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Fenergo Addresses Financial Crime Surge with FinCrime Risk Solution
Know Your Customer (KYC) and client lifecycle management (CLM) specialist Fenergo has introduced FinCrime Risk, a SaaS-based solution for automating risk assessment processes and streamlining anti-money laundering (AML) compliance across all business lines and geographical locations. The SaaS-based solution allows financial institutions to conduct risk assessments for clients and counterparties as they attempt to address…
ISDA Adds Flagship FX Definitions and Documents to MyLibrary Digital Documentation Platform
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has added its flagship foreign exchange definitions and related annexes, supplements and templates to the ISDA MyLibrary electronic documentation platform. The move streamlines access to these documents for regulated firms, creating significant operational efficiencies, and represents a key step toward automation. The new additions include ISDA’s 1998 FX and Currency…
ESG Data Handbook 2022
The ESG landscape is changing faster than anyone could have imagined even five years ago. With tens of trillions of dollars expected to have been committed to sustainable assets by the end of the decade, it’s never been more important for financial institutions of all sizes to stay abreast of changes in the ESG data…
Machine-Executable Regulations Promise Improved Data Quality and Efficiency in Reporting
Ensuring data quality for regulatory reporting is an ongoing headache for many financial institutions, but solutions that could ease the pain are emerging. We talk to Sassan Danesh, a member of the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) management team, about approaches to regulatory data quality issues using machine-executable validation rules ahead of his keynote at next…
RegTech Insight – Cybersecurity
Pandemic restrictions are finally easing in many parts of the world. But financial institutions across the board continue to feel the effects of remote and home working on their vulnerability to cyberattack, with incidents ranging from data breaches and stolen data, to disruption to key activities like trading, settlement and payments. That’s bad news, since…
MiFID II Hampers Competition in Research Provision, Substantive Survey Finds
Competition in the marketplace for the provision of investment research has been weakened by MiFID II as buy-side firms lean more heavily on their core brokers. That’s the finding of a recent survey of 40 investment managers by research analytics provider Substantive Research. The Substantive Survey, which set out to identify recent research pricing trends…
Energy Firm Vitol Deploys Relativity Trace to Combat Market Abuse
Energy and commodity trading company Vitol has deployed Chicago-based Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform, Relativity Trace, to proactively detect regulatory misconduct. Relativity Trace’s alerting capabilities can help reduce false positives, with Vitol experiencing a 92% reduction on false positive alerting, according to Relativity. Vitol implemented Relativity Trace in just under four months. The system is now used…
Many Firms Are Not Data-Ready for SFDR Level 2
Many financial institutions have yet to grasp the data implications of the European Union’s ESG reporting regulations, while others are scrambling to put in place processes to comply with the developing set of disclosure rules. Read the full story on ESG Insight here.
ESMA Proposes Amendments to MiFIR Transparency Requirements
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has proposed targeted amendments to some of its Regulatory Technical Standards, essentially RTS 1 and RTS 2, which specify Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) transparency requirements for equity and non-equity. The amendments aim to clarify, improve and simplify the transparency regime for equity and non-equity instruments. The…
SmartSearch Releases High-Risk Country Report Service in Response to Sanctions Against Russia
SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering (AML) specialist, has released a high-risk country report service in response to the introduction of sanctions against Russia. The service enables regulated businesses to scan existing clients and check for residency or citizenship in Russia, Belarus, or any other high-risk countries. The reporting tool instantly checks all clients that the regulated business has…