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With First CFTC Limits Deadline Past, FundApps Urges Firms to Plan for Next Wave
Practitioners reported general readiness for the introduction last week of new CFTC rules around position limits, a decade after the regulator first floated its plans for changing them. Regulated firms are now being urged to prepare for further changes scheduled for next year, which will introduce new exchange rules and federal limits on derivatives contracts…
Basel III Reforms: ‘Heads in the Cloud’ Time for Financial Institutions
By Alexander Dorfmann, Senior Product Manager, SIX. Cast your mind back to around this time 14 years ago, when a certain investment bank’s share price nose-dived amid major concerns that its short-term liabilities were far greater than its liquid assets. That bank was Lehman Brothers, of course, and its downfall was underpinned by a fundamental…
RegTech Summit Goes Global as A-Team Launches Singapore Event in November
It’s official. Due to popular demand, A-Team Group is expanding its highly successful RegTech Summit conference series with an event in Singapore in the autumn. With lead sponsorship from Solidatus confirmed, A-Team is now formulating the agenda, recruiting speakers and discussing participation opportunities with sponsors and exhibitors. A-Team’s RegTech Summit APAC will take place on…
Refinitiv Highlights 2021 ESG Trends
Refinitiv has released its 2021 ESG Playbook: Stability and sustainability in the investment community. The annual publication explores ESG trends for the year based on conversations with 24 industry leaders. Topics featured include the development trajectory for the ESG investing industry and sustainable finance as a whole, regulatory changes, transparency in ESG reporting, quality of…
Element22 Outlines The Data Challenges and Business Opportunities of SFDR Compliance
With the first deadline of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) fast approaching on 10 March 2021, is your organisation data ready for compliance, what data management challenges are you facing, and how can these be overcome? Still more, how prepared is your organisation for the next deadline on 30 June 2021, and the…
Europe and ESG: Counting Down to SFDR
By Francesco Cavallini, Client Relationship Director, IQ-EQ. In its commitment to channeling private financial flows towards investments that support Paris Agreement targets – and more broadly the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the European Union adopted the European Green Deal in March 2018. Some policy initiatives within this deal specifically target the finance…
A New Frontier of Regulation? Asia Takes the Lead
Asia has been home to wave of new initiatives in the RegTech space in recent years, and jurisdictions such as Hong Kong and Singapore are pushing hard to take the lead in the space as they seek to combat financial crime and gain a competitive advantage in the field. Last week, the Hong Kong Monetary…
ACA Compliance Group Launches New Global ESG Practice
ACA Compliance Group (ACA) today launched a specialist global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) advisory practice, headed up by Dan Mistler, who joins ACA from ESG and environment firm, Bridge House Advisors. Sustainability and responsible investing increasingly appear on the agendas of global political leaders, regulators, and firms alike. According to President-elect Joe Biden, the U.S. will…
Two Golden Sources: How Will the New FCA FIRDS System Hold Up Post-Brexit?
At the end of 2020 the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lost access to the EU’s MiFID database: instead launching its own FIRDS system. It’s a big change, and it could have a significant impact on the way firms are able to manage their transaction reporting requirements. The new FCA FIRDS database was built to…
Brexit is Here – But Sadly, Equivalence is Not
The UK has finally left the European Union. A trade deal was wrung out at the eleventh hour, allowing the two sides to trade with zero tariffs and quotas, but the financial services industry has been left hanging – with talk of an MoU around the regulation of financial services being reached only by March…