Clearing and Custodial Firms
Read up on clearing and custodial firms serving RIAs and others in the wealth management arena.
Symbiotic Relationships
By Kate McBrideWhen broker/dealers select a clearing firm to partner with, it pays to be choosy. This is one of the most critical relationships that any broker/dealer...
November 14, 2005
Refco's Lessons Learned?CHICAGO (HedgeWorld.com)--Picking through the rubble of the Refco meltdown has turned up some positives, chief among them the degree to which communication among clearing firms, exchanges and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic kept the financial chicanery involving Refco's books from destroying the firm's regulated futures commission merchant and...
January 01, 2005
Acquisitive FidelityConsolidation in the clearing business continues apace. As Investment Advisor went to press, National Financial, Fidelity Investments' clearing arm, announced on Dec. 16 that it...
October 13, 2004
Preparing For The UnthinkableNU Online News Service, Oct. 13, 2004, 4:32 p.m. EDTOfficials from a company that helps keep the world financial system running will participate in ...
May 10, 2004
Proposed Global Clearing Link Open for CommentWASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission requested public comment on a request from The Clearing Corp., Chicago, that it be permitted the first stage of...
April 28, 2004
DTCC Names CFONU Online News Service, April 28, 2004, 2:28 p.m. EDT -- The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., New York, has promoted Ellen Fine Levine ...
July 21, 2003
Reactions to CBOT/CME Common ClearingCHICAGO (HedgeWorld.com)--Despite concerns over the very brief comment period and arguments over the anti-competitive effects of one aspect of the new linkage, the Commodity Futures...
July 01, 2003
Moran's Subcommittee Discusses the Future of FuturWASHINGTON (HedgeWorld.com)--Rep. Jerry Moran, (R-Kan.), chairman of the subcommittee on general farm commodities and risk management, Agriculture Committee, presided over a hearing on the issues...