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A-Team Group Announces Winners for 2019 RegTech Insight Awards
A-Team Group on Friday announced the winners of its prestigious RegTech Insight Awards during a well-attended and energetic ceremony held at Banking Hall on London’s Cornhill. The awards, now in their third year, recognise excellence and innovation in the provision of technology solutions to meet regulatory requirements within the financial services industry, and are uniquely…
Making KYC Simpler Through Intelligent Automation
By Roger Carson, Co-Founder & Global Financial Sales Director at encompass corporation. In this blog, we explore the concept of digital Know Your Customer (KYC) profiles. Created by intelligent automation, digital KYC profiles persist from client onboarding and through refresh and monitoring work, helping financial institutions manage and retain valuable information, control complexity and reduce costs,…
IBM Partners with Thomson Reuters on New AI/Data Combination to Simplify Regulatory Compliance
IBM (through Watson Financial Services) and Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence on Wednesday announced a joint collaboration to help banks address ever-growing regulatory requirements through a new combination of AI and real-time regulatory insights. Financial institutions are faced with hundreds of regulatory alerts daily, with an estimated 300 million new regulations on the way by 2020….
Catena Ramps Up SFTR Reporting with UnaVista
Catena Technologies this week announced an extension of its collaboration with UnaVista, part of London Stock Exchange Group, to help firms prepare and comply with Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) transaction reporting. Catena has extended its membership of UnaVista’s Partner Programme to include SFTR. This will enable its customers to automate trade reporting submission and post-submission…
DoubleEdge Partners with Insightful Technology to Tackle Data Compliance Challenges
Following the recent relaunch of its flagship Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution Soteria in April, Insightful Technology today announced a new venture with longstanding partners DoubleEdge, specialists in communications compliance, to tackle issues around the consolidation of data, vendor and technology silos for effective data compliance, surveillance and risk mitigation. “To date, financial firms have coped with…
SIX and Eagle Investment Systems Expand Alliance to Include Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service
Switzerland-based data provider SIX and Eagle Investment Systems, a BNY Mellon company, today announced an expanded alliance to help Eagle clients source global sanctions data – building on an established relationship dating back to 2011. Eagle clients can now source sanctions data directly from SIX for use within Eagle solutions. The alliance will help to…
FRTB Could Place Emerging Markets, Smaller Banks at a Disadvantage, Warns ISDA
A new report from the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) released in April has warned that continued uncertainty around the implementation of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) at a national level has the potential to place institutions in emerging markets at a material disadvantage compared to those in more developed economies….
ESMA Updates Information on MiFID II & MiFIR Transparency
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in April updated its Questions and Answers regarding market structures and transparency issues under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). The new Q&As provide clarification on topics including the determination of the turnover to be used for the average value of transactions (AVT)…
Research Payments Dip in Europe and UK, Finds New Study
Average European research payments lagged North American research payments by over 40% last year, according to data from Integrity Research’s fourth major benchmark study of research pricing. The survey results indicate that MiFID II has had a broad (and not necessarily positive) impact on research pricing since its implementation in January 2018. Average payments for…
PRA110: Now is the time
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority’s new PRA110 liquidity framework comes into effect on 1 July 2019. Compared to other liquidity templates, PRA110 is significantly more granular and requires more frequent reporting. Effective implementation, however, offers financial institutions the opportunity to raise their liquidity standards; improve their access to vital data; and add genuine commercial value….