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Ex-BoFE Haldane’s Headache Amplifies Banking’s PEPplexity
By Rory Doyle, Head of Financial Crime Policy at Fenergo. Just when you thought the drama was over after the Nigel Farage-Coutts saga, along comes another high-profile figure to re-shine a spotlight on a problem that refuses to disappear. Andy Haldane, a former bigwig at the Bank of England, is the latest to be denied a…
FinScan Launches Sanctioned Securities Screening
FinScan, the Pittsburgh-based division of Innovative Systems, Inc. has released FinScan Securities adding sanctioned financial instrument screening to its AML and KYC solutions. Screening for sanctioned securities is an increasingly challenging requirement. Data identifying ultimate beneficial ownership is difficult to source and integrate and the number of securities and entities subject to sanctions continues to…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2024
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2024. The awards celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets with a focus on data management, trading technology, RegTech or ESG. This year’s…
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance Deploys Generative AI to Transform Due Diligence
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance has launched an AI-powered research platform to help clients reduce the time and effort in building investigative due diligence reports from multiple sources. The new offering aims to reshape compliance workflows, creating an additional layer of investigation that can be deployed at scale. Dow Jones Integrity Check is an automated…
Corporater Unveils Business Process Management for Enhanced GRC and Performance Management (GPRC)
Corporater, a global leader in software solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Performance Management (jointly addressed as GPRC), is proud to announce the launch of a new Business Process Management Engine. First introduced in the Nordic market, this significant functional addition is now available globally. Digital GRC programs are being challenged by evolving…
Global Screening Services Raises $47 Million, Moves into Operational Phase
Global Screening Services (GSS), a provider of transaction screening, has completed a Series A2 funding round raising over $47 million (£37 million). The investment will support the London-based company’s transition from a development to operational phase as its cloud-native platform prepares to go live with inaugural clients. Originally incubated by AlixPartners, GSS tackles the complexity…
SmartSearch Sets Growth Plans Following Investment from Triple Private Equity
SmartSearch, a UK provider of digital compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) software, has received a large investment from Triple Private Equity. The private equity firm will gain a majority share in SmartSearch and work with the company to support its core markets and continued expansion following the release of its latest technology platform last year….
Best Practice Approaches to Trade Surveillance for Market Abuse
In 2023, Openmarkets Australia was fined the largest ever penalty imposed by the?Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) of $4.5 million. Among other observations, the regulators noted that Openmarkets had not appropriately calibrated its post-trade surveillance system and that this resulted in an unmanageable volume of alerts, most of which were not reviewed. “This outcome…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of RegTech Insight Awards APAC 2024
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards APAC 2024. The awards are designed to recognise excellence in RegTech solutions and services, and focus on vendors providing exceptional offerings to capital markets participants in APAC. The winners of the awards were announced on 6 March 2024. This year’s RegTech Insight Awards APAC…
Recorded Webinar: Best practice approaches to trade surveillance for market abuse
Breaches of market abuse regulation can lead to reputational damage, eye-watering fines and, ultimately, custodial sentences of up to 10 years. Internally, market abuse triggers scrutiny of traders and trading behaviours; externally it can undermine confidence in markets and cause financial instability. This webinar will discuss market abuse of different types, such as insider trading…