Onfido Identify Verification Brings RegTech Innovation to KYC
For most banks, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulation is broad, challenging and time consuming. Compliance that provides a satisfactory and competitive customer experience is difficult to achieve and non-compliance can result in huge monetary fines and reputational damage. RegTech providers are answering the call for a better approach to KYC and...
A-Team RegTech Summit Showcases Technology Innovation
Roll up, Roll up! The A-Team Group RegTech Summit for Capital Markets is coming to town, with an event in London on Thursday October 5th and in New York City on Thursday November 16th. The agendas for both summits are packed with keynotes, panels and presentations dedicated to solving the regulatory conundrum, while a RegTech...
Alyne Offers RegTech Solution for Cyber Security, Risk Management and Compliance
Alyne is a Munich-based RegTech company offering a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution designed to help organisations improve risk insight. Its proposition is built on a combination of providing a curated content library crafted by industry experts and highly usable functionality at an extremely competitive price. Its mission statement: We make gaining risk insights to your business...
EDI Offers Corporate Actions Data Service Designed to Undercut NYSE Prices
Exchange Data International (EDI) has introduced a corporate actions service that it says undercuts data redistribution costs charged by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). EDI’s move is a response to a June 2017 NYSE policy that extends redistribution charges for corporate actions data in the equities space. Jonathan Bloch, founder and CEO of EDI,...
SteelEye Discusses RegTech Data Platform for MiFID II and More
Ahead of A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in London, we caught up with Matt Smith, CEO at SteelEye, to discuss the company’s RegTech proposition, potential users, and participation in our London event. Q: What does RegTech mean to you? A: For me, RegTech is the application of technical innovation to reduce the complexity...
Thomson Reuters BlockOne IQ Adds Market Data to Blockchain Transactions
Thomson Reuters is building out its blockchain capability with BlockOne IQ, which allows blockchain applications to include the company’s current and historic market data in their processes, and provides cryptographic proof that Thomson Reuters is the source of the data. BlockOne IQ follows the company’s 2016 release of BlockOne ID, which allows developers to map...
Challenging the Cost and Complexity of Corporate Actions Data Management
Corporate actions data management can be costly, complex and time consuming, but there are approaches and solutions in the market that can ease these problems and support more streamlined operations for the benefit of the business. A recent A-Team Group webinar tracked the progress of corporate actions automation, standards development and ongoing change, and concluded...
Data Management Industry Weathers the Political Storm
Capital markets in the US and Europe are fraught with uncertainty following the election of President Trump in the US and the start of the Brexit process in the UK, but what material effects will these changes have on data management and will they present more opportunities than threats? The regulatory landscape in uncertain times...
AI Depends On Collecting Adequate Data and Organizing Correctly, Experts Say
Capitalizing on internal data repositories, deciding how to stage data, choosing data wisely and achieving semantic interoperability are all ways in which firms can better apply emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for greater data quality and insight based on data, according to experts who spoke at the Data Management Summit hosted by A-Team Group in...
ANNA DSB Opens Test Platform for OTC ISINs and Outlines Further Plans
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), a subsidiary of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) designed to issue ISIN identifiers for OTC derivatives under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), has opened its user acceptance testing platform to the industry. The platform provides near real-time allocation of ISINs for OTC derivatives and generates...