Monticello Consulting conducted a preliminary SEF strategy and impact assessments for a major bank’s credit, rates, foreign exchange, commodities, and equities trading operations. This effort assisted our client in formulating a strategy for adapting existing trading platforms to comply with the new SEF rules for executing swap trades on these new centralized order books.
Read MoreRegulatory Reporting Testing Governance
Monticello’s implementation of a testing governance solution helped our client meet new regulatory reporting requirements on time in the face of short deadlines.
Read MoreManaging the Next Wave of Relocation Strategies-The Path to Long-Term Growth & Survival
In the last few years investment firms and banks have been facing anemic revenues and more stringent regulations cutting into trading revenues. In response to this economic climate, leveraging business transformation programmes such as Process Efficiencies and Relocation Strategies (near-shoring and off-shoring) has become a key component in the long-term growth and survival of organizations. MCG shares how we helped a client understand the costs and benefits of these strategies and how to effectively implement them.
Read MoreDodd-Frank Reporting: Live Positions Migration for Money Center Bank
As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform legislation, our client was required to backload live position data to the DTCC's Global Trade Repository (GTR) across several asset classes. Monticello Consulting Group helped them assemble a team to coordinate and execute the backload of all live positions from various front office systems into an internal rules validation system, and further into the industry-wide trade repository. The team developed a custom process to test, execute, and validate end-to-end results of this effort for two successive compliance dates.
Read MoreSwaps Regulation
As the rules pertaining to swap dealer registration under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (“Dodd-Frank”) are now finalized, swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs) are now required to register with the SEC and/or the CFTC to continue trading on behalf of “US persons” (i.e. US-based clients). Across Wall Street, Monticello Consulting is seeing its investment banking clients undertake time-critical projects in order to make significant changes to both their business processes and technology platforms in order to comply with Dodd-Frank rules.
Read MoreInternal Model and Standardized Methods
Monticello takes a look at the Internal Model Method introduced by Basel II and its advantages and drawbacks.
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