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A Guide to the Essential ESG Acronyms You Need to Know
Even Experts Need A Reminder of the ESG Alphabet Soup At the first-ever ESG Data and Tech Summit London last month, moderators Andrew Delaney, A-Team Group President and Chief Content Officer, and Data Management Insight Editor Sarah Underwood sat before a backdrop adorned with ESG-related acronyms, initials and abbreviations. As speakers and guests took their…
Protecting Data Privacy in the Fight Against Financial Crime
By Ronen Cohen, VP of Strategy at Duality Technologies. A primary goal for financial institutions is to generate revenue while understanding and mitigating risk. Tackling financial crime and compliance issues, including fraud, cybercrimes and money laundering, is critical to achieving this goal and remains among the most challenging tasks for the industry. The perpetual problem…
ACA Completes Foreside Merger to Form One of Largest GRC Platforms
GRC platform operator ACA Group has completed its merger with Foreside Financial Group, creating one of the world’s most extensive governance, risk and compliance offerings. The merger combines ACA’s regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, ESG and performance capabilities with Foreside’s distribution and broker-dealer capabilities to create a one-stop shop for investment firms. ACA’s business model involves supplementing its…
New Perspectives on ESG Challenges and Opportunities to be Debated at A-Team New York Briefing
Fresh from the success of A-Team’s inaugural ESG Data and Tech Summit London earlier this month, experts and market participants are now looking to New York where we will be hosting the first ESG Data Management Briefing. A host of high-level speakers from international banks, asset managers and data vendors will gather on June 16…
Citi Head of Sustainable Finance Reviews State of Play on Achieving ESG Goals
Financial institutions play a critical role in global sustainability and are making progress in ESG investment, yet significant challenges remain, not least the need for more and better data, and a common regulatory reporting framework. Jason Channell, managing director, head of sustainable finance, Citi Global Insights, at Citi, discussed the strategic imperative for capital markets…
Firms Turning to Voice Transcription to Address Regulatory Scrutiny
Demand for voice transcription services from surveillance professionals at financial institutions is at record highs, according to analysis from compliance data and technology specialist SteelEye. Firms are seeking voice-to-text solutions for calls on fixed-line, mobile, MS Teams, Zoom, WhatsApp, and other communications mechanisms as part of to their surveillance programmes. SteelEye analyzed all Requests for…
Video: ACA’s Charlotte Longman and Matt Chapman Discuss the Challenges and Solutions of Transaction Reporting
In this video, Charlotte Longman and Matt Chapman, managing directors and co-leads of ACA’s regulatory reporting monitoring and assurance solution – and winners of the most innovative trade and transaction reporting initiative in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2022 – discuss the state of play in transaction reporting, the scale and detail of regulatory reporting breaches,…
A-Team ESG Data and Tech Summit Debuts with a Message of Care
“He who cares wins.” If the many takeaways from A-Team Group’s inaugural ESG Data and Tech Summit in London last week could be summarised in one quote, it is that from Sean Taylor, Executive Director, Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management. The former military serviceman paraphrased the slogan of the UK’s elite army corps, the SAS, to characterise…
ESG Data and Tech Summit: Planet and Profit Depend on Getting ESG Data Right
Getting ESG data right is vital not only for financial institutions’ bottom lines and to meet regulatory obligations but for the very survival of the planet. The hard-hitting observation was made by Phillip Miller, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive at software manager Solidatus in a keynote address to the inaugural A-Team Group ESG Insight Data and…
True Settlement Efficiency Lies Beneath the Surface of the CSDR Penalties Regime
By Heiko Stuber, senior product manager, financial information, SIX. What trades will we have to pay penalties on and how much will we need to pay? This is still the fundamental question financial institutions face since the Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR) Settlement Discipline Regime came into force back in February. But as so often…