Specialist fintech investor Motive Partners has announced the acquisition of a controlling interest in Lucht Probst Associates (LPA), a German software provider founded in 1999 which focuses on regulatory compliance for capital markets and wealth management, as well as providing strategic advice and implementation services. Motive will support LPA in accelerating the company’s growth, including product development, international expansion, and strategic hiring.
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...
Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) has gained momentum as the industry looks to replace fragmented, firm-specific interpretations of reporting rules with a shared, machine-executable model that consistently links regulatory requirements to the data used to fulfil them. Rather than relying on templates, local mappings and bespoke logic embedded deep within legacy systems, DRR provides a common...
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.
Client onboarding is central to the success of banks, yet it continues to present challenges and the benefits of getting it right are difficult to achieve. The challenges arise from siloed systems, manual processes and poor entity data quality. The potential benefits of successful implementation include excellent client experience, improved client acquisition and loyalty, new business opportunities, reductions in costs, competitive advantage, and confidence in compliance.
