STOXX, the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group, has registered with ESMA as a benchmark administrator under the European Union’s Benchmark Regulation (BMR). The regulation was introduced by the EU following the high profile LIBOR manipulation scandals of 2012, and came into force in January 2018. Benchmark rate users have until January 1, 2020 to use non-authorised EU benchmarks or until December 31, 2021 to use third-party (non-EU) benchmarks.
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...
Hugo Chamberlain is the chief commercial officer of UK-based smartKYC, which has been automating the KYC process since 2014. Data Management Insight spoke to Hugo to find out how the company is helping financial institutions streamline their onboarding processes. Data Management Insight: Hello Hugo. When was smartKYC created and how does it serve financial institutions?...
Following the success of the 15th Data Management Summit NYC, A-Team Group are excited to announce our new event: AI in Data Management Summit NYC!
After what looked like a slow start to the summer, the initiative to establish a global standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) took a series of significant leaps forward during August, that appears to have put the project firmly back on track. If the marketplace felt a little reticent in June and July, it could...
