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Taskize and Symphony Integrate to Streamline Financial Services Workflow
Taskize, a key provider of inter-company workflow in the financial services industry, has announced an integration with Symphony, the market infrastructure and technology platform, aiming to enhance real-time collaboration between operations teams and front-office users. This pivotal partnership was unveiled and demonstrated at the Symphony Innovate London event, 2023. The integration promises to modernise industry…
FRTB Implementation in APAC: Practical Solutions for Outstanding Compliance Challenges
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation is back, with proposals from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) for a new market risk-related capital requirement for banks due to be implemented across APAC over the next few years. Singapore and Japan have set implementation deadlines in 2024, while Australia has pushed out go-live…
LeapXpert Unveils Enterprise Monitoring for Apple iMessage
Regulatory surveillance specialist LeapXpert’s has added a so-called Governed Mode to its LeapXpert Communications Platform, creating an enterprise solution for capturing and facilitating enterprise communications on Apple’s iMessage messaging service. The LeapXpert platform is now able to capture conversations carried out between clients using iMessage with enterprise employees communicating through Leap Work and Leap Work…
Automation Failure in Capital Markets – Why We Need to Talk About Data Management
By James Maxfield, Head of Product at Duco. ‘I don’t understand what all these people do?’ is a common question in capital markets as budgets are set for the next cycle and the C-team (EO,FO,OO) queries its cost base. This creates a cycle of justification from process owners – ops, risk, finance – who usually…
A-Team Group Names Winners of RegTech Insight Awards – Europe 2023
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight Awards – Europe 2023. The awards were presented by guest speaker Ollie Ollerton, former UK Special Forces Soldier and directing staff (DS) from Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, following a lively lunch held at Glaziers Hall in London on 18 May 2023 and hosted by…
TradingTech Briefing New York: Examining the Latest in Trading Technology
The TradingTech Briefing New York, an eagerly awaited event in the financial technology space, is scheduled for the afternoon of 8th June 2023 at Meet Hospitality, 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York. The event will bring together a diverse group of thought leaders, technology innovators, and industry insiders to discuss the cutting-edge trends and…
ESG Insight Webinar Report: A Bumpy Regulatory Road Ahead but Riches Will Follow
ESG has placed companies within a “chaotic” new world of regulatory responsibility but getting sustainability right through data and technology will reward them and their investors with healthier bottom lines and larger returns. That was the message that rang loud and clear from A-Team Group ESG Insight’s first expert-led ESG webinar of the year, held this…
DLT Has Potential to Transform Capital Markets, Says Joint Report by GFMA and Others
A new report co-authored by the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Clifford Chance, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, underscores the transformative potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for capital markets. The report encourages market participants to actively mould the future application of DLT and urges policymakers to provide more precise…
ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: The Art of Getting Data Right
ESG has become an integral, complex part of financial institutions’ workflows, making it crucial that they get their data and technology provisions right. But in this fast-changing part of the data ecosystem, what constitutes “right” isn’t easy to define. At A-Team Group’s second ESG Data and Tech Summit London last week, leading practitioners from the…
Video: RepRisk’s Maryse Gordon Discusses Approaches to ESG Risk Assessment
In this video, Maryse Gordon, partnerships and business development manager at RepRisk, an ESG data science firm combining machine learning and human intelligence to identify ESG risks, talks to Sarah Underwood, an editor at A-Team Group, at A-Team’s recent ESG Data & Tech Summit London. The discussion spans the challenges of ESG data, the need…