RegTech Insight Blogs The latest content from across the platform
International Compliance – A New Era for SMCR
By Andrew Shrimpton, Executive Chairman of Compliance Consulting at IQ-EQ With great power comes great responsibility. Yes; but in the era of SMCR, heads of compliance have found out that even a medium amount of power now comes with an almost unpalatable amount of personal accountability – and legal jeopardy. In many cases, this has…
SEC Releases Long-Awaited Guidance for Rule 606 on Broker Disclosures – But is it Enough?
Rule 606, updated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last year to require additional disclosures by broker-dealers to customers regarding the handling of their orders, has caused headaches for the sell-side since it was first proposed – largely due to the complexity of the original 334-page mandate. With the postponed October 1, 2019 deadline…
Would ICE Really Buy Bloomberg?
By Andrew Delaney. The London Stock Exchange’s planned $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv – the former Reuters – got us thinking: who’s left of the independent market data vendors, and who would buy them? Of the major global vendors that have dominated the space over the past decade or so, only one independent remains. With…
98% of Firms Not Ready for SM&CR, Finds ACA Compliance
Less than 2% of affected firms have completed sufficient preparation for the FCA’s upcoming Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) while only 2% of employees have sufficient awareness of the new rules and their implications across the organisation, according to a new survey from ACA Compliance. The new regulation is due to come into force…
Exiger Wins SMBC Business with AI Tool
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe has confirmed an agreement with London-based governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions provider Exiger to utilise its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered KYC onboarding technology, DDIQ, to drive its KYC programme in the EMEA region. The bank selected Exiger following a detailed evaluation process, and deploy the solution throughout its client onboarding…
Bloomberg Acquires RegTek.Solutions Amid Growing Demand for Reporting Integration
Last week Bloomberg announced the acquisition of RegTek.Solutions, a 2017 software spin-out from capital markets consulting firm Risk Focus. The move marks a renewed focus from Bloomberg on the regulatory reporting space, amid growing demand from financial institutions for more strategic, harmonised solutions to help meet today’s increasingly rigorous compliance challenges. Financial institutions are facing…
Industry Bodies Join Forces to Create New SFTR/EMIR Master Reporting Agreement
The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) has partnered with the Futures Industry Association (FIA), the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) to create a new Master Reporting Agreement compatible with SFTR and EMIR. The EMIR and SFTR reporting regimes share certain key features – in particular, both provide…
Bank Hapoalim Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX Software for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk
Leading Israeli institution Bank Hapoalim has signed up with Wolters Kluwer to manage its credit risk profile using the firm’s OneSumX solution for risk management. The bank will utilise the software for measuring counterparty credit risk as per Basel III’s Standardised approach for measuring counterparty credit risk exposures (SA-CCR), which first came into force January…
NICE Actimize Launches New Regulation BI Solution
On June 5, 2019 the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to approve the new Regulation Best Interest (BI), imposing rigorous new requirements to ensure firms are transparent and act in their clients’ best interest. Due to come into force on June 30, 2020, the new rule substantially upgrades existing suitability regulations to raise…
SmartStream Expands Further into Germany with New Partnership
Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions provider SmartStream Technologies has moved further into the German market, joining forces with Finanz Informatik Solutions Plus (Finanz), a specialist in outsourcing, consulting, development and integration services for business applications in the financial sector. Under the new agreement, Finanz will help its German clients with implementation projects and application management…