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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…

PassFort Raises $16.2 Million to Fund Expansion

Financial crime compliance automation specialist PassFort has raised $16.2 million through its recent Series A funding. The company, whose SaaS-based platform automates financial crime and compliance processes, will use the funds to realise its global growth plans. The funding round was led by the US growth equity fund, Level Equity, with participation from PassFort’s existing…

ION Acquires Clarus to Offer Solutions for UMR, Broader Derivatives Analytics

Trading solutions vendor ION Markets has acquired derivatives analytics specialist Clarus Financial Technology, in part to help clients to comply with the new Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) regulation for OTC derivatives. The acquisition – for an undisclosed sum – of the provider of SaaS-delivered analytics, data and research will also broaden ION’s capabilities in the…

ESG – Today’s Data and Technology Landscape

Given the surge in demand for ESG data and technology solutions to meet regulatory requirements, established financial technology and data suppliers are putting their expertise to work, creating new solutions to meet that demand. With so much going on, navigating the emerging landscape can be confusing. So what are the key ESG functions financial services…

ESG Data Sector Optimistic About Meeting Investor Demand for Greater Portfolio Transparency

The growing hunger for information on investment portfolio’ ESG positions will lead to much-needed improvements in data quality, analytics and, ultimately, levels of disclosure. That was the message from leading market participants at A-Team Group’s ESG Insight briefing this week, which took a snapshot of the sector at a pivotal time for corporate responsibility, as…

Video: Keynote Fireside Chat: ESG – A Strategic Imperative

Watch this exclusive fireside chat with Dr. Kay Swinburne, Vice Chair of Financial Services at KPMG from ESG Briefing Virtual. Do you enjoy this content? Be sure to sign up as a member (it’s free) to get weekly updates and invites to ESG-related events and webinars.

Video: Building Blocks of Successful ESG Initiatives

In this video, Brad Foster, global head of enterprise data content at Bloomberg, discusses the data and data management elements of successful ESG initiatives. Among these he notes the need for a solid data and technology foundation, as well as links between ESG data and other datasets to gain insight and value from the data….

GRAC Service Provider RiskBusiness Launches GDPR Equivalency Checker

Governance, risk, audit and compliance (GRAC) content and service provider RiskBusiness has introduced a GDPR Equivalency Checker ahead of new EU data privacy requirements coming into effect later this month. The new tool is targeted at all financial services firms impacted by the incoming changes under the so-called Schrems II legislation that comes into effect…

Newly Merged Calypso and AxiomSL to Rebrand as Adenza

Regtech AxiomSL and trading, treasury and risk management platform Calypso Technology – which merged in July – have rebranded under the name Adenza, joining the likes of Finastra (formerly Misys), Alveo (formerly Asset Control) and others in settling on a synthetic term under which to operate as a fintech going forward. According to the company,…