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A-Team Group Releases Shortlist for 2019 RegTech Insight Awards
A-Team Group has released a shortlist of potential winners for its hotly anticipated third annual RegTech Insight Awards, to be held in the City of London on May 3, 2019. The awards recognise excellence and innovation in the provision of technology solutions to meet regulatory requirements within the financial services industry, and are uniquely designed…
Lack of Senior Management Buy-in is Prohibiting Digital Transformation, Finds Fenergo
Digital maturity is still a long way off for financial institutions, according to new research by Fenergo, provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions. The findings of Fenergo’s CLM Report, which is the second in a three-part series, showed that fewer than half (40%) of the 250 financial institutions surveyed…
Financial Institutions are Moving Towards Re-engineering Their Risk Management Systems – But at What Cost?
In a volatile market environment and with the edict to “do more with less,” many financial institutions are finally launching new efforts to reengineer their risk management programs, according to a new survey by Deloitte Global – with emerging technologies firmly in the driver’s seat. The report represents the 11th biennial edition of Global Risk Management Survey,…
Risk Management for Crypto-Assets: Where are the Pain Points?
By Phil Cotter, Managing Director of Risk, Refinitiv. The recent warning from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) relating to crypto-assets has emphasised once again the importance of a robust risk management framework for banks – but what does that mean in practical terms and what are some of the implications? The risks the…
KRM22: Addressing the Cost of Complex Legacy Systems
Last week, technology and software investment firm KRM22 announced the launch of its Enterprise Risk Cockpit, a real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms. RegTech Insight followed up with CEO Keith Todd to learn more about why the company is so committed to making a difference in capital markets compliance. Having been involved…
Beam Solutions Issues Warning on Insufficient AML Procedures Across EU Member States
Beam Solutions, a San Francisco-based transaction monitoring platform founded in 2016 by former Facebook and Paypal executives, has warned of widespread Russian money laundering within the EU banking system. In a note published March 18, the software company noted that multiple major European banks were facing allegations of failing to prevent money laundering taking place…
CellTrust Partners with Global Relay for New Voice Recording Solution
CellTrust Corporation, a US-based provider of enterprise mobile communications compliance- capture and security, has teamed up with the Global Relay, which offers compliance archiving, supervision, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions to the financial services industry, to launch a new CellTrust SL2 voice capture solution. CellTrust SL2 captures voice communication and contextual history, provides voice call records…
Brexit Uncertainty: Putting MiFID II Tactics to the Test
Last week, software and services provider GoldenSource released new Brexit-specific datasets to help banks prepare for the worst in the event of a no-deal Brexit on March 29. With the prospect of any deal still very much up in the air, and only 10 days to go till the deadline, concerns are running high. So…
EVIA Calls for Clarification and Consistency Around Scope of MiFID II
Following the German Finance Ministry’s recent call for feedback on MiFID II and MiFIR, one year on from implementation, the European Venues and Intermediaries Association (EVIA, formerly known as the Wholesale Markets’ Brokers Association), has raised numerous concerns around the lack of clarity and consistency of regulatory interpretation across markets. Despite praising the benefits of…
Tookitaki Raises $7.5m in Series A Funding
Tookitaki, a regulatory technology company that aims to enable financial institutions to develop sustainable compliance programs through the use of AI-based technology, has raised S$7.5 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by London-based Illuminate Financial, an early-stage enterprise financial technology investor, along with Jungle Ventures, a Singapore-based VC firm focused on technology…