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Today’s rapidly changing financial markets have prompted a growing number of asset managers to outsource part of their trading, and in some instances all of it. Skyrocketing interest rates still linger as managers eagerly explore new asset classes and investment regions. Plus, there are looming technology challenges, including the invasion

FinCEN, short for Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, has resurrected its longstanding desire for many investment advisers to fall under the same policies as banks and broker-dealers when it comes to complying with anti-money laundering regulations. So far, investment advisers have been required to follow anti-fraud regulations and to avoid doing

DORA – Bolstering and Harmonising Operational Resilience Across the EU The EU’s DORA is inevitable and will have rippling effects beyond the union. It supersedes previous industry-specific operational resilience guidelines and overcomes national disparities, harmonising guidelines for key focus areas across the entire financial industry value chain to establish a

This week, Capitol Account had some big news of our own: Ryan Tracy, a longtime reporter at The Wall Street Journal, joined the newsletter. He spent 13 years at the paper earning a (well-deserved) reputation as one of the top journalists covering Washington’s oversight of business. His deep experience includes

Bitcoin is a unique and novel asset that facilitates peer to peer electronic transactions without intermediaries. It has a hard cap of 21 million and is grounded in open source technology, economics, psychology, with a cypherpunk ethos, and designed as a transparent asset and network that can be continuously verified