The European Central Securities Depositories Association has established a working group to look at how to meet clearing and settlement recommendations issued by the Giovannini Group, including one regarding corporate actions. The group – headed by Michael Kempe, a manager at U.K. depository Crest – expects to report on its findings in the fourth quarter of 2004.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
A-Team Group’s 16th annual Data Management Summit London brought together data leaders from the world’s largest financial institutions to discuss the biggest data and technology issues and trends within their industry. Hundreds of delegates from all over the world gathered to hear the latest thoughts of practitioners in keynote addresses and panel discussions before breaking...
Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
The US corporate actions market has long been characterised as paper-based and manually intensive, but it seems that much progress is being made of late to tackle the lack of automation due to the introduction of four little letters: XBRL. According to a survey by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and standards...
