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No Enforcement Doesn’t Mean No Problem, Warns FCA on MiFID II Compliance
The question of regulatory enforcement is a tough one, and the FCA has come in for its fair share of criticism over how it has handled the compliance requirements for the radical new fee disclosure requirements brought in by MiFID II in January last year. The regulator has been adamant in its stance that MiFID…
MiFID II: A Long Way from Happy Ever After…
It is over a year since MiFID II was finally implemented on January 3, 2018 and in the mad dash to meet the regulatory deadline, many firms adopted immediate measures and mandatory shortcuts to meet the new research rules, that are now emerging as less than sustainable over the long-term. Fast forward 13 months, and…
Alpha FMC and Kaizen Partner on Transaction Reporting Compliance
Specialist regulatory reporting solutions provider Kaizen has teamed up with wealth management consultancy Alpha FMC to offer a new transaction reporting compliance assurance service. The collaboration will comprise a “health check” for specialist wealth managers and smaller asset managers including an assessment of current governance and control frameworks, a check on the accuracy of reported…
Broadridge Acquires PivotData and Sol Hedge Regulatory Reporting Functions
Global fintech provider Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired certain private fund regulatory reporting capabilities from New York-based PivotData, a data warehouse and compliance reporting solutions platform for the investment community, and its partner Sol Hedge. Broadridge will leverage their capabilities to help private fund asset managers meet their regulatory reporting requirements. “PivotData and Sol Hedge’s proprietary data transformation,…
SEC CAT Hits Another Hurdle
The US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has hit another hurdle with the CAT National Market System (NMS) confirming that it is ‘transitioning the CAT project to a new plan processer’. This suggests Thesys Technologies, which was rather surprisingly selected as the plan processor by the self-regulatory organisations (SROs) that operate the CAT NMS in May…
OneSumX: A New Way of Meeting CECL Reporting and Compliance Obligations
A-Team Group speaks exclusively to Wolters Kluwer to learn more about OneSumX, a suite of integrated regulatory compliance solutions, and how it can assist firms to meet compliance requirements for the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) credit loss accounting standard model introduced in June 2016 by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). What is CECL…
No-Deal Brexit Could Threaten GDPR Compliance
By Alex Scheinman, Director, ACA Compliance Despite its crucial importance, data protection in a post-Brexit world is not getting the attention it deserves. UK firms have spent a significant time preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as members of the EU. However, Brexit means that they may have to comprehensively re-think their approach…
The Road to Success: Wolters Kluwer’s Claudio Salinardi
What makes a business chief tick? How did they get to where they are today, and what bumps did they experience along the way? We speak to Claudio Salinardi, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business, to find out… 1. What was your journey to becoming General Manager…
The Rise and Rise of RegTech: Bringing Asset Management into the Digital Age
By Kevin O’Neill, Global Head of Buy-Side Division, Fenergo Technology is advancing at lightning speed. Blockchain, AI and other cutting-edge technologies have completely disrupted the financial services sector in recent years. Now, as the global banking industry turns its attention to regulation and compliance, the newest kid on the fintech block, regtech, is set to…
MiFID II: One Year On and None the Wiser
By Christian Voigt, Senior Regulatory Advisor, Fidessa MiFID has achieved the rare feat of becoming a genericized trademark. In the same way that Xerox stands for copy machines in general, MiFID has turned into a synonym for all financial markets regulation. With the scorecard for its first birthday due, whether MiFID II really is ground-breaking,…