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EU Asserts ‘Strategic Autonomy’ in Post-Brexit Regulatory Landscape
With Brexit now ‘done’, the EU is taking stock of its regulatory environment as it settles down to life without the UK and its all-important financial capital London. The EU will spend 2022 setting out its regulatory stall as the UK seeks to differentiate itself from its former stablemates. What’s emerging is a multi-pronged regulatory…
Moody’s Boosts KYC Offerings with Acquisition of PassFort and Kompany
Moody’s Corp. has continued its foray into the regulatory and compliance segment with the acquisition of two KYC solutions providers: PassFort Ltd. and 360kompany (a.k.a. kompany). The two acquisitions are aimed at adding to Moody’s KYC, AML and counterparty risk capabilities, and are illustrative of the heating up of the beneficial ownership, sanctions and financial…
Aztec Group Adds Fenergo CLM to Technology Stack on Route to Digital Transformation
Aztec Group, a specialist in alternative asset classes, has selected Fenergo’s cloud-native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) client lifecycle management (CLM) to digitalise client and investor journeys. The solution will replace legacy systems and existing processes for client onboarding and compliance, enabling Aztec Group to onboard investors faster while improving the user, client and investor experience. The company…
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…