Introduction
Capital Market Solutions' Regulatory Surveillance and Monitoring System (RSMS) plays a critical role in ensuring financial institutions remain compliant with industry regulations. One area where RSMS provides invaluable oversight is in the detection of potential front-running schemes.
Front-running occurs when a broker or trader takes advantage of advanced knowledge of a pending large transaction that will affect its price. By executing trades ahead of the large order, the front-runner can capitalize on any price movement caused by the large transaction. This unethical practice gives the front-runner an unfair advantage and compromises market integrity.
The Case
Recently, a mid-size institutional firm that utilizes CMS's RSMS surveillance solution uncovered a potential front-running issue during a routine review of system alerts and exceptions. The firm has numerous trading desks executing orders across multiple asset classes for a diverse pool of institutional and individual investor clients. It reported a case of front running.In a dynamic business environment, scalability is crucial. IT services provide the flexibility to scale up or down your resources based on changing business needs. Cloud services, for instance, allow seamless expansion of storage and computational power
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Introduction
Capital Market Solutions’ Regulatory Surveillance and Monitoring System (RSMS) plays a critical role in ensuring financial institutions remain compliant with industry regulations. One area where RSMS provides invaluable oversight is in the detection of potential front-running schemes.
Front-running occurs when a broker or trader takes advantage of advanced knowledge of a pending large transaction that will affect its price. By executing trades ahead of the large order, the front-runner can capitalize on any price movement caused by the large transaction. This unethical practice gives the front-runner an unfair advantage and compromises market integrity.
The Case
Recently, a mid-size institutional firm that utilizes CMS’s RSMS surveillance solution uncovered a potential front-running issue during a routine review of system alerts and exceptions. The firm has numerous trading desks executing orders across multiple asset classes for a diverse pool of institutional and individual investor clients. It reported a case of front running.
According to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) rules, broker-dealers must make every effort to treat all customer orders fairly and without prejudice. While firms do have some discretion in determining the sequence of order execution, regulations explicitly prohibit giving preferential treatment to the orders of any particular customer or trader.
How RSMS Helped
RSMS highlighted an unusual pattern of behavior over several trading days wherein a specific customer’s orders were prioritized for execution over those of other customers in the same stock.
This represented a clear breach of the firm’s policies and procedures, as well as FINRA’s just and equitable principles of trade. If left undetected and unaddressed, it may have prompted scrutiny from regulators that could have severely damaged the firm’s reputation and opened it up to potential enforcement actions and penalties.
Without the advanced surveillance capabilities of RSMS, this pattern of potential front-running would likely have gone undetected by the firm. Even sophisticated compliance teams relying on manual processes or more rudimentary surveillance systems can struggle to identify these complex multi-day schemes amid the millions of orders and executions that flow through an institutional trading operation daily.
Thanks to RSMS’s advanced front-running detection techniques, the firm was able to quickly address it and implement enhanced surveillance around its order-handling practices.
Client Feedback
Without RSMS’s Front running module, the firm would have not been able to detect and correct the issue of front-running customer orders, resulting in a potential inquiry from FINRA regulators.
“Capital Market Solutions’ RSMS platform is a critical component of our risk and compliance program,” stated the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer. “The front-running module’s ability has proved invaluable in allowing us to get ahead of potential regulatory violations.”
He added, “Without this automated surveillance capability from RSMS, there is no way we could have devoted analytical resources to comb through the millions of data points and detect this scheme before it became a much larger issue. RSMS is truly a game-changer in terms of our ability to monitor for such trading activity.”
Without RSMS’s Front running module, the firm would have not been able to detect and correct the issue of front-running customer orders, resulting in a potential inquiry from FINRA regulators.
Conclusion
In the ultra-competitive modern financial landscape, maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct is paramount for institutional trading firms. Even a single lapse can significantly undermine a firm’s credibility and jeopardize long-standing client relationships that took years to cultivate.
By providing continuous, sophisticated cross-market surveillance and monitoring, RSMS ensures firms have full visibility into their trade lifecycle. Analytics identify outlier behaviours and patterns that could potentially indicate a lack of supervision, trading ahead or other regulatory violations.
RSMS is cloud-based software and integrates seamlessly with firms’ existing architectures and processes. Customizable rules and case management workflows allow compliance teams to tailor the solution to their unique needs and risk profiles.
By deploying cutting-edge trade surveillance capabilities like those delivered by Capital Market Solutions’ RSMS, firms can protect their businesses, client interests, and reputations from irreparable harm.
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