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KYC/AML
Know Your Customer (KYC) is a process to which financial institutions must adhere in order to comply with global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations. It requires the institution to verify the identity of its clients and to obtain detailed due diligence information in order to assess the potential risk of illegal activity. Find out more on our Knowledge Hub.
A Dive into the Detail of the Systematic Internaliser Regime Under MiFID II
The requirements of the systematic internaliser (SI) regime under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) became mandatory on September 1, 2018, meaning firms within the scope of the regulation must become SIs when they trade certain volumes in particular instruments, as set out by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). A month…
The Future of Fighting Financial Crime
Money laundering is a truly global phenomenon. The amount of illicit proceeds from criminal activity is estimated to account for 2-5 % of global GDP, yet less than 1% is seized or frozen by law enforcement in the financial system, while data protection rules impede information sharing between the public and private sector and inhibit…
Data Management Practitioners Take Increasingly Dynamic Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance continues to be a burden for data management practitioners working in capital markets, but approaches are changing as firms move towards managing reference data once for as many regulations as possible, adopt a utility model to ease the burden, or look to regtech solutions to support reporting. The ongoing challenges of compliance were…
Data Management Summit Reviews the Regulatory Landscape
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit hosted in New York City on September 20, 2018, included a lively panel discussion on the regulatory landscape and the data management response for 2018 and beyond. Eschewing the doom and gloom of many conversations about regulatory compliance, the panel, moderated by Dessa Glasser, principal at Financial Risk Group and…
Best Practices for Regulatory Reporting Efficiency
What is needed to get ready for SFTR + EMIR REFIT and how can you ensure your reporting infrastructure is ready? How can you improve the quality, consistency and standardisation of data? What are the foundations for granular data reporting and how are firms addressing the challenges of data collection? What is the potential for…
RegTech Summit Calls for Collaboration Between Vendors, Users and Regulators
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit returned to London last week with an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, lively panel discussions and an innovative regtech showcase featuring four newcomers to the market. The event also hosted numerous sponsors exhibiting leading regtech solutions and was joined by over 200 capital markets participants keen to further their knowledge of,…
Recorded Webinar: Best practices for best execution in multi-venue environments
Best execution has long sat at the foundation of trading operations across all market and practitioner types. But the introduction of more onerous best execution requirements under MiFID II has raised the bar, both in terms of dealing with fragmented markets from an operational standpoint and providing evidence of delivery on best execution policies. The…
The Evolution of the Multi-Asset Class Trading Desk
By John Greenan, CEO, Alignment Systems Over the past 30 years, the buy-side trading desk has undergone a fundamental transformation, specifically in two linked areas: automation of high-touch and low-touch trading, and the rise of multi-asset class trading. Alignment Systems worked with FactSet to document this transformation with an eye on understanding where the industry…
Recorded Webinar: Client lifecycle management: faster Onboarding, KYC, AML and GDPR processing
Are your client lifecycle management processes – including client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and most recently General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – up to the right standard for today’s pressing regulatory challenges? Early iterations of KYC and AML applications may no longer be effective from either a compliance or competitive perspective,…