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DBS Bank Selects Exiger to Help Combat Risks of Financial Crime
Singapore-based DBS Bank has partnered with Exiger, a provider of tech-enabled financial crime, risk and compliance solutions, to implement an artificial intelligence (AI) powered due diligence solution to streamline and support the bank’s screening processes. The automated AI-powered solution, DDIQ, analyses content with cognitive reasoning to accelerate and enhance risk assessments of clients, investments, transactions,…
A-Team RegTech Summit Emphasises Urgency of Efficient, Enterprise-Wide Compliance
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit made a triumphant return to a full house in New York last Thursday, with an excellent turnout of over 230 practitioners, regulators, start-ups and solution providers all keen to explore how the financial services industry can best leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change. Colin Ware, Global…
DTCC Delivers Beta Version of FRTB Data Service
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a beta version of its FRTB Real Price Observations Data Service. The service enables the mapping of risk factors to a pool of global derivatives data to gain insight on modellability results in accordance with the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) framework. FRTB, released…
Evidology Systems Breaks the Mould with New Argument-Based Compliance Approach
Rupert Brown, CTO of Evidology Systems, thinks that the industry is in trouble. With a lack of inspiration and a mountain of documentation, financial services firms are failing to handle their evolving regulatory requirements in an efficient manner – and compliance checks form a crucial part of that transition. “We stopped innovating in 2008,” he…
Speeding up the Onboarding Experience, FactSet-Style
This week’s RegTech Summit in New York welcomes an array of leading-edge innovators to discuss the biggest issues, challenges, innovations, and opportunities in the RegTech industry today. One of these is the tricky question of how to digitise the customer experience with KYC and AML technology, and joining us to discuss the issue is Ali…
SEC Extends MiFID II Exemption Once Again, FCA Approves for UK Dealings Post-Brexit
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has once again extended its October 26, 2017 no-action letter allowing US banks to sell research directly to European fund managers under MiFID II without registering as investment advisors. Set to expire on July 3, 2020, the letter has been extended for a further three years to July 3,…
Tipping the Balance: The Growing Importance of Consolidated Surveillance
Transaction reporting may have started off as a baby elephant but as regulators increasingly focus on the importance of accurately recorded data, and the regulatory landscape becomes ever more complex, that animal is getting bigger. MiFID II and MiFIR transformed the scope of transaction reporting for financial firms, requiring them not only to guard against…
KYC Focus: Top Tech Tips for 2020 with WorldWatch Plus
The financial markets are a tricky place to be these days, buffeted by winds of change coming from multiple directions. With social, economic, and political pressures piling on top of an already onerous regulatory burden, firms might be forgiven for feeling a little overwhelmed. The good news is that technology is keeping pace, providing new…
Taming the Regulatory Beast with Advanced Data Integration Techniques
The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly complex regulatory environment – one that demands an unprecedented level of data access and integration, for which, it seems, the both the industry and its regulators remain surprisingly under-prepared. A recent white paper from JWG and MarkLogic entitled ‘Ready for Digital Regulation?’ predicts that there…
FCA Highlights ‘Underserviced’ RegTech Sector in Latest Innovation Initiative
RegTech is the “sleeping giant” of the financial services world, according to FCA Director of Innovation Nick Cook, who notes that while investments in the sector more than doubled between 2017 (in excess of £1.4 billion) and 2018 (in excess of £3.4 billion), several key challenges are still inhibiting the industry from reaching its full…