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Refinitiv Partners Appway to Provide Digital Onboarding for Wealth Management and Broker-dealer Clients
Refinitiv has reached a strategic partnership with Appway to integrate the latter’s client onboarding solutions on the Refinitiv BETA Platform, a suite of brokerage capabilities used by many US wealth management and brokerage firms. The integration reflects a growing desire among wealth managers and brokers to automate their services, and will enable financial intermediaries and…
Culture and Internal Company Set-up Prove Problematic in SMCR Implementation
The Senior Managers Certification Regime (SMCR) is a hot and vexing topic, with internal company set-up and culture presenting a significant challenge for many financial services firms as they prepare for the December 9, 2019 deadline by when arrangements for senior managers and certification staff must be in place for all firms and from when…
Pragmatic Innovation is the Key to Success
By Alessandro Tonchia, co-founder and director of Finantix. Delivering innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based technologies to improve business and operational performance is crucial to the future of the wealth management industry. Wealth management advisors are paid a certain amount of basis points on the proviso that they will give a clear view on what is best…
The Case for Effective AML Controls as the FCA Highlights Financial Crime Concerns, Targets Transaction Reporting
Alongside the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 released this week, the regulator also published its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Annual Report. Part of a wider focus on financial crime (which includes the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing of November 2017 and an FCA thematic review on capital…
Wolters Kluwer Launches OneSumX SaaS Regulatory Reporting Solution
Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business has launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) Regulatory Reporting solution, marking the first time that the company’s OneSumX regulatory software has been made available on the cloud. The SaaS solution offers the same functionality as the company’s on-premise product, based on the upgraded OneSumX Regulatory Engine technology platform. The…
Building a Powerhouse: How Ireland Became a Regtech Center of Excellence
By David Rochford, Head of Hedge Funds at MUFG Investor Services. Over the past decade, spurred by the financial crisis and ensuing regulatory regimes, Ireland has become a regtech powerhouse. The size of the regtech market is expected to grow to $12.3 billion by 2023, up from USD 4.3 billion in 2018, and Ireland is…
Xceptor Names ex-GBST Exec Tom Edwards as Chief Operating Officer
Xceptor, a global data ingestion, automation and transformation software provider, has appointed Tom Edwards as chief operating officer with responsibility to support the company’s growth strategy. Most recently, Edwards was head of delivery at wealth management and capital markets technology provider GBST. Edwards has over 30 years’ experience in project implementation and professional services delivery…
AI AML Software Trend Continues with Deutsche Bank’s Adoption of Finantix
At the beginning of July, Finantix announced that Deutsche Bank Wealth Management selected its AI-powered Finantix KYC Solution to help enhance the bank’s client onboarding and know-your-client (KYC) processes. The solution is already up and running in Germany, Deutsche Bank’s largest wealth management centre and the bank is now set to roll it out across…
UK Regulators Eye Up Digital Regulatory Reporting
UK regulators are stepping up their efforts to digitise regulatory reporting over the next few years. The changes the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) propose – and which are being developed jointly with the industry – promise a transformation in the way data flows between supervisors and financial services firms….
The Model Muddle
By Richard Moss, Product Manager, AxiomSL. Many financial institutions (FIs) find themselves wondering how they became mired in a credit model muddle that is dragging down their profitability. They want to know how they can get out of this swamp. Traditionally, FIs heavily relied on economic capital models to support business decision-making. Then, with the…