Monday, November 15, 2021

New Trends in Data Ownership

How Data Trusts Can Transform Securities Finance.

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

Certain challenges in securities finance can only be met with better data and newer data models. Market regulators now coping with investor demands for ESG-compliance will have to monitor the disclosures of regulated entities by combing through vast pools of stock loan and proxy voting data. Bank custodians and brokers, if tasked with validating the social propriety of their stock loans, will have to dive deep into customer profile data, deeper than either regulators or vendors can today access efficiently.

 

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Alarm Raised on Stock Loans for "Withholding Tax Schemes”

Findings Point to a New Role for Emerging Fintech

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

European commissioners are reviewing a study from their securities and market authority (ESMA) that includes a recommendation for new laws to combat unfair trading practices and an extended remit for National Competent Authorities (NCAs) to conduct snap audits of securities loans and transactors. Loans deemed to be suspicious would prompt an inquiry to determine penalties for unfair strategies and inappropriate beneficiaries. However, useful audit results may be doubtful based on our preliminary review that uncovered shortcomings in the proposed SFTR surveillance datasets, as well as possible flaws in the study’s basic methodology. 

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

OFR Launches Initiative to Reduce Regulatory Reporting Burden

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

In a March 16, 2017 address before the Financial Data Summit in Washington, DC, Richard Berner, Director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR), announced an initiative to identify areas of “duplication, overlap, and inefficiency in regulatory reporting.” The initiative is being undertaken in partnership with with the Financial Stability Oversight Council (and its member agencies). The goal of the project is to “improve data quality and reduce the reporting burden” faced by regulated financial firms. 

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

OFR Data Finds US Banks Still the Most Systemically Important

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

On April 13, 2016, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) published its annual systemic importance data for the world’s larges banks.  Based on data released in 2013 and 2014 by the Basel Committee, the OFR’s report examined data for the global 30 banks designated as G-SIBs, which included eight US bank holding companies.  The OFR’s data collection and analysis is particularly significant because, beginning this year, regulators will employ this systemic importance data in determining capital requirements for banks.

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

FSOC Asks for Enhanced and Regular Data Collection for Securities Lending

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

In their April 16, 2016 report, Review of Asset Management Products and Activities, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) requested that regulators make coordinated and permanent efforts to collect more data on securities lending. Noting that that current data collections do not provide regulators and policy makers with enough information to even know the size of the market for securities lending, the FSOC urged enhanced and regular data collection and reporting, as we all as interagency data sharing regarding securities lending activities.  

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