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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…
Refinitiv Focuses the Financial Crime Fight Against War Criminals
Refinitiv is taking the financial crime fight to the source, partnering with investigative and policy team The Sentry to access open-source data on African war criminals for its World-Check dataset. Co-founded by George Clooney and a strategic partner of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, The Sentry uses open-source data collection, field research, and state-of-the-art network data…
Curve Partners with Passfort on New KYB Solution
Know Your Business (KYB) is one of the buzzwords in the AML space right now and we’re seeing increasing levels of activity as solutions providers seek to develop effective automated methods of assisting clients with their onboarding needs. This week heralds the newest of these partnerships, as card consolidation platform Curve signs up with CLM…
KBC Bank chooses Finastra for LIBOR transition
KBC Bank, a Belgium-based bank with operations across Europe, US and Asia Pacific, has chosen Finastra to help manage its transition through the upcoming interbank references rates changes. It has selected Fusion Loan IQ Alternate Reference Rates (ARR) module to manage new rates and to expand its lending business. The bank has also opted for…
DTCC Releases White Paper on Managing Post-Covid Risk
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a provider of market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has released a white paper identifying key priorities where financial market infrastructures (FMIs) should focus in the coming years to proactively and effectively manage risk in a post-pandemic environment. FMIs around the globe performed remarkably well amid unprecedented market…
ATP Goes Live with SimCorp’s SFTR Solution
ATP, Denmark’s largest public pension fund, has gone live on SimCorp’s cloud-based SFTR solution. ATP’s go-live coincides with the reporting start date for the third phase of SFTR, on January 11, where it joins several SimCorp clients who have smoothly transitioned to the cloud-based regulatory reporting platform, and successfully automated reporting to their chosen Trade…
Two Golden Sources: How Will the New FCA FIRDS System Hold Up Post-Brexit?
At the end of 2020 the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lost access to the EU’s MiFID database: instead launching its own FIRDS system. It’s a big change, and it could have a significant impact on the way firms are able to manage their transaction reporting requirements. The new FCA FIRDS database was built to…
Q&A: The Future of Regulatory Reporting
Tom Wieczorek, MD of Global Product Management at UnaVista, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, gives us his unique insights into the key challenges and opportunities within today’s rapidly evolving regulatory reporting environment – and what firms should be doing to stay ahead. What are the key functional challenges for those seeking to implement…
BXS Launches Rule 606 Consolidator Tool
BXS, a New York-based compliance reporting and analytics solutions provider, has launched a new Rule 606 Consolidator tool. Available to all existing BXS customers, the new add-on provides a comprehensive view of brokers’ public Rule 606 report filings, allowing market centers to analyze how their clients and prospects are routing order flow and how their…