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Recorded Webinar: Proactive RegTech approaches to fighting financial crime
Financial crime is a global problem that costs the economy trillions of dollars a year, despite best efforts by financial services firms, regulators, and governments to stem the flow. As criminals become more sophisticated in how they commit financial crime, so too must capital markets participants working to challenge criminality and secure the global financial…
Corlytics Clausematch Teams with Braithwate for MiCA Compliance
Corlytics Clausematch has partnered with Braithwate, a regulatory consultancy focused on digital assets, to address the growing need for automated, transparent, and efficient regulatory compliance procedures among firms active in cryptocurrency markets. The alliance follows ESMA’s recent release of the second consultation package for the EU’s upcoming Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation. The partners…
Derivatives Service Bureau Hits Deadline of 16 October 2023 with Go-Live of UPI Service
The Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) Unique Product Identifier (UPI) Service went live as planned on Monday 16 October 2023, enabling firms to create and search for UPIs. UPI reporting starts in major derivatives markets in 2024, with US rules applying from 29 January 2024, the EU EMIR Refit regulations from 29 April 2024, followed by…
Data Products: Transforming Fraud Detection in Financial Services
By Suki Dhuphar, Head of EMEA, Tamr. Cybercrime assumes many shapes and forms. As a result, it’s often challenging to identify fraudulent behaviour and subsequently address it. Traditional methods frequently fail to detect and combat illicit activities, leading to financial losses and eroded trust. Yet, even today, one of the most prevalent solutions to enhance…
The Long and Winding Road to T+1 – A 20+ Year Journey
By Adrian Sharp, Principal, Fairfield Insights. What a long, strange trip it’s been. (Weir, Garcia et al, 1970) Earlier this year, the SEC published the final rules shortening the settlement cycle for US securities from T+2 to T+1 with a target compliance date of May 28, 2024. The case for a shortened settlement cycle remains…
Recorded Webinar: How to develop a reporting framework for ESG disclosure regulation
ESG reporting is a challenge and additional burden for many financial institutions as regulations continue to evolve, ESG data management is complex, and global standards remain elusive. Helpful solutions include reporting frameworks that support the collection, understanding, and management of ESG data for disclosure. This webinar will provide practical guidance on how to build a…
The Potential and Practicalities of Implementing Generative AI for Compliance
While AI has been around for 20 years or so, its time has come in capital markets with Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) able to handle vast volumes of compliance data and achieve outcomes that cannot be reached by humans. GenAI apps are not, however, a silver bullet, and compliance teams are not…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2023 – Eleventh Edition
Welcome to the eleventh edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a popular publication that covers new regulations in capital markets, tracks regulatory change, and provides advice on the data, data management and implementation requirements of more than 30 regulations across UK, European, US and Asia-Pacific capital markets. This edition of the handbook includes new…
EMIR Refit is on the Horizon – Is Your Organisation Ready? Find Out at Next Week’s RegTech Summit London
European Market Infrastructure Regulation Refit (EMIR Refit) is on the horizon with new reporting standards including more reporting fields, a change in reporting format from CSV to XML, an increase in the number of trading repository reconciliation fields for pairing a matching, and mandatory use of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI), which moves into production…
GLEIF and Open Ownership Collaborate on Beneficial Ownership Data to Fight Financial Crime
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) and Open Ownership, provider of a beneficial ownership database funded by donors including government agencies, have collaborated to integrate Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) into Open Ownership datasets produced in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS), an open standard providing guidance on collecting, sharing and using high-quality data on…