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IFPR – The UK’s New Prudential Regime: Is Your Firm Ready?
By Murray Campbell, CASS Business Consultant, AutoRek. The Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) comes into effect in the UK on January 1, 2022, and will overhaul the prudential regulations that are currently applicable to MiFID investment firms. This will bring significant changes to the way investment firms assess their capital adequacy and monitor associated risks….
Tractiv Raises $2.25 Million to Build Out Tracking Solution to Aid Regulatory Data Validation
Chicago-based data usage monitoring and tracking specialist Tractiv, founded in 2020 under the name TradeX, has raised $2.25 million in seed funding to expand its engineering and sales teams. At the same time, the company has added Mark Almeida, to its board of directors. Almeida is Limited Partner Advisor at Nyca Partners – which led…
Moody’s Boosts KYC Offerings with Acquisition of PassFort and Kompany
Moody’s Corp. has continued its foray into the regulatory and compliance segment with the acquisition of two KYC solutions providers: PassFort Ltd. and 360kompany (a.k.a. kompany). The two acquisitions are aimed at adding to Moody’s KYC, AML and counterparty risk capabilities, and are illustrative of the heating up of the beneficial ownership, sanctions and financial…
Surveillance Experts Discuss Impact on Segment of WFH
In case you missed it, watch below to hear this panel at our recent RegTech Summit Virtual discuss managing trade and communications surveillance in the new world of work. The panelists include: Moderator: Matthew Bernstein, Information Governance Strategist, MC Bernstein Data Yasmine Li, Head of EMEA Surveillance, Macquarie Group Stan Yakoff, Head of Americas Supervision,…
IOSCO Report Shows Data Regulations are Just Around the Corner
Growing calls for ESG data and ratings provisions to be brought under the watch of regulators around the world is likely to result in a swell of legislation in the next year or so, vendors told ESG Insight. After a global grouping of financial watchdogs recommended that ESG data products and services be included in…
Optimising Sustainable Investment Processes – How Asset Managers Can Best Prepare
By Martijn Groot, vice president, Marketing and Strategy, Alveo. Investment strategies are increasingly being driven by environmental social and governance (ESG) criteria and considerations, and ESG investment is growing rapidly. Research from Bloomberg found that assets invested according to ESG criteria are on track to exceed $53 trillion by 2025, representing more than a third…
There’s More To A-Team Than Meets the Eye – Check Out Our Shiny New Website to Find Out More
Here at A-Team Group HQ, we’ve spent a lot of the global pandemic tracking and supporting the capital markets technology industry as it has grappled with the operational hurdles Covid-19 threw in their path. But we have also been working behind the scenes to launch a new website for our marketing clients to better reflect…
Aztec Group Adds Fenergo CLM to Technology Stack on Route to Digital Transformation
Aztec Group, a specialist in alternative asset classes, has selected Fenergo’s cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) client lifecycle management (CLM) to digitalise client and investor journeys. The solution will replace legacy systems and existing processes for client onboarding and compliance, enabling Aztec Group to onboard investors faster while improving the user, client and investor experience. The company…
SFDR: Dilemma of Shakespearean Proportions Looms Amid Scope Three Preparations
This article first appeared on A-Team Group’s ESG Insight channel. Financial institutions putting compliance processes in place for the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations may be reminded of Claudius’ dilemma in Hamlet. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions,” the usurper king bemoans as he contemplates an avalanche of challenges…
RegTech Summit Virtual: The Outlook for Regulatory Compliance and RegTech in a Digital Economy
The role of digital transformation in the growth of the RegTech sector cannot be overstated, but a number of complex challenges and barriers to more widespread adoption remain. Launching A-Team Group’s two day RegTech Summit, this first panel brought together a group of leading industry figures to discuss the major compliance issues from the perspective…