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SteelEye Launches RegTech Glossary

London-based regulatory compliance and data analytics firm SteelEye has published a new RegTech glossary that aims to demystify the complex language of the RegTech sector. The online guide aims to assist professionals to navigate the most common terminology, abbreviations and jargon across the evolving regulatory landscape.

KRM22 Partners with deltaconX, Raises £1m Through Share Issuance

Risk management specialist KRM22 has partnered with deltaconX, a provider of regulatory reporting services, on a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to cover regulatory reporting requirements including EMIR, FinfraG, SFTR, MiFIR and MiFID II, and REMIT. Available through KRM22’s Global Risk Platform, the application simplifies the reporting process through automation and dynamic error handling, “With a…

Simcorp Go Live with SFTR Cloud Solution

Danish investment management solutions provider Simcorp has gone live with its new SFTR cloud solution, in partnership with regulatory compliance specialist deltaconX. Forming part of Simcorp’s latest software release, the solution offers SFTR transaction reporting through the deltaconX regulatory platform. With the first wave of SFTR reporting requirements coming into force in April next year,…

Blockchain in the Fund management and Audit Industries: Could it Restore Trust?

By Nish Kotecha, Chairman and Co-founder of Finboot, and Bryan Foss, Independent Director and Visiting Professor at Bristol Business School. Not too long ago, Neil Woodford was still regularly heralded as a “superstar” manager and the “Oracle of Oxford”. How different the story is today. In mid-October, Neil Woodford announced that his Woodford Investment Management…

New ISIN/LEI Data Connection from GoldenSource

Enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource has today revealed a new data connection to support the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) initiative to link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs). The combined ANNA/GLEIF initiative was created to increase the transparency of trading exposure by…

Why Further Brexit Delay Creates Greater Reporting Uncertainty for Fund Managers

By Quinn Perrott, co-CEO of TRAction. There is a funny sense of déjà vu when it comes to the latest twist in the Brexit saga. The trouble is that whenever the can gets kicked down the road, market participants put Brexit to one side and allocate IT, process management and compliance resources elsewhere. Then, as…

Fenergo Launches Digital KYC

Fenergo today announced the launch of a new product enhancement, Digital KYC, a real-time, rules-driven, API-enabled KYC solution enabling financial institutions to automate and perpetuate KYC compliance reviews. The product works with existing client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions, automating continuous customer due diligence (CDD) reviews for low to medium-risk clients and reducing the need for…

Operational Inefficiencies Costing Banks $3.3trn: Fenergo

New research from client lifecycle management provider Fenergo reveals that slow and manual onboarding processes could lead to commercial and business banks individually losing $4.5 billion in revenue if they don’t bring their technology and systems up to date. With onboarding times rising by an average of three weeks in the last 12 months, if…

Trade and Transaction Reporting Challenges – EU Demands for US Firms

At the upcoming RegTech Summit New York, William Gates of SmartStream RDU will be enlightening us as to the current challenges around MiFID II and MiFIR for US-based firms; as well as giving a rundown of where we are (as far as anyone can really know!) with Brexit, and what the implications could be for…

US Regulators Join Global Financial Innovation Network

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have confirmed their membership of the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN). They join 46 other financial authorities, central banks, and other international organisations with the goal of fostering greater…