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How Process Mapping is the Starting Point for Effective KYC Automated Solutions
By Oliver Parris, Pre-Sales Consultant, encompass corporation. Your business knows that process automation will give you a strategic advantage but how do you begin to create this vision? How is all the detail of your complex Know Your Customer (KYC) process accurately captured in order to form a foundation for the journey towards automation? What…
IHS Markit Releases Accelerator with End Goal of Same-day Client Onboarding
IHS Markit has released Onboarding Accelerator, a solution to help banks and other service providers open accounts with institutional clients more quickly and ultimately in one day. The company says that, on average, the onboarding process including collection of all required information to satisfy Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), credit, legal and tax…
Fenergo Builds National KYC Utility with Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions
The Kingdom of Bahrain has set out to improve financial institutions’ client onboarding and minimise fraud through a partnership with Fenergo. Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions (BENEFIT) is working with the vendor to design and implement a national Know Your Customer (KYC) utility that incorporates blockchain technology. The utility platform will support sectors including…
A-Team Group Announces Winners for 2019 RegTech Insight Awards
A-Team Group on Friday announced the winners of its prestigious RegTech Insight Awards during a well-attended and energetic ceremony held at Banking Hall on London’s Cornhill. The awards, now in their third year, recognise excellence and innovation in the provision of technology solutions to meet regulatory requirements within the financial services industry, and are uniquely…
Making KYC Simpler Through Intelligent Automation
By Roger Carson, Co-Founder & Global Financial Sales Director at encompass corporation. In this blog, we explore the concept of digital Know Your Customer (KYC) profiles. Created by intelligent automation, digital KYC profiles persist from client onboarding and through refresh and monitoring work, helping financial institutions manage and retain valuable information, control complexity and reduce costs,…
Catena Ramps Up SFTR Reporting with UnaVista
Catena Technologies this week announced an extension of its collaboration with UnaVista, part of London Stock Exchange Group, to help firms prepare and comply with Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) transaction reporting. Catena has extended its membership of UnaVista’s Partner Programme to include SFTR. This will enable its customers to automate trade reporting submission and post-submission…
DoubleEdge Partners with Insightful Technology to Tackle Data Compliance Challenges
Following the recent relaunch of its flagship Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution Soteria in April, Insightful Technology today announced a new venture with longstanding partners DoubleEdge, specialists in communications compliance, to tackle issues around the consolidation of data, vendor and technology silos for effective data compliance, surveillance and risk mitigation. “To date, financial firms have coped with…
Oktris Offers MiFID II Transparency Reporting Services
Start-up regulatory reporting firm Oktris is offering MiFID II services beyond transaction and post-trade reporting with software-as-a-service solutions covering transparency calculation data reporting, instrument reference data reporting, and best execution reporting. The company also provides an ESMA and FCA Financial Instruments Reference Data System (FIRDS) solution that automates the task of taking large datasets from…
SIX and Eagle Investment Systems Expand Alliance to Include Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service
Switzerland-based data provider SIX and Eagle Investment Systems, a BNY Mellon company, today announced an expanded alliance to help Eagle clients source global sanctions data – building on an established relationship dating back to 2011. Eagle clients can now source sanctions data directly from SIX for use within Eagle solutions. The alliance will help to…
Research Payments Dip in Europe and UK, Finds New Study
Average European research payments lagged North American research payments by over 40% last year, according to data from Integrity Research’s fourth major benchmark study of research pricing. The survey results indicate that MiFID II has had a broad (and not necessarily positive) impact on research pricing since its implementation in January 2018. Average payments for…