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How to Meet the Data Rules and Requirements of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book Regulation
Implementation of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation is complex, demanding and time consuming, but can be achieved by setting priorities, working with external data vendors, and taking best practice approaches to the data management challenges presented by the regulation. A well-attended A-Team Group briefing hosted at the Glaziers Hall in London, Meeting…
Fenergo Finds Outdated Technology Preventing Investment in Disruptive Technologies
Fenergo has published the final installment of its three-part Client Lifecycle Management Trends Report – Disrupt the Disrupters and the findings are rather gloomy in an industry that needs to drive towards digitalisation to sustain success. According to the research, 20% of C-suite executives in banks say the lack of maturity of their technology infrastructure…
How Process Mapping is the Starting Point for Effective KYC Automated Solutions
By Oliver Parris, Pre-Sales Consultant, encompass corporation. Your business knows that process automation will give you a strategic advantage but how do you begin to create this vision? How is all the detail of your complex Know Your Customer (KYC) process accurately captured in order to form a foundation for the journey towards automation? What…
IHS Markit Releases Accelerator with End Goal of Same-day Client Onboarding
IHS Markit has released Onboarding Accelerator, a solution to help banks and other service providers open accounts with institutional clients more quickly and ultimately in one day. The company says that, on average, the onboarding process including collection of all required information to satisfy Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), credit, legal and tax…
Fenergo Builds National KYC Utility with Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions
The Kingdom of Bahrain has set out to improve financial institutions’ client onboarding and minimise fraud through a partnership with Fenergo. Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions (BENEFIT) is working with the vendor to design and implement a national Know Your Customer (KYC) utility that incorporates blockchain technology. The utility platform will support sectors including…
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…