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2020 and Beyond: What Does the Future Look Like for Model Risk Management?

By Henry Umney, CEO of ClusterSeven. Model risk management is at the very heart of the financial industry, with models providing the quantitative data required to make informed decisions every single day. In today’s increasingly digital world, institutions are beginning to rely more heavily on models than ever before. The uses of these models are…

EU Benchmarks Regulation: An Opportunity in Disguise?

The switch from Libor to new benchmarks under the EU’s Benchmarks Regulation has been heralded as one of the most significant changes to the financial markets in recent years. With wide-ranging implications for multiple functions across financial institutions, the reform poses substantial compliance challenges – but could also create new opportunities, specifically around the necessary…

Simcorp Go Live with SFTR Cloud Solution

Danish investment management solutions provider Simcorp has gone live with its new SFTR cloud solution, in partnership with regulatory compliance specialist deltaconX. Forming part of Simcorp’s latest software release, the solution offers SFTR transaction reporting through the deltaconX regulatory platform. With the first wave of SFTR reporting requirements coming into force in April next year,…

Clausematch Partners with Aberdeen Standard for Compliance Solution

Clausematch, a software-as-a-service provider for smart document management, has teamed up with Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) in Singapore to develop a buy-side solution for the asset management industry under a Digital Accelerator Program run by the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS). The AI and machine-learning-enabled platform developed by Clausematch enabled ASI to test a…

Blockchain in the Fund management and Audit Industries: Could it Restore Trust?

By Nish Kotecha, Chairman and Co-founder of Finboot, and Bryan Foss, Independent Director and Visiting Professor at Bristol Business School. Not too long ago, Neil Woodford was still regularly heralded as a “superstar” manager and the “Oracle of Oxford”. How different the story is today. In mid-October, Neil Woodford announced that his Woodford Investment Management…

New ISIN/LEI Data Connection from GoldenSource

Enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource has today revealed a new data connection to support the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) initiative to link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs). The combined ANNA/GLEIF initiative was created to increase the transparency of trading exposure by…

Why Further Brexit Delay Creates Greater Reporting Uncertainty for Fund Managers

By Quinn Perrott, co-CEO of TRAction. There is a funny sense of déjà vu when it comes to the latest twist in the Brexit saga. The trouble is that whenever the can gets kicked down the road, market participants put Brexit to one side and allocate IT, process management and compliance resources elsewhere. Then, as…

Bank of England: Machine Learning set to Double in Financial Services

The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published a new report on ‘Machine Learning in UK Financial Services’ that predicts live machine learning (ML) applications will more than double within the next three years. The report is the result of a joint 2019 survey between the two regulators covering over 300…

Operational Inefficiencies Costing Banks $3.3trn: Fenergo

New research from client lifecycle management provider Fenergo reveals that slow and manual onboarding processes could lead to commercial and business banks individually losing $4.5 billion in revenue if they don’t bring their technology and systems up to date. With onboarding times rising by an average of three weeks in the last 12 months, if…

Trade and Transaction Reporting Challenges – EU Demands for US Firms

At the upcoming RegTech Summit New York, William Gates of SmartStream RDU will be enlightening us as to the current challenges around MiFID II and MiFIR for US-based firms; as well as giving a rundown of where we are (as far as anyone can really know!) with Brexit, and what the implications could be for…