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Recorded Webinar: Client Experience and Onboarding For Transfer Agents: How to ensure you deliver a seamless client experience and differentiate your services
Clients expect you to seamlessly deliver a range of transfer services. They expect you to delight their investors and ensure you have a robust onboarding and compliance process in place. They also want you to help them ensure they comply with shareholding obligations and corporate actions. With digital expectations becoming ever higher, how will you…
Understanding the Importance of an Integrated Regulatory, Data and Technology Strategy
By Bradley Foster, Global Head of Content (Enterprise), Bloomberg. Regulation following the 2008 financial crisis has had a profound effect on banks and buy side firms. Banks in particular are now much better capitalized and more liquid compared to a decade ago. We have seen a wave of new investor protection and market transparency regulation…
RegTech Spending to reach $127bn by 2024, Says Juniper
New data from Juniper Research forecasts that the value of RegTech spending will exceed $127 billion by 2024, up from $25 billion in 2019. This growth will be driven by a dramatic rise in the automation of resource-intensive tasks, such as those involved in KYC (Know Your Customer) checks and increasing use of AI in…
RegTech Summit London Fast Approaching – Have You Booked Your Place?
The third annual edition of A-Team Group’s highly sought-after RegTech Summit is nearly here! On October 3, 2019 industry leaders, regulators, practitioners and providers will converge on the etc.venues at St Paul’s London to discuss the most innovative and effective approaches for building a better regulatory environment. This year is our strongest line-up yet, with…
Over 50% of Banks Not Yet Ready for SFTR, Finds Cappitech and Kaizen
A new study from regulatory reporting solutions provider Cappitech, in partnership with Kaizen Reporting, has found that 56% of banks are still only in the pre-implementation planning stages of their SFTR compliance strategy, despite a go-live first phase reporting deadline of April 2020. Even more worryingly, just 37% of the securities lending industry has started…
Refinitiv and Trulioo Partner on New Digital Identity Product for KYC
Refinitiv today launched Qual-ID, a new solution combining digital identity verification and document proofing from Trulioo with risk screening from its World Check database to help improve digital onboarding of consumers and compliance with KYC and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations around the world. The launch follows the decision earlier this year to withdraw the firm’s…
LIBOR Change Requirements Mean Major Data Challenges for Financial Firms – Are You Ready?
With the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) ceasing to exist at midnight January 1, 2022, financial services firms around the world are faced with an enormous data management challenge. LIBOR, and the interest rate curves built off of it, are used within a wide variety of financial instruments and products, including derivatives, loans, and bonds….
Luxoft Forms Strategic Alliance with Fenergo
Luxoft, a DXC Technology company, has become a Global Platinum Member of client lifecycle management (CLM) specialist Fenergo’s partner ecosystem. Luxoft will offer Fenergo’s client community members professional consulting services to enable the rapid systems integration and deployment of Fenergo’s platform and suite of digital capabilities. The Fenergo ecosystem currently consists of 300 global organisations,…
Global AML Fines Quadruple in 2019, Could Break Records
New analysis from KYC solutions provider Encompass Corporation has found that a total of $8.07 billion of anti-money laundering (AML) fines were imposed globally between January 1 to August 31 this year – approximately 4.3 times higher than the $1.87 billion handed out over the same period in 2018. Over the four months May to…
SmartStream RDU Releases SFTR Security Reference Data Service
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) has extended its offering with a cloud-based security reference data service designed to simplify and enable firms to meet the EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) requirements. SFTR requires banks and investment firms to start reporting securities financing transactions (SFTs) to a registered trade repository beginning April 14, 2020….