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.
The data management challenges of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are significant and must be tackled soon to ensure compliance in just over a year on 25 May 2018. The regulation makes many extensions to existing European data privacy rules, adds new obligations and pitches fines for non-compliance at up to 4% of turnover. Listen...
Reporting by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Reuters has exposed the scale of A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network that allegedly moved $6.9 billion through global banks using front companies and forged documents. FinCEN’s subsequent findings describe a wider operation whose overseas sub-agents processed more than $17 billion between January 2025 and June 2026,...
A-Team Group, organisers of the TradingTech Summits, are pleased to announce that the second ExchangeTech Summit London will take place in May 2027. This dedicated forum brings together operators of exchanges, alternative execution venues and digital asset platforms with the ecosystem of vendors driving the future of matching engines, surveillance and market access.
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material...