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MiFID II Hampers Competition in Research Provision, Substantive Survey Finds
Competition in the marketplace for the provision of investment research has been weakened by MiFID II as buy-side firms lean more heavily on their core brokers. That’s the finding of a recent survey of 40 investment managers by research analytics provider Substantive Research. The Substantive Survey, which set out to identify recent research pricing trends…
Energy Firm Vitol Deploys Relativity Trace to Combat Market Abuse
Energy and commodity trading company Vitol has deployed Chicago-based Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform, Relativity Trace, to proactively detect regulatory misconduct. Relativity Trace’s alerting capabilities can help reduce false positives, with Vitol experiencing a 92% reduction on false positive alerting, according to Relativity. Vitol implemented Relativity Trace in just under four months. The system is now used…
Social Taxonomy Poses Data Challenges Say Experts
The European Union’s plans to create a Social Taxonomy will pose even greater data challenges than the framework created for financial institutions and companies to report on their environmental impacts. Experts warn that the lack of concrete data on issues such as diversity and modern slavery will make the process of formulating the regulation slow…
What is Digital Transformation and How Do You Get it Right?
While financial institutions are grasping the opportunities offered by the digital transformation of their activities, a number of impediments are hampering some from extending the strategy to their operations teams in the back office. A stubborn corporate culture, fear of change and a lack of planning are just some of the challenges cited by industry…
A Global Turning Point for Sanctions and Compliance
By Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets, Eventus. The digital assets community is rallying around Ukraine in its moment of need. The humanitarian crisis there is personal and direct given Ukraine is a global leader in blockchain engineering talent. During a digital assets conference I attended last month in San Francisco, many entrepreneurs…
The 16 Best Conduct Risk Solution Providers in 2022
Following many well publicised misconduct issues within financial services, there is now a regulatory spotlight on the issue of conduct risk (in addition to all the fines) in an effort to help rebuild trust and support future growth. The FCA broadly defines conduct risk as ‘any action of a regulated firm or individual that leads…
Data Firms See Benefits From ISSB, GRI Coordination
Data vendors and managers have welcomed a recent tie-up between two major global ESG standards setters, saying the move would bring clarity to the opaque sustainability reporting space. Leading companies in the ESG data space said the memorandum of understanding signed between the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) would lead…
Many Firms Are Not Data-Ready for SFDR Level 2
Many financial institutions have yet to grasp the data implications of the European Union’s ESG reporting regulations, while others are scrambling to put in place processes to comply with the developing set of disclosure rules. That’s the observation of professional consultancy ACA Group, whose ESG Regulatory and Governance Lead Dani Williams said the company is…
ESMA Proposes Amendments to MiFIR Transparency Requirements
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has proposed targeted amendments to some of its Regulatory Technical Standards, essentially RTS 1 and RTS 2, which specify Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) transparency requirements for equity and non-equity. The amendments aim to clarify, improve and simplify the transparency regime for equity and non-equity instruments. The…
SmartSearch Releases High-Risk Country Report Service in Response to Sanctions Against Russia
SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering (AML) specialist, has released a high-risk country report service in response to the introduction of sanctions against Russia. The service enables regulated businesses to scan existing clients and check for residency or citizenship in Russia, Belarus, or any other high-risk countries. The reporting tool instantly checks all clients that the regulated business has…