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AxiomSL Expands European Presence through SKS Partnership
AxiomSL has partnered Germany’s SKS Unternehmensberatung in a move set to increase its influence in continental Europe. AxiomSL’s regulatory reporting platform is already compliant with both national and international requirements in Germany, and its collaboration with SKS, a provider of regulatory, risk and compliance management systems, is expected to enhance its market position. The firm…
Role of Regtech in Improving KYC, AML and Customer Due Diligence
The challenges of financial crime are significant and becoming harder to resolve, but advances can be made by implementing regtech solutions to improve customer onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering systems at the heart of due diligence. This podcast comes from a panel discussion at A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London. It…
The Devil is in The Data: The Role of FMIs in Providing Data Services and the Importance of a Best Practice Approach
By Tim Lind, Managing Director, Data Services at DTCC In recent years, it has been claimed that data has eclipsed oil as the world’s most valuable resource. Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) are on a constant search for ‘new oil’ and the value of data is certainly on the list of new services they are developing….
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,…