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Identifying and Verifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners: Getting the Full Picture, Fast
By Paul Charmatz, Managing Director, encompass The increasing burden of identifying and verifying ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) of entities is a challenge faced by all regulated firms. However, Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations that enforce corporate transparency by identifying UBOs can reduce the risk of corruption and the cost of compliance. Firms undertaking appropriate due…
Testing Times for Algo Trading
When the EU’s wide-ranging Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) regulation came into force on January 3, 2018, traders did their best to deliver on its transparency demands and ensure they provided best execution on every trade in Europe, across all asset classes. But in justifying their actions to regulators and clients, firms…
Axiomsl Partners Genpact to Offer Automated Risk Modelling for IFRS 9
AxiomSL has partnered Genpact, a professional services firm providing digital transformation, to automate and execute bespoke models for IFRS 9, the International Financial Reporting Standard that addresses accounting for financial instruments. The solution industrialises the risk modelling process and combines all the building blocks and calculation flows for IFRS 9 in an end-to-end process. The…
Elixirr and Kaizen Partner to Deliver Regulatory Reporting Remediation Solutions
Elixirr and Kaizen have partnered to deliver an end-to-end regulatory reporting remediation service for financial institutions. The firms, Elixirr a consultancy and Kaizen a regulatory reporting assurance specialist, will offer clients assurance testing, governance and support for trade and transaction reporting remediation projects. Kaizen’s ReportShield solution checks every item of transaction data for accuracy and…
Highlights of A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit
Last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit covered hot topics from the evolution of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role to the unfinished business of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), the outstanding data management challenges of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the potential of technologies including cloud, machine learning and artificial…
Data Management Summit Innovation Showcase Presents The Investment Data Utility
Join us tomorrow at our London Data Management Summit to find out how to make data an opportunity rather than a risk, what still needs to be done to ensure Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) compliance, how to make the most of alternative data and next generation analytics, the latest technologies adding…
Recorded Webinar: Best practice data governance for GDPR compliance
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, 2018, replacing and extending data privacy rules set down in 1995. This time around, the key to successful implementation is strong and sustainable data governance. The webinar will discuss the role of data governance in GDPR compliance, explore best practice implementation, and detail how…
GDPR is Coming – Do You Need to Find the Location of Personal Data in Your ERP and CRM Systems?
By: Roland Bullivant, Silwood Technology The EU’s new rules on data protection enshrined in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) come into force in May 2018. They fortify the rights of citizens over their own data and put more obligations on organisations of sizes to manage and protect that personal data. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office…
Recorded Webinar: Leveraging data analytics for added value
Data analytics are embedded in financial services firms, supporting tasks such as customer satisfaction monitoring and regulatory compliance. They are also becoming more sophisticated, with solutions such as predictive, real-time and Big Data analytics delivering more detailed actionable insights at speed. The webinar will discuss the potential of data analytics and how best they can…
United Overseas Bank Selects NeoXam to Support FRTB And BCBS 239
Singapore’s United Overseas Bank has selected NeoXam’s DataHub to support group-wide data management and compliance with regulatory requirements of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) and risk data aggregation and reporting under BCBS239. Lim Ann Liat, head of markets and enterprise technology, group technology and operations at United Overseas Bank, says: “One of…