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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2017 A-Team Group DMR Awards
A-Team Group announced the winners of its Data Management Review (DMR) Awards at a well-attended ceremony at Merchant Taylors’ Hall today. The awards are designed to recognise leading players providing data management solutions and services to capital markets participants. See complete list of awards and winners below. The DMR awards are now in their fifth…
A-Team Group Reveals Winners of Inaugural RegTech Awards
The winners of A-Team Group’s inaugural RegTech Awards have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best data management solution for regulatory compliance to best innovative solutions for specific regulations, best reference data for regulatory compliance, best trade surveillance solution, best voice and mobile messaging solution, and the most innovative…
Domus Semo Sancus Adds AI to RegTech Solution for KYC and AML
We talked to E. Jay Saunders, chairman and CEO of Domus Semo Sancus (DSS), about the challenges of KYC And AML and the DSS SafteyNet.ai regtech solution, ahead of tomorrow’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York. At the event, Saunders will join a panel of expert speakers that will discuss how…
Thomson Reuters Adds to DataScope Reference Data to Support MiFID II
Thomson Reuters has extended the reference data on its DataScope platform to help firms comply with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) requirements. Ahead of the January 3, 2018 MiFID II compliance deadline, Thomson Reuters has added extra information on equities, warrants, options, futures, commodities, funds, government and corporate bonds, collateralised mortgage obligations…
Thomson Reuters Reports the Impact of RegTech on Compliance
Thomson Reuters will release the results of its second global survey assessing the impact of regtech and fintech on the role of compliance in financial services firms at this week’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York. The survey included compliance and risk practitioners from nearly 800 financial services firms across the…
Do It Once, Do It Right
By Bill Hodash and Eugene Ing, DTCC Next year will mark a decade since the financial crisis. Since then, a wave of regulatory reforms has been implemented to increase the transparency and resiliency of the financial system, including the mandate to use legal entity identifiers (LEIs) across many jurisdictions. The goal is to ensure that…
Challenging the Barriers to RegTech Adoption
Management buy-in, cultural change and legacy systems can be barriers to the adoption of regtech, although the barriers are beginning to lower as regtech solutions show potential to fulfil business use cases and provide cost benefits. In the run-up to A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets on November 16, 2017 in New York, we…
Brickendon Proposes a Five-Pronged Approach to GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a game changer, requiring firms to identify, manage and provide access to individuals’ personal data. Are firms up to speed on meeting the regulation’s May 2018 compliance deadline, or is there still some way to go? Ahead of a panel session on GDPR at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for…
Recorded Webinar: How to get entity, hierarchy and relationship data right
The demand for entity, hierarchy and relationship data continues to rise, not only in response to regulatory requirements, but also as a result of greater business understanding of the value of the data to identify counterparties, risk and potential opportunity. The webinar will discuss the requirement for entity, hierarchy and relationship data, how to source…
Meeting Client and Counterparty Identity Requirements Under MiFID II
The January 3, 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, requiring firms within its scope to ensure they have access to LEIs to identify all clients, counterparties and issuers they deal with. As the industry mantra goes, and in line with MiFID II and its related Markets…