Poor data quality has topped a list of challenges faced by fixed-income market participants in a survey by SIX.
The poll found that almost three-fifths of respondents said that issues such as mismatches in reference data, such as identifiers, or coupon details delaying settlements were the leading hurdles to smooth operations. Data integration was a problem for almost half of respondents and a third cited a lack of data transparency.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
By Sarva Srinivasan, head of global strategy and managing director at NeoXam, Americas. In most financial institutions, reconciliation has traditionally lived quietly in the background. It is often viewed as a necessary control process that ensures transactions, positions and balances match across systems and counterparties. Important, yes, but rarely considered fundamental to the business. But...
Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook. We trust you’ll find this guide a useful addition to the resources at your disposal as you navigate the maze of emerging regulations that are making ever more strenuous reporting demands on financial institutions everywhere. In putting the Handbook together, our rationale has been...
