Finextra: Trading Controls – Lessons to be Learned from WhatsApp Fines?

By: Craig Butterworth

 

As I spend my days meeting with clients, chatting with partners and speaking at conferences, I’ve noticed a considerable shift in attitudes towards pre-trade controls. There is a tacit acknowledgement that regulators are preparing to crack down in this area. In effect, regulators, led by the UK’s PRA (and soon to be followed by the Fed and ECB), want to see more systematic evidencing of preventative controls.

 

Firms need to be able to evidence effective controls that ensure a trader can only deal in permitted products with permitted clients via permitted legal entities. While establishing preventative controls for electronic trading flow is relatively easily dealt with by implementing a high-performing decision engine into the RFQ flow, the challenge remains of how to address voice trades.

 

Read more in Finextra.

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