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IHS Markit Partners Encompass to Speed Up KYC Process
IHS Markit has integrated an automated solution from London-based encompass into its KYC services in a bid to reduce manual processes and drive efficiency. Encompass automates the collection of KYC data from the public domain, including global corporate registries, regulatory listings and exchanges, and is expected to reduce time for data gathering by 30%. Other…
Workplace Diversity Makes Positive Impact on Bottom Line, Acquiring Talent, Client Service
Whatever your organisation’s commitment to diversity in the workplace, the evidence is stacking up to suggest diversity initiatives are no longer a ‘nice to have’, but an imperative for business development and growth – and the time to act is now. Research carried out recently by Broadridge Financial Solutions looked at the impact of diversity…
Encompass Corporation and IHS Markit Partner to Chop KYC Time by a Third
IHS Markit has integrated a new KYC automation solution from London-based encompass corporation into its KYC Services offering, in a bid to reduce manual processes and drive efficiency. Using encompass, IHS Markit has fully automated the collection of critical KYC data from the public domain, including global corporate registries, regulatory listings and exchanges. As the regulatory…
Tom Raptis Joins Reformis from Refinitiv
Tom Raptis, a former senior consultant at Refinitiv and previously with Thomson Reuters for seven years, has joined Reformis, a business and technology consultancy for the buy-side that specialises in data management, trading platform optimisation, and regulatory and client reporting. Raptis joined Reformis today as a senior consultant based in London. He brings data management…
GoldenSource Releases New Datasets to Help Banks with Brexit Reporting Changes
Software and services provider GoldenSource last week announced the release of a series of new Brexit-specific datasets via its enterprise data management solution, to help banks prepare for differing regulatory demands in the wake of the UK’s expected departure from the EU on the 29th March 2019. The firm implemented the move in response to…
Data Breaches Up 480% in 2018, but is GDPR Compliance the Answer?
The number of data breaches reported by UK financial services firms to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) increased by 480% in 2018, up to 145 up from just 25 in 2017. Is this solely down to the new GDPR regime, or are there a wider problems at play – and how can firms leverage new…
Senior Managers & Certification Regime: Six Major Challenges for Financial Firms
The FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) is topping the list of regulatory challenges for financial institutions in 2019, with the December 9 deadline throwing up new challenges and concerns around the way firms must handle their duties, process their data and implement internal procedures. Martin Lovick, Senior Principal Consultant at governance, risk and…
KRM22 Launches Enterprise Risk Cockpit
KRM22, a technology and software investment firm with a focus on risk management in capital markets, today announced the launch of the Enterprise Risk Cockpit, a real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms. The Enterprise Risk Cockpit is designed to improve data accuracy and steer clients away from cumbersome spreadsheets towards a more…
Counting the Costs and Constraints of Building In-House Solutions
Research commissioned by Asset Control highlights the pain points of updating or replacing in-house solutions, including cost, skills and resourcing, and the difficulty of deploying solutions to the cloud. Headline statistics from the research show 94% of respondents expecting to encounter challenges of some sort when building a solution in-house, and 52% of senior decision…
Gresham Partners with RegTek Solutions for Strategic Transaction Reporting
Data integrity and control software provider Gresham Technologies has joined forces with regulatory reporting specialist RegTek Solutions in a strategic relationship linking RegTek’s Reconcile.Trade solution with Gresham’s Clareti Platform to offer increased transparency and control over transaction reporting requirements. The Reconcile.Trade platform allows clients to reconcile front-office trading records against data samples provided by competent…