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Calypso Teams Up With IHS Markit on SFTR
San Francisco-based software application provider Calypso Technology has partnered with IHS Markit to offer seamless connectivity for SFTR reporting, from the booking of the trade through to the trade repository, providing a comprehensive end-to-end view of the reporting. Common clients will benefit from a single interface to the trade repositories of their choice, with data…
IHS Markit Partners With Cappitech
IHS Markit has partnered with regulatory reporting and intelligence solutions provider Cappitech to deliver its SFTR solution via Cappitech’s reporting platform Capptivate. The alliance aims to automate and streamline transaction reporting to trade repositories for all securities finance instruments. It will also support out-of-the-box MiFID II reporting for additional instruments that will be in scope…
ESMA to Hold Hearing on SFTR Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will hold an open hearing on its consultation paper published on May 27, 2019 on draft Guidelines for the reporting under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). The hearing will take place on July 15, 2019 at the ESMA headquarters in Paris.
SIX FinTech Ventures Takes Stake in PXL Vision
SIX FinTech Ventures has acquired a stake in PXL Vision, a Zurich-based start-up offering solutions for online user verification. The company’s Daego solution supports the automatic creation and administration of secure digital identities. It is designed to help companies avoid physical verification processes when onboarding customers, reduce costs and provide a positive experience. The company…
Capital Markets AML Gaps Need Plugging with RegTech, Says FCA
There are significant gaps in anti-money laundering (AML) defences within capital markets, according to a recent UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) thematic review, ‘Understanding the Money Laundering Risks in the Capital Markets’. Many of the issues raised by the regulator either relate to the way financial crime technology is deployed within capital markets, or how…
Regulators Double Down on BCBS 239 Data Quality Focus
The European Central Bank (ECB) and other financial services regulators will increase their focus on improving the quality of data they receive from financial institutions over the next 24 months. Speakers at the Vermeg Annual Regulatory Reporting Conference, held in London in late June, said regulators are analysing the quality of the Basel III data…
Trade Surveillance and Mobile Recording in the Era of Data Privacy
The EU’s MiFID II and other regulations globally have placed greater emphasis than ever on market surveillance, recording of trading communications and records-retention processes in an attempt to stamp out market abuse and boost investor confidence and protections. At the same time, the public’s attitude toward data privacy has hardened, most visibly through new regulations…
Technology Overtakes Regulation as Key Driver of Change in Compliance
Compliance and the role of the compliance officer has changed significantly over the past decade as a result of escalating regulation, technology development, an increasing focus on culture and conduct risk, and the ever closer relationship between compliance and the business. Automation has also come to the fore as compliance departments working with rising volumes…
Derivatives Service Bureau Plans for Changes to Interest Rate Derivatives Reporting Under MiFIR
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) will open a user acceptance testing environment on July 7, 2019 to help financial institutions within the scope of MiFID II and MiFIR meet ESMA guidance on changes to interest rate derivatives reporting set out in RTS 23 field 41. ESMA updated its Q&A on MiFIR Data Reporting in September…
Embracing the Known in FRTB: Why Banks Need to Step Away from the Data Pool and Start with the Familiar
By: Charlie Browne, Head of Market & Risk Data Solutions, GoldenSource. The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is coming and it has sent firms into a spin around how to get the data required to prove risk factor modellability. It is the first time banks will be obligated to do this, a mammoth…