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What is FINRA 4210, and how does it impact Hedge Funds? FINRA’s Rule 4210 can be a complex and challenging regulation to navigate, with the implications of this rule extending across several dimensions, including eligibility for different margin accounts, financing arrangements, equity levels, and day-to-day management of margin calls. In

The market infrastructure community has been debating the topic of time for the last few years. How late should our markets be open? How fast should settlement be? We’ve moved on (a little) from trading latency to the concept of perpetual markets, but before we head down that route we

TabbFORUM will honor its selection of the 40 leading innovative organizations across the financial industry and capital markets on April 30 at a reception at the Tribeca Grill, New York, from 6 to 8 p.m. The TabbFORUM NOVAs acknowledge the financial industry’s ongoing commitment to technology-driven innovation — companies that

Recently, the MOVE index gauge of interest rate volatility in the U.S. Treasury market, inched into double digits, signaling lower volatility, more supportive of de-risking global fixed income. At the same time digitization of our capital markets has introduced new products, speedier trading, and operational efficiencies for trading desks, it has

DTCC Connection: In a T+1 environment, what is the deadline to have trades affirmed? Val Wotton: As per SEC Exchange Act Rule 15c6-2, Broker Dealers must ensure completion of allocations, confirmations, and affirmations with their counterparties for 100% of trades as soon as technologically practicable and no later than end