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Alacra Eases Access to Companies House Client Due Diligence Documents
Alacra has improved access to due diligence documents for UK domiciled firms by integrating the beta version of Companies House application programming interface (API) with the Alacra Compliance Enterprise (ACE) platform that provides Know Your Customer and client onboarding services. The company, recently acquired by compliance platform provider Opus, is also working with Companies House…
ICBC Standard Bank Implements Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management
ICBC Standard Bank is implementing Fenergo’s client lifecycle management solution to meet Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and customer onboarding rules and regulations, and improve operational efficiency. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) acquired a majority stake in London-based Standard Bank from South Africa’s Standard Bank Group early last year and took on…
Markit Integrates EDM with VistaOne Data Warehouse and vReporter
Markit has completed the integration of VistaOne and vReporter with its enterprise data management (EDM) software and is preparing to bring a combined EDM, data warehouse and reporting solution to market. The company acquired the VistaOne data warehouse and reporting solution as part of its acquisition of CoreOne Technologies in August 2015. It also acquired…
Nice Actimize Moves into Middle Tier Market with Cloud Based AML Solution
Nice Actimize is moving into the mid-sized financial institutions market with a cloud platform that will initially provide an anti-money laundering (AML) software-as-a-service solution and later a complete suite of financial crime applications. The AML solution, Actimize AML Essentials, is a packaged and variant version of the company’s AML enterprise software. It covers suspicious activity…
Markit Releases Due Diligence Solution for Common Reporting Standard
Markit is addressing the customer due diligence requirements of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) with a solution based on its tax and Know Your Customer (KYC) experience, and designed in conjunction with five market participants including Barclays and Brown Brothers Harriman. Essentially, CRS is a global version of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act…
IHS and Markit Merger Set to Result in Large Scale Information Business
The merger of IHS and Markit will create a large scale information provider working across the financial services, energy and transport markets, and taking advantage of cross selling opportunities within the companies’ combined customer base. What is less clear is the priority the merged company will give to financial data solutions, particularly Markit’s processing services…
Nikko Securities America Selects Fenergo to Support Regulatory Compliance
Nikko Securities America (Nikko America) is planning to implement Fenergo’s client lifecycle management software across a number of its trading desks. The implementation is focused on helping the company achieve compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know your Customer (KYC) and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regulation and will use the out-of-the-box version of Fenergo’s…
Markit Partners WorkFusion to Automate Manual Processes and Deliver Greater Value to Customers
Markit has teamed up with WorkFusion to automate some of the high volume manual processes that support its Information, Processing and Solutions business divisions. Automation is expected to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the processes, improve operational performance, reduce costs, and enable the company to deliver greater value to its customers. Markit considered building…
SimCorp Connects Its Order Manager to Bloomberg’s EMSxNET?
SimCorp and Bloomberg today announced that SimCorp’s Order Manager has joined the partnership network of Bloomberg EMSxNET, a FIX network that provides order routing to brokers connected to the Bloomberg Professional service. EMSxNET not only provides order routing facilities for SimCorp’s Order Manager customers, but also publishes trade data securely back into the customer’s Bloomberg…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Outstanding Pain Points of Solvency II Compliance
The January 2016 deadline for Solvency II compliance passed without major incident, but looks like the end of the beginning with most insurance companies and asset managers making the deadline, but many continuing to work on aspects of the regulation not only to ensure compliance, but also to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and gain…