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A-Team Extends, Expands and Releases 2021/2022 Edition of Regulatory Data Handbook
Don’t miss the latest edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a publication dedicated to helping you gain a full understanding of regulations related to your organisation from the details of requirements to best practice implementation. The 2021/2022 handbook covers more than 40 regulations, providing you with a detailed description of each regulation including its…
Privacy Enhancing Technologies – A Game Changer?
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) hold promise for financial institutions as a means of collaborating on customer data while ensuring its privacy and security. Use cases include measuring the quality of KYC data in a peer group, sharing suspicious activity reports, and bringing together transaction data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) purposes. As well as supporting these…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2021/2022 – Ninth Edition
Welcome to the ninth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a publication dedicated to helping you gain a full understanding of regulations related to your organisation from the details of requirements to best practice implementation. This edition of the handbook includes a focus on regulations being rolled out to bring order and standardisation to…
IHS Markit Automates Fund Onboarding While Ensuring KYC/AML Compliance
IHS Markit has launched Investor Onboarding, which allows fund administrators and investment managers to automate and centralise their client onboarding while meeting AML, KYC and tax-related compliance obligations. The fully hosted platform – an industry first according to IHS Markit – digitises and streamlines collection and creation of subscription, AML, KYC and tax documents for…
Asia-Pacific Practitioners Gear Up for A-Team’s RegTech APAC Conference This Week
This week sees the first ever A-Team RegTech Summit for the Asia-Pacific region. Building on the success of A-Team’s RegTech Summit conferences in London and New York over the past four years, this virtual event is the first of what’s expected to be a series of events in the region, including in-person conferences when appropriate. RegTech…
KPMG Adopts Quantexa CDI to Help Clients Combat Financial Crime
KPMG will deploy Quantexa’s Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI) platform to help clients combat growing financial crime. By applying Quantexa’s contextualisation capabilities to clients’ data sets, the KPMG solution will allow customers to identify potentially damaging relationships between people, places and organisations, thereby offering protection against fraud, money laundering and terrorist and other illicit financing activities….
Monetary Authority of Singapore Plans Shared Data Platform to Combat Money Laundering
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) plans to introduce a digital platform and enabling regulatory framework that will allow financial institutions to share data on customers and transactions with the aim of preventing money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing – a means of raising, moving or making available financing, funds, assets or other economic…
How Blockchain Can Help Reduce the Threat of Trade-Based Money Laundering
By Henry Roxas, Head of Trade Finance, R3. The amount of money laundered globally in a single year has been estimated at as much as $2 trillion. Despite billions of dollars of investment in preventative measures, financial institutions are only managing to intercept less than 0.1% of illicit funds. Evidently, money laundering is a booming…
Recorded Webinar: Adverse media screening – how to cut exposure to criminal activity, from money laundering to human trafficking
Screening for adverse media coverage of counterparties presents an incredible opportunity for financial institutions to limit risk exposures and identify bad actors early. It is required by regulations such as the EU’s sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AML 6), and is one of the most effective ways to steer clear of potential connections with sanctioned activity…
ACA Group Adds e-Comms Surveillance with Catelas Acquisition
ACA Group’s acquisition of e-comms surveillance specialist Catelas is the latest step in its bid to create a comprehensive solution designed to meet all the needs of compliance professionals based on its Compliance Alpha platform. Catelas boosts ACA’s capabilities in the surveillance area, and brings with it a host of major clients allowing ACA to…