Asset manager Hermes Pensions Management Ltd. is considering using Bank of New York to provide a range of outsourced investment operations services, including data management. BNY’s proposal calls for the migration of Hermes’ operational functions to be migrated to the BNY SmartSource platform and centralized outsourcing business model.
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...
Three years ago when Swiss financial data and market infrastructure provider SIX launched its first report together with Crisil Coalition Greenwich on the state of play within the buy-side, the subject of artificial intelligence barely made an appearance. Fast-forward to 2025, and AI dominates the latest report. AI is being deployed within a growing number...
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 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year. But with the exception of a few modifications, the legislation remains in place and starts to comes into force in earnest...