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The Model Muddle

By Richard Moss, Product Manager, AxiomSL. Many financial institutions (FIs) find themselves wondering how they became mired in a credit model muddle that is dragging down their profitability. They want to know how they can get out of this swamp. Traditionally, FIs heavily relied on economic capital models to support business decision-making. Then, with the…

Oracle Leverages Cloud Technology to Offer AML Services to Smaller Banks

Oracle in June announced the roll-out of its Oracle Financial Services Anti Money Laundering (AML) Express Edition to small- and mid-sized banks: allowing smaller players to cost-effectively address evolving global AML regulations and guidelines, despite their smaller IT budgets and limited resources compared to global top-tier institutions. AML Express provides unified platform to efficiently detect,…

FCA Urges Greater Cyber Resilience

The number of cyber incidents financial services firms reported to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) soared in 2018, and the watchdog is now calling on regulated firms to develop greater cyber resilience to prevent attacks and operational resilience to recover from them. According to data recently acquired by accountancy firm RSM under the Freedom of…

EBA Warns of £135bn Bank Shortfall for Basel IV

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that the EU’s biggest banks could face a funding gap of up to £135bn in order to comply with Basel IV, an updated set of post-crisis regulations expected to be phased in from 2022 and be in full force by 2027. The EBA estimates that banks could face…

Dion Global Releases Corporate Actions Solution

Dion Global Solutions has released a corporate actions solution. Already live with two pilot customers, the solution is designed to make corporate actions processing cost effective for the smallest industry participants and scalable for the largest. It aims to decrease manual processing by increasing automation, and reduce risk by ensuring no event is missed or…

Key Factors for Successful Implementation of Automation in KYC

By Nick Ford, Head of Alliances at encompass, and Matt Neill, Managing Director at Optechs. Since the financial crisis more than a decade ago, there has been a huge focus on Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) from global regulators, resulting in a stream of regulation as well as more than $23 billion…

Artesian Solutions Launches New Risk and Compliance Hub

Artesian Solutions, a UK-based client intelligence tool for financial services companies, has announced the general availability (GA) of its new Artesian Risk and Compliance Hub (ARCH), following two years of development. ARCH is designed to enable relationship managers, underwriters and frontline teams within banks, insurance companies, and other financially regulated industries to assess and understand…

Coinform to Investigate Ripple’s AML Compliance

US regtech start-up Coinfirm has signed an agreement with San Francisco-based Ripple, the company behind cryptocurrency XRP, to investigate the crypto’s compliance with AML regulations. The move comes in advance of a planned crackdown by US authorities on cryptocurrency exchanges, following an announcement by the Financial Action Task Force report in June of tighter regulation…

UnaVista Takes on 25 New SFTR Partners

UnaVista, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, in June welcomed 25 new software vendors to its SFTR partner programme: including Calypso Technology, Equilend, IHS Markit, Trax, the post-trade services arm of MarketAxess, Broadridge and Murex S.A.S. The new partners will connect directly into UnaVista’s SFTR platform, allowing their clients to report all their required…

Comyno and REGIS-TR Join Forces

German tech consultancy Comyno has partnered with Luxembourg trade repository REGIS-TR to provide an integrated SFTR solution with straight-through processing for mutual clients. The alliance will connect Comyno’s C-ONE SFTR solution to REGIS-TR’s test environment, offering clients early validation and testing in advance of implementation.