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Volker Rule Revisions Hotly Contested, But More Changes Could Be on the Way
Changes to the Volker rule announced recently by US regulators are stoking intense debate about the effect they will have on regulated institutions, the financial markets, and the US economy as a whole. The Volker rule was brought in as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which was created in response to the global financial…
SmartStream RDU Releases SFTR Security Reference Data Service
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) has extended its offering with a cloud-based security reference data service designed to simplify and enable firms to meet the EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) requirements. SFTR requires banks and investment firms to start reporting securities financing transactions (SFTs) to a registered trade repository beginning April 14, 2020….
Q&A: RegTech Firms Should Be Regulated by the FCA, Says Jane Jee
Jane Jee, CEO at Kompli-Global, has some strong views on the current challenges facing the RegTech industry, and what the regulators themselves could do to fix them. Here, she speaks candidly to RegTech Insight about her views on building a robust RegTech industry in a post-4MLD/5MLD (EU Money Laundering Directive) world. What do you consider…
Sensiple Partners with TNS to Bring its MiFID II Compliance Solution to Frankfurt’s FR2
New Jersey-based banking technology specialist Sensiple Inc has partnered with communications giant Transaction Network Services (TNS) to bring its global analytical platform Setrega to the FR2 data centre in Frankfurt, further boosting the city’s reputation as a connectivity hub. Over the next five years Sensiple anticipates Europe to be one of its biggest growth areas…
GDPR One Year On
By Nick Murphy, Associate Director, GDPR Integrated Technology and Solution, 3 Lines of Defence Consulting. A lot was written about GDPR in the press and a lot was discussed prior to go-live last year, including at the A-Team Group RegTech Insight conferences. Now just into its second year, we ask: how successful is the regulation…
Sell-Side Coverage of European Companies Plummets Post-MiFID II, Finds Cass
A new paper from Cass Business School has found that sell-side analyst coverage of European companies has dropped “significantly” since the implementation of MiFID II in January 2018 – with a whopping 334 firms losing their analyst coverage completely. The paper, entitled ‘The Effects of MiFID II on Sell-Side Analysts, Buy-Side Analysts, and Firms’, examined…
German Government Asks EU to Relax MiFID II
According to an official statement, the German government has asked the EU to ease MiFID II rules following a February 2019 consultation with investment firms and market participants that found “a great deal of discontent” – including around breadth of the provisions, the cost of implementation, the tight timeframe and inadequate coordination with other regulations….
Global RegTech Industry Tops $5bn, But More Collaboration is Needed
The global RegTech industry generated an estimated $5 billion in revenue last year, as regulatory changes and technological advancements drove a surge of new startups in the past five years – according to a new Global RegTech Industry Benchmarking Report released this week by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF). Sponsored by EY Japan…
Fenergo Appoints Louise O’Connell to New Role of Chief Customer Officer
Fenergo, a provider of digital client lifecycle management solutions (CLM) for financial institutions, continues to build its team with the appointment of Louise O’Connell to the newly created role of chief customer officer. The role is aligned with Fenergo’s strategic goal to become even more client centric and was created to drive a coordinated, client-centric…
Nice Actimize Launches AI-driven Managed Analytics Service
Financial crime management specialist Nice Actimize has expanded ActimizeWatch, its secure cloud-based managed analytics service, to its Financial Markets Compliance solutions. Leveraging its cloud-based financial crime risk management Platform-as-a-Service, X-Sight, ActimizeWatch provides scalable analytics automation and a two-prong approach that includes Model Optimization and Development Services and Anomaly Detection. Both functions are offered as overlays…