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BearingPoint Sells RegTech Business to Nordic Capital
Tech consultancy BearingPoint has confirmed the sale of its independent RegTech business unit to Nordic Capital, a private equity investor with a strong track record of developing technology companies and enabling and driving global growth. The sale does not come as a complete surprise – RegTech has been working to develop its autonomy within BearingPoint…
Challenger Bank Allica Selects London Start-Up Sphonic for Financial Crime Compliance
Allica Bank, a digital challenger bank first launched in 2020 to focus on small businesses underserved by mainstream institutions, has selected a financial crime product suite from London-based Regtech firm Sphonic’s to support its compliance function. Sphonic, first formed in 2012 with the creation of its core product Workflow Manager (WFM), acts as a Data…
Lombard Odier Selects Bloomberg to Streamline Risk Management Processes
Lombard Odier Investment Managers, the asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, has adopted Bloomberg’s PORT Enterprise solution to support portfolio and risk management across multiple assets classes. Lombard Odier IM is a long-standing client of Bloomberg’s order management system AIM, and first integrated PORT Enterprise back in 2019 to support performance attribution and…
Why the Reality of Third-Country Regulatory Reporting is About to Bite!
By Volker Lainer, Vice-President of Product Management at GoldenSource. Just two months until the end of the transition period, ESMA’s latest report brings home the stark reality of what third-country status means for UK financial institutions from a regulatory reporting perspective. Regardless of whether or not a trade agreement between the EU and the UK…
SteelEye Joins Forces with Refinitiv on RegTech Suite
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has incorporated Refinitiv market data on its RegTech platform in a bid to help its clients enhance their compliance and analytics capabilities. Refinitiv provides one of the widest ranges of cross-asset data available, with 7.3 million price updates per second for over 84 million instruments and 2.5…
The Next CAT Deadline is Here – And the Error Rate is High
The interfirm linkage for the Equities Phase 2a of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) went live in the US today (October 26), with firms now required to validate transaction linkages between them to ensure orders are routed correctly. One of the most important milestones of the entire CAT journey, the interfirm linkage requirements are nevertheless…
Approaches to Regulatory Trade Reporting: A Fireside Chat
This week, RegTech Insight was delighted to welcome Mark Solomon, Director of Trading & Securities Operations at Brandywine Global Investment Management, who sat down with our very own Chief of Content Andrew Delaney to discuss approaches to regulatory trade reporting and, in particular, the challenges of reporting across multiple jurisdictions for multiple regulations. Brandywine, a…
The Future of Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Antony Phillipson
As the RegTech Summit Virtual 2020 fast approaches, we are so pleased to welcome Antony Phillipson, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America and Consul General in New York on Day Three (November 18) for a special Keynote speech and Q&A to discuss a possible Brexit UK-US FTA and outline the future of transatlantic regulatory…
Shield Launches New Solution to Detect Market Abuse
Specialist RegTech provider Shield has launched a new solution that combines its Insider Trading and Information Handling models. The enhanced platform, INSIDERS, is designed to meet the growing market demand for improved surveillance to accompany increased remote working in the new post-Covid normal. Firms are coming under unprecedented pressure to monitor all relevant communication channels, whilst…
Buy-and-Build Pioneer Thoma Bravo to Acquire AxiomSL
As we suggested a few weeks ago, AxiomSL was indeed up for sale – and it looks like Chicago-based private equity firm Thoma Bravo has won the race, with news this week that the firm has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in AxiomSL for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close by the end…