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Recorded Webinar: The future of KYC and AML: How to tackle the challenges and gain the opportunities of perpetual KYC

Perpetual Know Your Customer (or pKYC) could be a game changer for client onboarding, due diligence and financial crime compliance. Moving on from today’s reactive approach that conducts client KYC processes at onboarding and typically at one, three and five year intervals, pKYC takes a proactive approach, creating a digital KYC profile and dynamically refreshing…

Top 6 Use Cases for AI in RegTech

As artificial intelligence’s influence on regtech continues to grow, so does the importance of minimising algorithm bias and maximising data quality. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in RegTech is playing an increasingly important role and helping to reshape risk and regulatory compliance. It can offer many benefits and we outline the…

Encompass Plans Global Growth Acceleration Following £25 Million Funding Round

Encompass, a provider of automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has completed a capital raise of £25 million. The funds will be used to accelerate global growth, particularly in the US where the company opened its first office in New York in October 2021, and in Europe where an office was recently opened in Amsterdam….

SmartStream Combines Air, RDU to Offer Comprehensive Transaction Reporting for MiFID II

SmartStream Technologies has combined its SmartStream RDU reference data utility with its SmartStream Air (Artificial Intelligence Reconciliations) solution to create a new offering that provides regulated entities with comprehensive reporting capabilities for MiFID II. The new solution – Transaction Reporting Reconciliation and Reporting Decision Control – aims to address regulators’ growing requirement for completeness and accuracy…

Recorded Webinar: FRTB: What still needs to be done before the global deadline of January 2023?

While implementation of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation has been delayed twice for reasons first of complexity and second of the coronavirus pandemic, the final deadline of January 1, 2023 is less than a year away. For banks in scope of the regulation, the time to put necessary risk infrastructure and data…

Everything You Need to Know About the EU Whistleblowing Directive

It is widely acknowledged that employees who report misconduct within their organisations play a key role in exposing breaches and preventing similar incidents from happening in the future. However, potential whistleblowers are often discouraged from reporting their concerns or suspicions for fear of retaliation. In this context, the European Union deemed it necessary to provide…

Need for Regulatory Clarity on Digital Assets Emerges as Key Theme at A-Team’s TradingTech Summit

The need for regulatory clarity emerged as the issue most needing resolution before institutions fully embrace the world of digital assets, delegates at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit in London heard. The TradingTech Summit saw a welcome return to the physical world this week, following last year’s break due to the Covid-induced lockdown. The event was…

Sanctions Against Russia Mean Screening is More Vital than Ever

By Collette Allen, Client Services Director, SmartSearch. Firms should take action to review their due diligence and sanctions screening procedures to avoid falling foul of extensive new and emerging sanctions against Russia. The wide-ranging sanctions imposed so far by Western nations include restrictions against individuals, entities and their subsidiaries, and the introduction of legislation to…

Suffolk Building Society Adopts TruNarrative for Financial Crime Mitigation

Suffolk Building Society has opted to start using TruNarrative’s platform for real-time financial crime decisioning and risk rating, in a move which the UK mutual says will significantly improve the efficiency and speed of onboarding new mortgage customers. Acquired by LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2021, TruNarrative is UK based regtech which has developed a unified…

Operational Resilience Ranks High on Regulators’ List of Concerns

Increased regulatory scrutiny of operational resilience in capital markets is forcing firms to take a more proactive approach to maintaining critical business functions. Continuity planning inevitably comes into focus during major events such as a global pandemic. But regulators’ concerns around the prevalence of other incidents – from ransomware attacks to natural disasters – have…