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Europe and ESG: Counting Down to SFDR
By Francesco Cavallini, Client Relationship Director, IQ-EQ. In its commitment to channeling private financial flows towards investments that support Paris Agreement targets – and more broadly the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the European Union adopted the European Green Deal in March 2018. Some policy initiatives within this deal specifically target the finance…
Uncovering PEPs in Fight Against Financial Crime
By Rachel Woolley, Global Director of Crime at Fenergo. Non-compliance is a costly business. Throughout 2020, financial institutions (FIs) around the globe have received $10.6 billion in enforcement actions for financial crime violations, including breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations— up 27% from last year. With the pandemic leading to…
New Compliance Solution from Plenitude Seeks to Boost Financial Crime Compliance
London-based risk and compliance specialist Plenitude this week launched a new cloud-based Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) solution called Plentitude RegSight, in a bid to clarify and streamline the complex world of FCC obligations management. In a world of increasing regulation and heightened regulatory scrutiny, the requirement for organisations to meet legal and regulatory obligations has…
Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank Chooses Fenergo for CLM Solution
The world’s first digital trade finance bank, Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB), based in the UAE, has chosen Fenergo to deploy its CLM platform. Fenergo will enable AGTB to meet its strategic objective to disrupt the trade finance market with a cloud-based, digital-first and client-centric model leveraging emerging technologies such as data analytics and API connectivity….
FCA & FRC Remind Firms Of Extended Financial Information Timelines
The FCA and FRC have issued a statement reminding companies of the measures issued in 2020 that provide more time for the work necessary to ensure that published financial information continues to be of the quality that preparers and users of financial information expect. These include allowing listed companies an additional two months to publish their audited…
EBA Announces Timing for 2021 EU-wide Stress Test Exercise
The European Banking Authority (EBA) will launch its 2021 EU-wide stress test exercise with the publication of the macroeconomic scenarios on 29 January at 18:00 CET. The EBA expects to publish the results of the exercise by July 31, 2021.
Qomply and Bovill Team Up on Regulatory Audits
Qomply, a RegTech firm specializing in transactions reporting for MiFIR, SFTR and EMIR, has joined forces with global financial services regulatory consultancy Bovill to develop an end-to-end transaction reporting service for financial institutions. Powered by Qomply’s technology, Bovill will streamline its HealthCheck services to provide clients with immediate feedback on the accuracy and completeness of…
IFRS 9 Methodology and Model Management Post Pandemic
By Mahim Mehra, Senior Risk Advisor, and Yoon Sik Ma, VP, Product Manager, AxiomSL. Complying with the credit-risk analytics and credit- impairment requirements under International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 has forced financial institutions to change how they organize, calculate, and examine their credit data. Organizations have had to reconcile data across risk, finance, and…
Coronavirus Impact Upends Company Data Disclosure
By Rosy Bitar, Head of Company Financials Data, and Brandon Emmerich, Technical Product Manager, at Bloomberg. Among Covid-19’s widespread effects, the virus has thrown a wrench into a vital process within the financial markets: the disclosure of company data that investors use to inform their positions and trades. The pandemic has altered publicly traded companies’…
A New Frontier of Regulation? Asia Takes the Lead
Asia has been home to wave of new initiatives in the RegTech space in recent years, and jurisdictions such as Hong Kong and Singapore are pushing hard to take the lead in the space as they seek to combat financial crime and gain a competitive advantage in the field. Last week, the Hong Kong Monetary…