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Originally published by Markets Media Compliance in Focus is a content series on regulatory topics for financial markets and the challenges compliance officers face in addressing surveillance and monitoring. Compliance in Focus is produced in collaboration with Eventus.   Among the bevy of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory proposals issued in December 2022, some demand more prominence […]

By Sofia Österberg, Director of Client Success, Eventus   In their latest “Dear CEO” letter, the FCA highlighted a series of risks that wholesale brokers must be focused on, with some brokers likely requiring immediate attention and improvement in a number of areas. Despite progress in governance and compliance controls at larger firms, the FCA

By Martina Rejsjo, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus   The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently filed a civil enforcement lawsuit against an individual for an alleged fraudulent scheme to inflate the value of a private hedge fund by manipulating the price of the fund’s single largest holding, a thinly-traded equity.  The individual was the

Originally published by Finextra By: Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets, Eventus   The year 2022 proved what many of us already know: Compliance issues can sink your business or help you survive in volatile, uncertain markets. Regulatory technology, or regtech, is how firms solve the riddle of complying with complex rules in

Originally published by Markets Media By: Jeff Bolke, Chief Revenue Officer, Eventus   What was the highlight of 2022? The highlight is our continued growth, as clients and prospects face ever-mounting regulatory and compliance challenges and the need to do more with less. Markets have been volatile and uncertain. So firms are relying on us

By: Chris Waitz, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus   The CFTC recently released its annual report on enforcement results. The report summarizes the enforcement action taken over the previous year and provides insight into the areas of focus for the agency. This year’s report demonstrates the CFTC’s continued commitment to protecting customers and ensuring market

By: Joseph Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus   FINRA recently alerted members to an emerging threat: “pump-and-dump-like” schemes against thinly-traded initial public offerings (IPOs). The behavior that FINRA, NASDAQ, and NYSE have all observed includes a bad actor manipulating the price of a small-cap IPO to inflate the price (pump) and then profit

Originally published by The TRADE   New study from Acuiti, commissioned by Eventus, found increased regulatory requirements and market volatility to be the main drivers of heightened complexity in trade surveillance. A new study from Acuiti has found increasing investment in automation to combat pressure on manual processes. This has been found to be resulting

London / New York / Singapore – 29 November 2022: The increasing complexity of trade surveillance requirements, driven by regulatory demands and exacerbated by volatility, is putting pressure on manual processes and driving investment in automation, a new study by Acuiti has found.  Acuiti’s latest report — “Getting to the risk quicker: How trade surveillance

Originally published by FinTech Global   ESMA’s recent MAR Review acknowledged there were varying views on pre-hedging. Eventus has explored whether pre-hedging counts as market manipulation. As a follow-up to its Review, the regulator is now analysing the practices of pre-hedging and will issue a call for evidence. Eventus stated that during the review, ESMA alerted market