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Plenitude Acquires Contineo Financial Risk Solutions in Strategic Move

Plenitude Consulting has marked what it terms a pivotal moment in its journey with minority investor Global Capital Partners (GCP) by acquiring Contineo Financial Risk Solutions, a specialist Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) technical and advisory services provider. The acquisition is aimed at strengthening Plenitude’s position as a tech advisor and implementation services provider for AI-enabled…

Ex-BoFE Haldane’s Headache Amplifies Banking’s PEPplexity

By Rory Doyle, Head of Financial Crime Policy at Fenergo. Just when you thought the drama was over after the Nigel Farage-Coutts saga, along comes another high-profile figure to re-shine a spotlight on a problem that refuses to disappear. Andy Haldane, a former bigwig at the Bank of England, is the latest to be denied a…

Saifr Extends AI-Powered Marcomms Content Compliance Solution

Saifr has extended the functionality of its suite of marketing compliance capabilities to detect comparison, ranking, and rating claims; performance claims made about investment options; testimonials; and references to tax-free or tax-exempt income. Additionally, expanded AI models for marketing optimisation can determine grade-level readability.  These features join Saifr’s existing compliance suite, which flags promissory, misleading,…

Recorded Webinar: How to leverage Generative AI and Large Language Models for regulatory compliance

Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) offer huge potential for change across capital markets, not least in regulatory compliance where they have the capability to help firms understand and interpret regulations, automate compliance, monitor transactions in real time, and flag anomalies in the same timeframe. They also present challenges including explainability, responsibility, model…

FinScan Launches Sanctioned Securities Screening

FinScan, the Pittsburgh-based division of Innovative Systems, Inc. has released FinScan Securities adding sanctioned financial instrument screening to its AML and KYC solutions.  Screening for sanctioned securities is an increasingly challenging requirement. Data identifying ultimate beneficial ownership is difficult to source and integrate and the number of securities and entities subject to sanctions continues to…

Droit and FINBOURNE Partner to Produce Position Reporting Solution

Droit, a provider of computational law and regulation, is partnering FINBOURNE Technology, a provider of cloud-based investment data management software, to deliver an end-to-end position reporting solution. The integration embeds Droit’s Position Reporting product that delivers determination of reporting obligations based on consensus interpretations of requirements from Endoxa, a consortium of six global financial institutions,…

A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2024

A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2024. The awards 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 with a focus on data management, trading technology, RegTech or ESG. This year’s…

Top 20 e-Comms Surveillance Providers 2024

Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against a registered investment adviser for widespread and longstanding failures to maintain and preserve certain electronic communications; the matter was settled for $6.5 million. This case is notable because it is the first time the SEC has brought charges against an RIA with no ties…

R3 and Quant Selected to Develop Prototype for UK’s Regulated Liability Network

R3 and Quant have been chosen to create the technology prototype for the UK’s Regulated Liability Network (RLN) experimentation phase, an initiative led by UK Finance and supported by EY. This project aims to establish a unified platform facilitating various financial transactions using tokenised and traditional commercial bank deposits. The RLN will serve as a…

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance Deploys Generative AI to Transform Due Diligence

Dow Jones Risk & Compliance has launched an AI-powered research platform to help clients reduce the time and effort in building investigative due diligence reports from multiple sources. The new offering aims to reshape compliance workflows, creating an additional layer of investigation that can be deployed at scale. Dow Jones Integrity Check is an automated…