Meanwhile, Telekurs Financial has appointed a new sales manager for its Ireland branch. John McManus will be responsible for all new and existing clients in the Irish marketplace. He joins from Dublin-based Zarion where he was a business consultant focused on compliance and anti-money laundering solutions within the financial sector.
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) creates new data sources that could be used to identify business opportunities and gain competitive edge. The sources include Approved Publication Arrangements (APA) and ESMA’s Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS). The regulation also mandates use of standard data, disaggregated market data feeds, and ISINs for OTC...
Financial crime compliance is often described as a resourcing challenge. Firms speak of analyst backlogs, alert volumes and the rising cost of surveillance and screening. Kieran Holland, Solutions Engineering Team Leader at Innovative Systems’ FinScan, argues that the underlying constraint has shifted. Financial crime has become a decision-speed problem. “The fight against financial crime is...
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.
A-Team Group’s ESG Handbook 2021 is a ‘must read’ for all capital markets participants, data vendors and solutions providers involved in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing and product development. It includes extensive coverage of all elements of ESG, from an initial definition and why ESG is important, to existing and emerging regulations, data challenges...
