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SmartStream Adds AI to Reconciliation Platform
UK-based SmartStream Technologies has launched TLM Aurora Universal Data Control, an AI-enabled platform for managing the complex data underpinning firms’ reconciliations activities. TLM Aurora UDC builds on the technology used for SmartStream’s Air, its next-generation AI solution for reconciliation processing, version 2 of which was officially launched in October last year. Air introduces advanced AI…
Broadridge’s $2.5 Billion Itiviti Deal Aims to Simplify Firms’ Front-to-Back Workflow
Broadridge Financial Services is seeking to bolster its multi-jurisdictional reach with the €2.143 billion (approximately $2.5 billion) cash acquisition of Scandinavian trading and connectivity solutions provider Itiviti, announced last week. Itiviti’s order and execution management systems (OEMS) and messaging middleware give Broadridge a strong presence in the front office. But it also addresses clients’ needs…
Russell Investments Modernises Compliance Using ACA’s ComplianceAlpha
Russell Investments has embarked on a major modernisation of its risk and compliance programme based on ACA Group’s ComplianceAlpha managed service. The vision is to create a single platform to establish a single source of truth for all relevant data and analysis, boosting the effectiveness and efficiency of its risk and compliance teams. The initiative…
VoxSmart Raises $25 Million with Toscafund to Finance Expansion and Growth
In a deal claimed to be one of the largest fundraises conducted for the RegTech and Compliance sector, London-based communications surveillance provider VoxSmart has raised $25 million to strengthen its markets surveillance technology suite and to fund further expansion, particularly in North America and emerging markets. Following $13.7 million raised in earlier rounds of Series…
China Merchants Bank Selects Appway for Onboarding and KYC Compliance Checks
China Merchants Bank – Singapore branch (CMB SG) has selected Appway to provide client lifecycle management solutions and domain expertise to accelerate the branch’s compliance agility and efficiencies. Appway’s Singapore office will lead the implementation of its Onboarding for Wealth and KYC Review solutions, as well as its Digital Binder product for front to back…
With First CFTC Limits Deadline Past, FundApps Urges Firms to Plan for Next Wave
Practitioners reported general readiness for the introduction last week of new CFTC rules around position limits, a decade after the regulator first floated its plans for changing them. Regulated firms are now being urged to prepare for further changes scheduled for next year, which will introduce new exchange rules and federal limits on derivatives contracts…
Encompass Secures New Funding from Beacon
London-based Know Your Customer (KYC) automation software provider Encompass Corp. has secured new investment from Beacon Equity Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm that focuses on companies in the regulatory and compliance space, as part of a broader capital round that included existing investors. Joe Bradley will join Encompass’s Advisory Council, to sit alongside existing members Stephen Allen,…
The Lexicon is Dead – Time to Reboot
By Matt Storey, Chief Product Officer, SteelEye. For years now, surveillance of regulated employees at financial services firms has relied on the lexicon, a piece of technology that scans staff for specific words or sequences of words that could be associated with an act of market abuse or misconduct. For example, a firm might have…
Quantexa Addresses AML with Contextual Decision Intelligence
London-based data and analytics company Quantexa is addressing the challenge of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring and investigation with the use of contextual decision intelligence (CDI), a means of enriching internal data with external data and building networks of relationships to create a contextual view of a customer. This approach is aimed at generating meaningful alerts…
Basel III Reforms: ‘Heads in the Cloud’ Time for Financial Institutions
By Alexander Dorfmann, Senior Product Manager, SIX. Cast your mind back to around this time 14 years ago, when a certain investment bank’s share price nose-dived amid major concerns that its short-term liabilities were far greater than its liquid assets. That bank was Lehman Brothers, of course, and its downfall was underpinned by a fundamental…