- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2021-04-12T12:45:00
There are plenty of unanswered questions following the recent meltdown of family office Archegos Capital Management—and plenty of compliance lessons to be learned, writes Aaron Nicodemus.
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Bill Hwang, the founder of Archegos Capital Management, was arrested and charged with racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud for orchestrating a multibillion-dollar market manipulation scheme that resulted in the U.S. hedge fund’s collapse.
The Department of Justice has reportedly launched an investigation into the collapse of Archegos Capital Management, which cost multiple big banks billions of dollars.
New SEC Chairman Gary Gensler discussed shortening the settlement period for trades and requiring new disclosures by broker-dealers as part of testimony before Congress regarding this year’s GameStop stock surge.
A Bank of England report warned of private equity risk management deficiencies as interest rates remain stagnant, with international coordination important.
Compliance departments at financial institutions must become more involved in ensuring their firm’s operational resiliency to address emerging risks, the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said in its semi-annual risk perspective.
Compliance has been “sleeping on” artificial intelligence, two panelists discussed at Compliance Week’s Women in Compliance Summit. The profession should be positioned to lead on AI governance at the business level.
