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Recorded Webinar: Moving Regulatory Data to the Cloud: A Use Case Discussion
Migrating risk and regulatory reporting data to the cloud is turning out to be one of the hottest trends for 2020 – but not everyone is getting it right, and there are pitfalls to be avoided as well positive outcomes to be achieved. Especially in today’s remote working world, financial firms are facing the challenge…
Shield Launches New Solution to Detect Market Abuse
Specialist RegTech provider Shield has launched a new solution that combines its Insider Trading and Information Handling models. The enhanced platform, INSIDERS, is designed to meet the growing market demand for improved surveillance to accompany increased remote working in the new post-Covid normal. Firms are coming under unprecedented pressure to monitor all relevant communication channels, whilst…
Buy-and-Build Pioneer Thoma Bravo to Acquire AxiomSL
As we suggested a few weeks ago, AxiomSL was indeed up for sale – and it looks like Chicago-based private equity firm Thoma Bravo has won the race, with news this week that the firm has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in AxiomSL for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close by the end…
Calling All Start-Ups: Do You Have What It Takes?
There’s only a month to go until the RegTech Summit Virtual 2020 kicks off, and with a brand new livestreaming format this year to showcase five days of intensive, cutting edge discussions around the most compelling issues facing the RegTech Industry today, we’re expecting our biggest audience yet. And we want you to be a…
A-Team Group Releases Regulatory Data Handbook 2020/2021
A-Team Group releases the eighth edition of its ‘best read’ publication, the Regulatory Data Handbook, today. The handbook is a ‘must have’ for capital markets participants, is free of charge, and profiles every regulation that impacts capital markets’ data management practices. Linda Coffman, executive vice president at The SmartStream Reference Data Utility, leads the handbook…
Refinitiv Acquires The Red Flag Group to Boost ESG, Supply Chain Capabilities
Refinitiv last week acquired The Red Flag Group, a Hong Kong-based global integrity and compliance risk firm specializing in enhanced due diligence and onboarding technologies across a range of industries. Its addition should significantly expand Refinitiv’s suite of due diligence offerings to help its corporate compliance customers better evaluate money laundering, bribery and corruption, reputational and ESG…
The Global Outlook for Regulatory Compliance – Where Are We Headed?
Are you ready for our upcoming RegTech Summit Virtual 2020? We’re so excited to bring you yet another action-packed online event, running over five days with a brand new livestream to make our content even more immediate. The first day kicks off with a deep-dive look at the global perspective for regulatory compliance and RegTech…
RegulAItion Signs Up Open Data Institute for New AIR Platform
Data platform company RegulAItion has confirmed the Open Data Institute (ODI) as a key partner in the development of its new AIR Platform, a cross-sector data initiative hoping to revolutionise the fight against financial crime. Announced in July 2020, the AIR Platform promises to transform the way in which data is accessed by regulated industries, providing…
Morgan Stanley Slapped with $10m in Fines
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has issued Morgan Stanley with a $5 million penalty, citing violations of Regulation SHO, the regulation governing short sales. “Morgan Stanley hedged synthetic exposure to swaps by purchasing or selling the securities referenced in the swaps, and it separated its hedges into two aggregation units—one holding only long positions,…
ESMA Appoints New Chair of CCP Supervisory Committee
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has formally appointed Klaus Löber as Chair of the CCP Supervisory Committee and Nicoletta Giusto and Froukelien Wendt as Independent Members. “The new organisational set-up of the CCP Supervisory Committee will strengthen ESMA’s role in enhancing the safety and efficiency of CCPs both…