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Upcoming Webinar: Best practices for compliance with EU Market Abuse Regulation

Date: 18 June 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) came into force in July 2016, rescinding the previous Market Abuse Directive and replacing it with a significantly extended scope of regulatory obligations. Eight years later, and amid constant change in capital markets regulation,…

EU Parliament Approves Landmark Artificial Intelligence Act

The EU Parliament has approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, marking the world’s first regulation of AI. The regulation establishes obligations for AI based on its potential risks and level of impact and is designed to ensure safety and compliance with fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability, while boosting innovation. The act…

SmartStream Reference Data Services Provides Derivatives Data for EMIR Refit

SmartStream Reference Data Services (RDS) has released an enhanced derivatives data service providing in-depth insights into futures related transactions and playing into EMIR Refit reporting requirements. EMIR Refit is geared towards enhancing transparency and stability in the OTC derivatives trading market and is set to take effect in April for Europe and September for the…

SteelEye Strengthens Presence in APAC by Incorporating in Singapore

SteelEye, provider of an integrated surveillance platform, has strengthened its footprint in Asia-Pacific (APAC) by incorporating in Singapore. This will enable closer collaboration with clients and regulatory authorities and comes at a time of heightened enforcement action by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which over the past year fined four banks and an insurer…

Duco Offers Transaction Reporting Eligibility Validator for EMIR

Duco, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) AI-powered data automation, has released a transaction reporting eligibility validator that provides an independent validation of internal eligibility rules by using field-by-field comparison of individual financial services firms’ rules versus existing ESMA eligibility requirements. The solution highlights under and overreporting using Duco’s reconciliation and exception management capabilities, and regulatory…

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…

Archer Acquisition of Compliance.ai Drives AI-Powered Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management

Compliance.ai, a San Francisco, California-based provider of AI driven regulatory change management solutions, has been acquired by Kansas headquartered risk management specialist Archer. The acquisition will enable Archer to supplement its compliance line-up with cutting-edge AI technology to automate the monitoring, tracking, reporting, and response to changing regulations in real time. Archer integrates risk and…

Cappitech Regulatory Reporting Survey Insights

By Struan Lloyd, managing director, head of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Recently, we conducted our 6th annual Cappitech Global Regulatory Reporting Survey that aims to capture the pulse of the trade and transaction reporting industry. The survey results were released at the end of 2023 and revealed that lack of resources and poor data quality…

Napier AI Plans Growth Following £45 Million Investment from Crestline Investors

Napier AI, a London-based financial crime compliance RegTech, has received a £45 million investment from US-based institutional alternative asset manager Crestline Investors. The investment will be used to accelerate Napier AI’s business expansion in coming years and enable the company to continue developing and providing financial institutions with next-generation screening and monitoring solutions powered by…

UAE Commercial Bank International Selects Bloomberg MARS for Risk Management

Commercial Bank International (CBI), a national bank in the UAE, has selected Bloomberg’s Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS) modules for counterparty risk, market risk and valuation. The bank previously adopted MARS Front Office to help its LIBOR transition. The three additional modules make MARS the bank’s primary risk management system. The MARS counterparty risk (XVA) module…