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EU Regulator Offers Guidance on Cloud Outsourcing
ESMA has issued new guidance this month to help financial providers understand their compliance responsibilities when outsourcing functions or investment activities to cloud-based providers. Published on 3 June in in draft form and currently open to consultation, the proposals are designed to help firms mitigate the risks that they are exposed to when outsourcing to…
Nasdaq Ventures Invests in AML Specialist Caspian
Nasdaq Ventures, the investment arm of Nasdaq, has taken a minority stake in Caspian – a UK-based specialist in automated AML investigation technology and the winner of the RegTech Insight Award for ‘Best Regulatory Alert Management System’ 2020. With this additional funding, Caspian expects to accelerate its product expansion and scale of its automated platform, AML Investigator. Nasdaq’s market…
DTCC Steps Up SFTR Testing with Delta Capita
Market infrastructure giant The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has extended its collaboration with London-based technology consulting and managed services specialist Delta Capita to help firms meet their trade reporting requirements under SFTR, due to come into force in July after the first phase was delayed from its initial April start date due to…
FCA to Increase Surveillance Scrutiny Over Market Abuse Concerns
In its latest Market Watch of May 2020, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) shines a spotlight on the challenges of monitoring against market abuse during the coronavirus pandemic – warning that it will continue to take enforcement action, and urging financial services firms to review and where necessary upgrade their systems and processes to…
Communications = Key Compliance Concern During Covid-19
COVID-19, lockdown, working from home and self-isolation are now well established across the financial industry, but how are compliance teams impacted? A recent survey on market abuse monitoring from SteelEye found that almost half (40%) of the 80 market participants have seen their compliance budgets increase since the lockdown, with monitoring communications seen as the…
Basel IV FRTB Changes Leave Financial Institutions Asking: How Do You Spell Difficult? “F-R-T-B”
By Mahim Mehra, Senior Risk Advisor, AxiomSL. With the original introduction of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) completely rewrote the rules used to determine how much capital financial institutions must hold in order to adequately capitalize their exposure to market risk. The previous FRTB changes…
Kompli-Global Partners with Yoti to Tackle Money Laundering through Verified Identities
Kompli-Global, a RegTech AML specialist, has formed a strategic partnership with digital identity and credential management platform, Yoti, to tackle money laundering through biometric identity and document authentication. Kompli-Global recently launched its remote corporate onboarding platform, Kompli-QED, combining its own proprietary solutions with best-in-class third party services. Yoti, a UK-based digital ID and credential management…
RIMES Launches BMR Dashboard Service for EU Benchmarks Regulation
RIMES, the winner of Best Vendor Solution for Benchmark Regulation at the 2020 RegTech Insight Awards, has expanded its RegTech suite with the launch of the RegFocus BMR Dashboard, a new tool to help asset managers understand their exposure under the EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR). The BMR has provided a significant compliance challenge for the buy-side….
And the Winner Is….
The results are in, and A-Team Group is delighted to announce the winners of our annual RegTech Insight Awards, celebrating the very best and most innovative solutions and providers within the fast-growing RegTech space. Now in their fourth year, the prestigious annual awards recognise both established solution providers and innovative newcomers, seeking to herald and…
SmartSearch Adds Facial Recognition Feature in Response to COVID-19
Yorkshire-based AML specialist SmartSearch has introduced a new facial recognition feature to its one stop shop’ Know Your Customer (KYC) and AML platform, in response to restrictions on ID verification due to COVID-19. The automatic verification platform enables clients to perform full electronic ID verification and screening remotely, reducing the impact on firms from current…