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How Blockchain Can Help Reduce the Threat of Trade-Based Money Laundering
By Henry Roxas, Head of Trade Finance, R3. The amount of money laundered globally in a single year has been estimated at as much as $2 trillion. Despite billions of dollars of investment in preventative measures, financial institutions are only managing to intercept less than 0.1% of illicit funds. Evidently, money laundering is a booming…
Greenwashing Being Aided by Inconsistent Data, Say Experts
The growth of ESG data sources will be a powerful weapon in the battle against greenwashing, but a lack of consistency within datasets and the difficulty many companies face in providing enough intel is increasing opportunities for them to exaggerate their achievements, according to leading industry figures. Long-standing challenges such as standardisation of unstructured data…
AutoRek Urges Industry to Prepare for Jan 1 IFPR Start
Automated reconciliations provider AutoRek has warned firms to start preparing their systems for the complex calculations and processes they will need to undertake to be compliant with the UK’s incoming Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR), which go live on January 1 – now less than 100 days away. IFPR is being introduced by the Financial…
UK FCA Targets up to £4 billion of Reporting Costs via Transforming Data Collection Initiative
The Financial Conduct Authority’s involvement in the Bank of England’s Transforming Data Collection Initiative is aimed at reducing industry reporting costs of as much as £4 billion, according to FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi. The initiative – launched in February – aims to deliver improvements in data collection over the next decade. Speaking last week at…
Data an Obstacle to Banks’ ESG Reporting, Says Acin
Banks and asset managers are failing to deal with climate risks adequately, according to a survey whose authors said a lack of “true, fair, accurate, honest and comprehensive” data was partly responsible. Risk and control data standards provider Acin said only 19 per cent of 63 global organisations surveyed on their preparedness to meet climate-related…
Video: Panel Discusses Leveraging Data Science and AI, NLP and Machine Learning for Insight
Watch this playback video from ESG Briefing Virtual, with expert speakers: Moderator: Mark Davies, Partner, Element 22 Priyank Patwa, Director of M&G Labs, M&G Vincent Orti, Head of Data Solutions, Liontrust Asset Management Graham Taylor, ESG Data Science Lead, Data Insights Unit, Schroders Tanya Seajay, CEO & Founder, Orenda, a SIX company Do you enjoy…
Video: Panel Addresses ESG Data and Reporting Challenges
Watch this expert panel discussion from ESG Briefing Virtual featuring: Moderator: Navin Rauniar, Partner, TCS & MD, PRMIA UK Steering Committee Hany Choueiri, Chief Data Officer, Aldermore Bank Lynn Watts, Head of Data Governance, Royal London Asset Management Philip Miller, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Solidatus Fraser Hall, Global Product Manager – FinReg, Adenza Do you enjoy…
CloudMargin Expands Custodian Network as More Firms Come into UMR Scope
Collateral management technology provider CloudMargin has expanded its network to include close to 60 custodians, following the start of Phase 5 of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) this month and ahead of even more buy-side firms falling under the scope of Phase 6 next year. On September 1, asset managers with an Aggregated Average Notional…
ACA Group Adds e-Comms Surveillance with Catelas Acquisition
ACA Group’s acquisition of e-comms surveillance specialist Catelas is the latest step in its bid to create a comprehensive solution designed to meet all the needs of compliance professionals based on its Compliance Alpha platform. Catelas boosts ACA’s capabilities in the surveillance area, and brings with it a host of major clients allowing ACA to…
SIX Fintech Ventures Leads $8 Million Funding for Crypto RegTech Coinfirm
SIX Fintech Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Swiss exchange operator and data vendor SIX, has co-led an $8 million Series A funding round for Coinfirm, which operates a blockchain-based AML Platform for crypto assets designed to protect against ransomware hacks, human trafficking, sanctions evasion and terrorist financing by risk scoring entities, addresses and transactions. As part of the…