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New Year’s Resolutions: Get OTC Derivatives Reporting Fit for EMIR Refit
By Thomas Steimann, Head of Regis-TR at SIX. The OTC derivatives markets have faced a slew of new regulations since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, to which the market has continued to adapt. 2024 will be no different. The EMIR Refit is the latest in a wave of regulatory change for the derivatives markets, with…
Stephan Wolf Steps Down from Role of GLEIF CEO in June 2024
Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), will step down from the role on 24 June 2024 after a decade of leading the foundation from its start-up phase to the growing organisation it is today. In a post on LinkedIn, Wolf writes: “After a decade of incredible experiences and achievements, I…
Regulated Firms that Don’t Trust Electronic Identification Verification Risk Financial Crime
More than 36% of people in regulated firms who ‘can’t trust’ electronic identity verification technology and instead rely on manual checks are leaving their doors open to financial crime, according to research by anti-money laundering specialist SmartSearch. This statistic, from SmartSearch’s 2023 annual survey of 500 compliance stakeholders across financial, accountancy, property and legal services,…
WhatsApp Update Could Spell Unhappy New Year for Compliance Teams
By Oliver Blower, CEO of VoxSmart. While many of us will be making tough lifestyle changes this January, from adopting strict fitness regimes to cutting down on calories, there are other changes afoot in the realm of WhatsApp that could impact many of us over the coming days. For regulatory compliance teams at financial institutions…
DTIF Partners DLC Distributed Ledger Consulting to Add Crypto Risk Metrics to Digital Token Identifiers
The Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF), created by Etrading Software to provide ISO standard identifiers for digital assets based on open data principles, has reached agreement with DLC Distributed Ledger Consulting to display a crypto risk metrics score on Digital Token Identifiers (DTIs) for commonly traded tokens. The metric score, combined with the DTI standard,…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Reviews Regulatory Reporting
Resourcing and data quality management are the biggest barriers to effective, accurate and cost-effective transaction regulatory reporting, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence’s annual Global Regulatory Reporting Survey – but it’s not all bad news, with the report noting that financial markets are better prepared for regulatory changes coming in 2024 than in any previous…
Recorded Webinar: How to automate entity data management and due diligence to ensure efficiency, accuracy and compliance
Requesting, gathering, analysing and monitoring customer, vendor and partner entity data is time consuming, and often a tedious manual process. This can slow down customer relationships and expose financial institutions to risk from inaccurate, incomplete or outdated data – but there are solutions to these problems. This webinar will consider the challenges of sourcing and…
Banks’ PRIIPS Headache Set to Intensify as Capital Markets Union Regulation Ramps Up
By Kifaya Belkaaloul, head of regulatory at NeoXam. Over the past decade, the European Union has rolled out a host of new regulations aimed at fostering more competitive capital markets and mobilising private investment towards critical goals including the digital transition and climate emergency. One of the EU’s core levers for enacting change has been…
Confluence Partners Manaos to Provide SFDR Reporting Solution
Confluence Technologies, a solutions provider helping investment managers solve complex data challenges, has partnered Manaos, the investment data management platform designed and incubated by the securities services business of BNP Paribas, to provide a reporting solution for Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR). The partnership allows Confluence to provide an end-to-end SFDR solution to asset managers…
Regnology, Moody’s Analytics Join Forces for Risk/Reg Reporting Solution
Regnology has teamed with Moody’s Analytics to launch an end-to-end risk and regulatory reporting solution in select global markets. The collaboration brings together Regnology’s expertise in regulatory reporting with Moody’s Analytics’ integrated risk assessment capabilities. The combined solution offers data modelling, best-in-class calculation capabilities, extensive risk coverage and advanced analytics to achieve regulatory reporting excellence…