securities firms have begun adding employees again, according to statistics from the Securities Industry Association and the Labor Dept. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 22, 2006
Larry Tabb |
Switching a Back-Office Relationship Is Very Hard For financial firms, while the front office is eminently more glamorous and lucrative, switching front-office providers is easy. Switching a clearing, custody or depository relationship, however, is very hard. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
Indie Research (A Non-Event So Far) When the Wall Street research scandal drew to its close last July, many reps wondered how it would change their lives. In addition to coughing up millions of dollars in fines, the firms agreed to new rules on how sell-side research would be conducted and presented to clients. |
