Assessing the Impact of the Volcker Rule’s Covered Funds Provision on Wall Street

The rationale that drove regulators to pass the Volcker Rule is clear, but the interpretation and implementation of the rule by financial institutions is incredibly complex.  A great deal of compliance and legal oversight is now required to perform some of the most basic and essential banking functions. Monticello takes a look at some of the intended - and unintended - impacts of this provision.

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Life on Wall Street After Dodd-Frank

July 2015 marked five years since President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank bill into law.  We would like to acknowledge the anniversary by taking an objective look into the impacts of the mandate forged in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis in an effort to reform the financial services industry.  Here, we outline the major objectives of Dodd-Frank and some of its impact to date, as well as highlight how MCG can help your firm fine-tune its strategy to meet regulatory requirements.

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A Monticello Consulting Case Study for Improving Data Quality, a Regulatory Reporting Mandate

For over three years, Monticello Consulting has been actively engaged in the swaps industry, partnering with our swap dealer clients to remediate data quality issues and to improve the acknowledgement rates for the trades associated with real-time reporting. See how we helped one client build a suite of tactical tools to solve these issues.

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Dodd-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.

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