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Clausematch Partners Várri Consultancy to Provide Compliance Solutions in MENA Region
Clausematch, a RegTech company offering solutions for compliance, has partnered Várri Consultancy to make compliance automation software available for small and medium enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Headquartered in Dubai, Várri provides strategy consulting, as well as risk and governance advisory services. This is London-based Clausematch’s first partnership in the…
Themis Adds Supply Chain Risk Assessment Tool
Themis, a provider of anti-money laundering software, has released a supply chain risk assessment tool that allows firms to map high-risk geographies and sectors, and possible touch points of financial crime including fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing, modern slavery and human trafficking, and bribery and corruption. The risk assessment tool helps firms visualise invisible…
Market Abuse Regulation – How to Detect and Analyse Abusive Market Transactions
A clear understanding of the business, frequent risk assessments, staff training, and a suitable surveillance system are key to compliance with Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and its equivalences. So too, are governance, board level responsibility, and a strong compliance culture across the organisation. These are just some of the findings from a recent webinar hosted…
Recorded Webinar: Market Abuse Regulation: How to Detect and Analyse Abusive Market Transactions
Market abuse is a potential problem for many financial institutions. It typically covers insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information, and market manipulation, and is often difficult to detect and report in line with regulations such as Market Abuse Regulation – or MAR, and its UK equivalent. While compliance with MAR is a challenge, non-compliance…
ESMA Goes Live with Pilot of DLT Regulatory Regime
The European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) pilot of a Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) regulatory regime, which includes the standard Digital Token Identifier (DRI), is up and running. The pilot will operate for six years, during which regulated investment firms, market operators and central securities depositories operating DLT market infrastructure will be able to apply…
International Financial Tremors Test the Robustness of the EU’s Regulatory Framework
A-Team Group recently met up with EU financial services regulatory expert, David Doyle, to get his take on the turmoil in financial markets and its impact on financial institutions. In particular, we covered the likely ramifications of recent cross-Atlantic events on EU regulatory developments in Brussels and Frankfurt. In light of the collapse of a…
SteelEye Test of ChatGPT for Market Surveillance Yields ‘Promising’ Results
SteelEye says it’s encouraged by its recent test of ChatGPT’s applicability to market surveillance, suggesting that the AI tool can support decision-making, empower compliance teams to analyse data with greater speed, and enable them to identify potential risks more effectively. SteelEye made its assessment based on a case study it conducted that involved integration of…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2023
A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2023. The awards, now in their third year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s platinum award winners include Moody’s Analytics…
Can the RegTech Segment Shrug Off the Collapse of SVB and its Collateral Damage?
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the resulting damage to confidence in the banking sector – which may have sparked the unravelling of Credit Suisse – has roiled markets globally. It’s also led to fears about the future of the FinTech and RegTech suppliers. With many suppliers in the California tech space and…
DORA – A Step in the Right Direction but it’s not a Home Run
By Monica Oravcova, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Naoris Protocol. Cryptocurrency and digital assets such as NFT’s will most definitely be strong contenders for the defining innovation of this decade. Social platforms and connected media have facilitated an exponential growth in the speed at which new technology and ideas are adopted. Growing in tandem with…