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Get Ready For RegTech
Get ready as the second annual A-Team Group RegTech Summits are fast approaching. Held in both London and
Could Privatisation Give Dun & Bradstreet the Push It Needs to Succeed?
The $6.9 billion acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) by a consortium of private equity investors led by CC Capital and Cannae Holdings, announced this week, could herald the streamlining and modernisation of the venerable 177-year-old, publicly traded credit data specialist, according to observers. Founded in 1841 as a credit information provider, the company is…
Financial Crime Veterans Join Arachnys Board
Arachnys, a provider of customer risk intelligence in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Due Diligence (DD), has selected four new members to join its executive board in a bid to support the company’s growth strategy. The new members are Nigel Broda, previously vice president of sales at NICE…
Thomson Reuters Offers Counterparty Reference Datasets for AnaCredit Compliance
Thomson Reuters has added a module to its Verified Entity Data as a Service platform to help financial institutions comply with the counterparty reference dataset requirements of AnaCredit, a European lending regulation that comes into force in September. The European Central Bank (ECB) introduced the Analytical Credit Datasets (AnaCredit) project in 2011 to obtain detailed…
Siren Investigative Intelligence Platform Finds Favour in Financial Markets
Siren, a Galway based provider of investigative intelligence, is making headway in capital markets following a €3 million round of seed funding early this year that allowed the company to offer its semantic data investigation technology to market sectors beyond its initial target of law enforcement and including financial services and life sciences. To date,…
NorthRow Joins FCA Regulatory Sandbox
Regtech and compliance specialist NorthRow has been selected to join the fourth cohort of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s Regulatory Sandbox, an initiative launched in 2015 to provide a channel for businesses to test products and services in a controlled and customised live market environment. NorthRow (formerly Contego) delivers customer onboarding through a combination of…
IBM Watson Financial Services: Focus on the First Line of Defence
Banks are spending too much money trying to comply with big-ticket regulations because the tools they are using are not efficient enough. That is the view of IBM Watson Financial Services, which is in the process of expanding its regtech portfolio based on AI and machine learning, and covering governance, risk and compliance (GRC), financial…
Stephan Wolf Discusses this Week’s MiFID II LEI Mandate and Emerging Digital Certificates
The MiFID II mandate requiring the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) to identify parties to financial transactions came into play on Monday, causing barely a ripple in trading markets, but still posing problems in terms of lapsed LEIs – a problem that Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF), suggests could be…
Recorded Webinar: The latest on identifiers and standards in data management – LEIs, ISINs, CFI codes and more
The concept of data standardisation is gaining ground as financial firms tackle mounting regulatory requirements while seeking to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Identifiers such as Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), and classification codes such as Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI) codes, provide some standardisation to data management, particularly for…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: How to optimise data management for transaction reporting
As MiFID II hits the six-month mark, how well is your organisation handling transaction reporting? Is it ready to meet the LEI mandate that will take effect on July 3 and require all parties to transactions to have LEIs? And how is it coping with sourcing and managing ISINs required for OTC derivatives reporting? The…