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Meet-the-Team Series:
Leigh Hill, Marketing Operations Manager
This week’s edition of our Meet-the-Team series focuses on our self-proclaimed “Jack-of-all-Trades” Leigh Hill; A-Team Group’s Marketing Operations Manager. Nearly six years ago, Leigh joined the team and hasn’t looked back! Her working life started out in sales administration, transitioned to a sales and marketing role and from there she caught the marketing bug. Her…
Element22 Outlines The Data Challenges and Business Opportunities of SFDR Compliance
With the first deadline of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) fast approaching on 10 March 2021, is your organisation data ready for compliance, what data management challenges are you facing, and how can these be overcome? Still more, how prepared is your organisation for the next deadline on 30 June 2021, and the…
How to Manage Dual Sanctions Compliance Post Brexit Addition of UK Regime to EU Regulation
Brexit created a number of regulatory compliance challenges for financial institutions in the UK, not least a change to sanctions regulation that is set out in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, and is fundamentally different to EU sanctions regulation. If your organisation falls within scope of the new UK sanctions regime or both…
Mirato Raises $9 Million to Fund AI-Based Supplier Risk Platform
In another indicator of the market’s acceptance of AI, Tel Aviv-based Mirato has raised $9 million to support the development and commercialization of its third-party risk management (TPRM) platform. With regulators intensifying their scrutiny of financial institutions’ relationships with external suppliers – with regulations like GDPR addressing privacy concerns, for instance – Mirato’s offering helps…
Clearstream Taps Xceptor to Boost Withholding-Tax Processing for Custodians
Central securities depository Clearstream has teamed with Xceptor to redefine its capabilities for withholding-tax processing for its custodians and other financial intermediaries. The upgraded service is aimed at helping institutional investors address deal complex and cumbersome, often-manual processes for handling withholding tax across global markets and asset classes. With tax authorities globally elevating the level…
TruNarrative Brings Identity Verification Solution to Small Businesses
Leeds-based Enterprise RegTech TruNarrative has launched a brand new, low-cost client verification and regulatory compliance solution for the legal, investment, accountancy and Rreal estate sectors in a bid to solve and streamline the KYC and KYB challenge for smaller firms. TruPortal is a platform designed specifically for low-volume users, offering KYC and AML solutions including AI-driven…
Europe and ESG: Counting Down to SFDR
By Francesco Cavallini, Client Relationship Director, IQ-EQ. In its commitment to channeling private financial flows towards investments that support Paris Agreement targets – and more broadly the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the European Union adopted the European Green Deal in March 2018. Some policy initiatives within this deal specifically target the finance…
Uncovering PEPs in Fight Against Financial Crime
By Rachel Woolley, Global Director of Crime at Fenergo. Non-compliance is a costly business. Throughout 2020, financial institutions (FIs) around the globe have received $10.6 billion in enforcement actions for financial crime violations, including breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations— up 27% from last year. With the pandemic leading to…
Meet the A-Team Series:
Andrew Delaney, CCO
Welcome to the second instalment of our Meet the A-Team series. This week, we’ll focus on our always witty capital markets guru; President and Chief Content Officer, Andrew Delaney. Andrew has been with A-Team Group “since the beginning” – 20 years ago this year. When asked how he would describe what he does here, Andrew…
Automated-Intelligence Launches Regulatory Risk Scoring with hivera
At the start of this month, data management specialist Automated-Intelligence (which provides data insight, risk identification and compliance reporting to financial services firms through its cloud-based solution, AI.DATALIFT), made headlines with the launch of its long-awaited new RegTech platform – allowing Chief Risk Officers and Heads of Compliance to visualise and mitigate the regulatory risk across their…