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Encompass Receives £2m Grant for AI Project
RegTech Encompass has been awarded a £2 million grant from Scottish Enterprise to develop an AI engine to accompany its KYC product offering. The funding, part of a £4.9, project, will help customers to accurately find risk relevant information about their organisations and investments, from a wide-ranging pool of data. “We have a long-standing relationship…
Recorded Webinar: Digital Investor Onboarding and Transformation for Asset Servicers and their partners
Transfer agents, fund administrators & custodians are endeavouring to deliver a better Investor Experience (IX) for their clients, seeking to differentiate their offerings and to truly deliver value adding services across the entire investor lifecycle. The race is on to stand out & better differentiate their firms, to showcase their technological onboarding & management prowess,…
Moody’s to Acquire RDC in GRC Push
Moody’s Corporation has confirmed plans to buy customer screening and KYC/AML data provider Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) for $700 million, from private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The deal continues Moody’s push into the data and compliance arena following its 2017 acquisition of BvD in a transaction valuing the company at $3 billion. It’s too early…
Financial Crime Penalties Top $36 Billion Since Financial Crisis
In December 2019, global penalties totalled $36 billion for non-compliance with Anti-Money laundering (AML), Know your Customer (KYC) and sanctions regulations, according to the latest research from client lifecycle management specialist Fenergo. Overall, financial crime violations were up by 160% over the past 15 months, while fines for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and…
Banks, Investment Firms Brace for April 14 SFTR Implementation Date
With the first implementation date looming for the EU’s Securities Finance Transaction Regulation (SFTR), banks and investment firms impacted by the April 14 live date are finalizing their preparations for this data-heavy reporting regulation To aid in those efforts – and to facilitate industry discussion around best approaches to the regulation – A-Team Group is…
Recorded Webinar: High noon for surveillance: resolving tension between the costs of false positives, challenges of calibration, and compliance
When it comes to trade surveillance, regulators want firms to do their own alert calibration, examine all alerts, and keep auditable records. Firms need to balance the real cost of false positives with the technical challenge and risk of self-calibrating and auto-calibrating, while compliance, IT and vendors have to grapple with the need for defensible…
Divergence Brings Investment Opportunity, But a Whole Myriad of Reporting Complexities
Quinn Perrott, co-CEO of TRAction. Hard to believe, but we are almost 24 hours away from the day that has been on the horizon for what seems like an eternity. Ironically, when Big Ben finally bongs at 11pm (GMT) on Friday, Brexit still does not mean Brexit. Britain may have officially left the EU treaties,…
Market Abuse Crackdown: Could your Solution Stand Up to Scrutiny?
Other regulations may have taken the spotlight in the three years since the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) came into force in July 2016, but its overarching goal of harmonised capital market transparency remains a key regulatory focus – and it would be a mistake to think that the authorities have taken their eye off…
AxiomSL Establishes Business Operations Centre in Ireland
Regulatory reporting and risk management solutions provider AxiomSL is opening a new business operations centre in the National Technology Park in Limerick, Ireland, with plans to create up to 100 jobs over the next five years. The centre will initially house technical support and product management for AxiomSL’s RegCloud offering, and is supported by the…
ComplyAdvantage Boosts Growth Plans with New COO Hire
Financial crime compliance specialist ComplyAdvantage has appointed Vatsa Narasimha as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as it continues to chart an aggressive growth strategy following last year’s successful $30 million Series B financing round (led by Index Ventures and Balderton Capital), a recent doubling of headcount, and new office openings in Singapore and…