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SFDR Ready to Take the Fizz Out of New Year For ESG Compliance Teams
New Year celebrations are unlikely to last long for Europe’s fund and asset managers; at the stroke of midnight when party poppers are pulled and prosecco corks are popped, regulations that force funds to disclose the ESG performance of their investments will suddenly become tougher. The European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) will step…
RegTech Can Help Solve ESG Data Management and Trust Challenges
As demand for data grows with the acceptance of ESG as a critical part of financial institutions’ business and regulatory activities, focus will intensify on the quality of that information. Asset managers and owners will want the cleanest, most relevant and most comprehensive datasets to identify investment opportunities and risks and to comply with the…
Arbuthnot Latham Taps Clausematch to Digitise Compliance Framework
Private bank Arbuthnot Latham is adopting Clausematch’s policy management platform to automate and streamline its compliance processes. The initiative aims to digitise Arbuthnot’s policy and compliance framework. According to Clausematch, Arbuthnot will use its proprietary policy management solution to reduce the time and risk of policy maintenance by giving compliance teams a centralised platform for…
CSRD Approval Seen as Major Step in Closing ESG Data Holes
The European Union’s approval of its Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) this week has given the greenlight to a regulation that’s expected to provide financial institutions with more comprehensive ESG data and go some way to eradicating greenwashing. The long-awaited rules will bring non-financial companies into the EU’s sustainability reporting regime, forcing them to submit…
RegCentric Wins A-Team Group Award for Best Regulatory Consultancy in APAC
Sydney, Australia-based RegCentric has won the award for Best Regulatory Consultancy in A-Team Group’s first live RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022. The awards celebrate leading providers of regulatory solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Asia-Pacific. The winners are named after A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight community votes for its favourite providers in…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Inaugural RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s inaugural RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022. The awards were presented by Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer at A-Team Group during a drinks reception following A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit APAC in Singapore on 29 November 2022. The RegTech Insight Awards recognise both established solution providers and…
Could do Better: Year-End ESG Data Reports Offer Mixed Picture
The growing importance of ESG to the financial system was reflected this year in a greater push among investors and asset managers to address challenges in the data and reporting environment. Several end-of-year snapshots of the ESG sector paint a picture of greater engagement by the financial community in the sources and quality of the…
Clamour for ESG Data Makes Good Management Crucial
ESG data is now core to banks’ and financial institutions’ operations, their compliance and risk processes and the products they offer investors. For that reason, it’s crucial that this data be managed properly and treated in the same way as other datasets. Without good data management, banks can be left commercially and legally exposed, vulnerable…
FINRA Outlines Perspective on RegTech
RegTech innovation is commendable, but must be accompanied by risk mitigation, seen as a means to an end rather than an end in itself, and selected for use by a cross-section of an organisation that is inclusive of, but not limited to, IT and compliance. Opening A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit New York with a keynote…
Sell-Side Firms Help Buy-Side Clients Meet Reporting Obligations with DTCC Report Hub
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released Report Hub, an assisted reporting model designed to allow sell-side firms to help buy-side clients with regulatory reporting mandates across 14 jurisdictions. Sell-side firms including prime brokers and clearing brokers can use Report Hub to provide required counterparty trade data to buy-side clients that also use…