Identity verification specialist Melissa has launched Melissa KYC, a mobile-based unified compliance toolset providing end-to-end identity verification including ID card and document authentication, biometrics, and liveness confirmation. The app claims to capture identity documentation in under three minutes using facial recognition technology, while its verification feature uses real-time, multi-sourced data to authenticate each submission.
In a world where the financial landscape is perpetually evolving, 2023 has brought widespread discussions around liquidity, regulatory shifts in the EU and UK, and advancements like the consolidated tape in Europe. For the year ahead in 2024, the European market is poised for transformative changes that will influence the future of trading technology and...
Sanctions screening in capital markets and treasury extends beyond conventional checks on payments, people and legal entities. Firms need to identify exposure inside securities, issuers, funds (including ETFs), indices, structured products, derivatives and custody positions. They also need to track changes as sanctions regimes, ownership structures and instrument composition shift. That creates a different control...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
It’s hard to believe that as early as the 2009 Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh the industry had recognised the need for greater transparency as part of a wider package of reforms aimed at mitigating the systemic risk posed by the OTC derivatives market. That realisation ultimately led to the Dodd Frank Act, and...