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Top 19 e-Comms Surveillance Providers 2024
Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against a registered investment adviser for widespread and longstanding failures to maintain and preserve certain electronic communications; the matter was settled for $6.5 million. This case is notable because it is the first time the SEC has brought charges against an RIA with no ties…
SteelEye Survey Finds Compliance Investment Falling while Regulatory Demands Continue to Rise
Compliance teams are facing escalating pressures driven by greater regulatory scrutiny and macroeconomic challenges, according to the 2024 Annual Compliance Health Check Report from SteelEye’. This is the third Annual Compliance Health Check report which surveyed over 400 senior compliance decision makers at financial institutions across major financial centres in the US, UK, APAC, and…
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance Deploys Generative AI to Transform Due Diligence
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance has launched an AI-powered research platform to help clients reduce the time and effort in building investigative due diligence reports from multiple sources. The new offering aims to reshape compliance workflows, creating an additional layer of investigation that can be deployed at scale. Dow Jones Integrity Check is an automated…
Verdane Takes Majority Stake in Regulatory Intelligence Specialist Corlytics
Specialist growth investor Verdane has taken a majority equity stake in regulatory intelligence provider, and has committed to accelerating organic growth and M&A, building on Corlytics’ client base of 40% of the top 30 Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs). The transaction, which was managed by investment bank Baird, is a cornerstone investment from Verdane’s newly…
CTM Debuts New Tri-Party Matching Workflow for Prime Brokers with Société Générale as First to Go Live
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the leading provider of post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has announced Société Générale as the first Prime Broker to adopt the Central Trade Manager’s (CTM) automated tri-party trade matching workflow. This development comes as the financial services sector worldwide braces for T+1 and more…
Saifr Addresses Need for Continuous Due Diligence in Marcomms Content Compliance
Ensuring financial services’ firms marketing messages accurately reflect what’s really on offer has long been a challenge for compliance professionals. And with other areas of the business attracting substantial and highly public penalties from regulators, the danger was that this function didn’t get the attention it deserved. But regulators are starting to pay more attention,…
ValidMind Secures $8.1 Million for Model Risk Management and AI Governance Solutions Development
ValidMind has secured $8.1 million in a seed funding round. The investment will focus on developing model risk management and AI governance within the banking and financial services sectors. The company says the seed round was over-subscribed, demonstrating support from investors in its long-term vision to be the certifying authority for all AI solutions, starting…
NICE Actimize ARCHIVE-X Offers Single Source Regulatory Record Keeping
NICE Actimize has released ARCHIVE-X, a cloud-based, all communications archiving and records management solution that provides buy-side, sell-side and online trading platforms with one solution to support regulatory requirements for communications archiving and records management. The aim is to help financial institutions achieve more robust records lifecycle management and reduce compliance risk by archiving all…
Global Screening Services Raises $47 Million, Moves into Operational Phase
Global Screening Services (GSS), a provider of transaction screening, has completed a Series A2 funding round raising over $47 million (£37 million). The investment will support the London-based company’s transition from a development to operational phase as its cloud-native platform prepares to go live with inaugural clients. Originally incubated by AlixPartners, GSS tackles the complexity…
SmartSearch Sets Growth Plans Following Investment from Triple Private Equity
SmartSearch, a UK provider of digital compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) software, has received a large investment from Triple Private Equity. The private equity firm will gain a majority share in SmartSearch and work with the company to support its core markets and continued expansion following the release of its latest technology platform last year….