A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Covid Proof: The Future of Onboarding High-Net-Worth Clients
By Hugo Chamberlain, COO, smartKYC. The future of high-net-worth client onboarding has arrived – and it is one well suited for our post-COVID world. Automated and paperless, it enables wealth managers to accelerate acquisition, fully comply with the most stringent KYC regulations and deliver a frictionless start to the beginning of the client relationship. In...
Trading & Electronic Communications Surveillance in a Changing World
By Mike O’Hara, Special Correspondent. The ongoing necessity for many trading professionals to work from home has placed an additional burden on compliance teams struggling to ensure their firms play by the rules while staff operate away from designed-for-purpose trading floors. The situation has been a catalyst for change in how surveillance against financial crime...
How to Get Your Data Management Ducks in a Row to Deliver Rapid, High Quality Analytics and Surveillance
Is your organisation looking to achieve market-beating analytics and exceptional market surveillance that will surpass regulatory compliance to deliver new business opportunities? If this is the case, look no further than A-Team Group’s next webinar that will discuss how to build a robust data management discipline to drive efficient and effective analytics and market surveillance....
DXC Technology Spins Off Fixnetix to Options Technology
Almost four years after inheriting the company as part of its 2017 acquisition of CSC, DXT Technology has spun off capital markets infrastructure specialist Fixnetix in a sale to erstwhile rival Options Technology. Terms weren’t disclosed. The transaction – which is expected to close in the first half of this year – marks a full...
Lack of Equivalence Post Brexit Raises Costly Data Management Concerns
The UK has finally left the European Union. A trade deal was wrung out at the eleventh hour, allowing the two sides to trade with zero tariffs and quotas, but the financial services industry has been left hanging – with talk of an MoU around the regulation of financial services being reached by March 2021...
ANNA and GLEIF Expand ISIN-to-LEI Mapping Service
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has further expanded the ISIN-to-LEI mapping service it provides in conjunction with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to cover ISINs in an additional group of jurisdictions. The mapping service developed collectively by the GLEIF, ANNA and its National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) was launched as a pilot...
Solidatus Moves into 2021 with Expansion Plans Backed by Investment from Citi
Solidatus, provider of a data management platform that allows businesses to rapidly map and visualise their data landscape, grew from strength to strength in 2020, and is on the cusp of further strategic development as it heads into 2021 with plans to accelerate growth, expand into the US and Asia Pacific, and release next-generation data...
Brexit is Here – But Sadly, Equivalence is Not
The UK has finally left the European Union. A trade deal was wrung out at the eleventh hour, allowing the two sides to trade with zero tariffs and quotas, but the financial services industry has been left hanging – with talk of an MoU around the regulation of financial services being reached only by March...
FCA Cracks Down on OMS Reporting Errors: Regulated Firms Pay the Price
By Matt Smith, CEO, SteelEye. Certain Order Management Systems (OMSs) have recently come under scrutiny from the FCA because of quality issues around MiFIR reporting. Firms that heavily rely on their OMS for daily regulatory reporting have been found to consistently over or under report their transactions. The responsibility for accurate reporting rests solely with...
2021 Predictions: Change is Afoot
By Marc Murphy, CEO, Fenergo. It almost feels like the financial industry went to bed in March 2020 and woke up in 2030. Prior to the pandemic, financial institutions had been falling behind when it came to digital transformation, only increasing resources when absolutely necessary. But now, the pandemic has forced financial institutions to make...