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Shield Launches New Solution to Detect Market Abuse
Specialist RegTech provider Shield has launched a new solution that combines its Insider Trading and Information Handling models. The enhanced platform, INSIDERS, is designed to meet the growing market demand for improved surveillance to accompany increased remote working in the new post-Covid normal. Firms are coming under unprecedented pressure to monitor all relevant communication channels, whilst…
Calling All Start-Ups: Do You Have What It Takes?
There’s only a month to go until the RegTech Summit Virtual 2020 kicks off, and with a brand new livestreaming format this year to showcase five days of intensive, cutting edge discussions around the most compelling issues facing the RegTech Industry today, we’re expecting our biggest audience yet. And we want you to be a…
A-Team Group Releases Regulatory Data Handbook 2020/2021
A-Team Group releases the eighth edition of its ‘best read’ publication, the Regulatory Data Handbook, today. The handbook is a ‘must have’ for capital markets participants, is free of charge, and profiles every regulation that impacts capital markets’ data management practices. Linda Coffman, executive vice president at The SmartStream Reference Data Utility, leads the handbook…
The Global Outlook for Regulatory Compliance – Where Are We Headed?
Are you ready for our upcoming RegTech Summit Virtual 2020? We’re so excited to bring you yet another action-packed online event, running over five days with a brand new livestream to make our content even more immediate. The first day kicks off with a deep-dive look at the global perspective for regulatory compliance and RegTech…
RegulAItion Signs Up Open Data Institute for New AIR Platform
Data platform company RegulAItion has confirmed the Open Data Institute (ODI) as a key partner in the development of its new AIR Platform, a cross-sector data initiative hoping to revolutionise the fight against financial crime. Announced in July 2020, the AIR Platform promises to transform the way in which data is accessed by regulated industries, providing…
ESMA Releases Long-Awaited Third-Country Draft Rules
ESMA this week published its final report containing draft rules for third-country firms providing investment services in the EU under the MIFIR and MiFID II regimes. The document should provide some long-awaited clarity around the ability of third-country firms to operate in Europe – including, of course, the UK, upon its final departure from the…
Are the Complexities of the New IFR Regime to Investment Firms as Kryptonite is to Superman?
By Richard Moss, Global Product Manager, Capital, AxiomSL. Even though investment firms have very different primary business models and risk profiles as opposed to lending institutions, to date, for regulatory purposes many have been considered credit institutions and accordingly report under the Basel-driven capital requirements regulation (CRR). The CRR approach is too broad to effectively…
New Solutions Emerge to Help Firms Address SRD2 Issues
A surge of new solutions is emerging to help firms meet the data challenges of Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD2), which came into force on September 3, 2020 despite pleas from the industry for a delay due to Covid-19 pressures. “We ask you to consider, as a matter of urgency, a delay in the implementation…
LIBOR is Ending – But Most Firms Aren’t Ready, Finds Numerix
The decommission of LIBOR is making a huge imprint on the global financial services sector. The transition from LIBOR to alternative reference rates could be the largest financial engineering project the world has ever seen. So what are financial institutions are doing to prepare for the switch to alternative reference rates, and how far along…
ESMA Yet Again Postpones CSDR Settlement Discipline
In the wake of the UK’s Chancellor Rishi Sunak rejecting the EU’s Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) settlement discipline regime as part of its adoption of EU regulations post-Brexit, it looks as if the European regulator too is now having second thoughts. Last week, ESMA published a final report on the draft technical standards of…