The Back Office - Weekly Update (6/19/23)

Welcome! This week’s news and views below:

• Achieving Greater Efficiency with Outsourced Investment Operations (ssctech.com)

• Blog: Uniformed Valuation Approach for AIF Investment Portfolios (apexgroup.com)

• Strengthening Your Core: Enhancing Back Office Processes & Managing Talent - Gen II (gen2fund.com)

• Five key things to look at when selecting a fund administrator (ocorian.com)

• SEC Charges Adviser and its Principal in Illegal Short Selling Scheme (sewkis.com)

• Credit Ratings Removed from Regulation M (friedfrank.com)

• The 1907 Limited Partnership fund structure: an unregulated alternative to the Irish LP - Intertrust Group

• SEC Enforcement Continues SPAC Crackdown as Founder Trading Profits Generate Scrutiny | Insights | Holland & Knight (hklaw.com)

• Cryptocurrencies and Risk Under the ATA | Jones Day

• Bank risk management of third-party relationships – Final interagency guidance | Davis Polk

• “When you are a hammer, the world is a nail” – SEC and PCAOB Senior Staff Signal Increased SEC and PCAOB Gatekeeper Enforcement | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

• Cabinet News & Views (cadwalader.com)

• State Taxation of Qualified Small Business Stock: Federal Tax Exclusion Not Always Replicated at State Level | WilmerHale

• SEC Spotlights Testimonials, Endorsements, and Third-Party Ratings in Latest Exam Risk Alert | ACA Group (acaglobal.com)

• New SEC Risk Alert on the Marketing Rule (vigilantllc.com)

• Investing in India? Why Mauritius is ideal for your HoldCo - IQ-EQ (iqeq.com)

• Jurisdictional Updates 6-15-2023 – CSC (cscglobal.com)

• iBank therefore I am – Apple eyes move into financial services – Global Relay Intelligence & Practice

• Treliant Takeaway…FinCEN and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Issue Warnings Related to Increased Check Fraud - Treliant

• 2023 GSR scoring finalized, report to be issued June 30 (GlobalSWF) Global SWF

• The Uncertain Future of Credit Suisse Equity Research | Institutional Investor

• CALPERS Commits $1B to Private Equity (dakota.com)

• Value is in the eye of the fund manager … err adviser … err investor … err regulator? (issgovernance.com)

• PIMCO charged by the SEC for swaps disclosure and procedures failures - The TRADE (thetradenews.com)

• SIFMA, MFA Concerned With SEC Proposal To Redefine Exchanges - Traders Magazine

• Capabilities Necessary For Evolving Operational Platforms | Blog - Everest Group (everestgrp.com)

• Managing the Impact of Asset Class Convergence » Arcesium

• Solutions Strategy Re-Defined (citisoft.com)

• Applications for APIs in Prime Brokerage (clearstreet.io)

• SEC drops 42 cases after record control failures | Blog | Global Relay

• Building vs Buying: Market Surveillance (steel-eye.com)

• Case Study: cracking a global Adversary-In-The-Middle campaign using a threat intelligence toolkit (sygnia.co)

• Prevent cybersecurity breaches and keep your data safe | Linedata

• FAQ for MOVEit Transfer Vulnerabilities and CL0P Ransomware Gang - Blog | Tenable®

• Eight common procurement risks and how to manage them (vendr.com)

• How Hedge Funds Can Improve Performance With Shadow Accounting - Indus Valley Partners (ivp.in)

• Does Your Chart of Accounts Need an Overhaul? A Guide to Better Transaction Categorization | Paro - Professional Business Finance and Accounting Solutions

Thanks for reading,

-B.O.G