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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…

FSB Names Derivatives Service Bureau as Sole Provider of the Unique Product Identifier

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has designated the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) as the sole service provider for the future Unique Product Identifier (UPI) system. The DSB will also be the operator of the UPI reference data library and will start to issue UPIs once their code and reference data are set as international data…

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,…

OpenFin Offers Low-cost OS to Start-ups and Initiates Services Framework

OpenFin continues to build out its interoperable financial desktop with the offer of its Enterprise Edition OpenFin operating system at a ‘dramatically’ reduced rate for early stage fintechs and start-ups. The initiative is designed to allow emerging businesses to build applications on the OpenFin OS alongside larger players, accelerating innovation and collaboration, and delivering additional…

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….

Bloomberg Plans to Withdraw SSEOMS and Exit the Equities OMS Market

Bloomberg is planning to withdraw its Sell-Side Execution and Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) and pull out of the equities OMS market, although it will continue to focus on other customer priority areas in equity markets where it has strong offerings. The company has declined to provide details of its decision to quit the equities OMS…

Refinitiv Banks on Silver Lining as Cloud Delivery Features High on Trading Product Agenda

As it comes to terms with its new ownership under Blackstone Group, Refinitiv is continuing apace with its long-stated aim of incorporating cloud into its delivery options for the trading environment. Acknowledging that not all trading-related data and activities are appropriate for cloud, the company is deep into its programme to offer cloud delivery where…

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…

Bloomberg to Quit KYC Business

Bloomberg is planning to exit the Know Your Customer (KYC) market and withdraw its Entity Exchange KYC and client onboarding solution, as well as its Entity Intelligence screening service. The company has declined to discuss its reasons for quitting KYC and exactly when it will do so, but in a highly competitive market it seems…