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EVIA Calls for Clarification and Consistency Around Scope of MiFID II
Following the German Finance Ministry’s recent call for feedback on MiFID II and MiFIR, one year on from implementation, the European Venues and Intermediaries Association (EVIA, formerly known as the Wholesale Markets’ Brokers Association), has raised numerous concerns around the lack of clarity and consistency of regulatory interpretation across markets. Despite praising the benefits of…
Tookitaki Raises $7.5m in Series A Funding
Tookitaki, a regulatory technology company that aims to enable financial institutions to develop sustainable compliance programs through the use of AI-based technology, has raised S$7.5 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by London-based Illuminate Financial, an early-stage enterprise financial technology investor, along with Jungle Ventures, a Singapore-based VC firm focused on technology…
Singapore’s Jumio Joins with ComplyAdvantage to Reduce AML Risk Exposure
Jumio, an AI-powered trusted identity as a service provider, this week launched Jumio Screening: an automated AML screening solution that integrates ComplyAdvantage, a real-time, dynamic financial crime database. The partnership gives Jumio users access to a global proprietary database of structured risk profiles covering enhanced sanctions, regulatory and enforcement watchlists, politically exposed persons and adverse…
How to Optimize Suitability Solutions Amid Increasing Regulatory Confusion
Suitability is a hot topic – and an increasingly tricky one. The FCA suitability requirement (COBS 9), an obligation for all wealth managers in the UK, is relatively new in both the UK and wider Europe, and the existence of MiFID II has only served to further confuse the situation. As regulatory bodies around the…
SmartSearch Works Towards Client Integration
UK-based AML platform SmartSearch, which claims to be the only organisation in the UK with the ability to verify individuals and companies on a single platform via a browser or AP with full Sanction, PEP and adverse media screening, is working towards an integration-based model rather than use as a standalone system – and today…
Encompass Corporation and IHS Markit Partner to Chop KYC Time by a Third
IHS Markit has integrated a new KYC automation solution from London-based encompass corporation into its KYC Services offering, in a bid to reduce manual processes and drive efficiency. Using encompass, IHS Markit has fully automated the collection of critical KYC data from the public domain, including global corporate registries, regulatory listings and exchanges. As the regulatory…
MiFIR Data in a No-Deal Brexit World – Learn More at the DMI Summit 2019
The impact of a no-deal Brexit on data requirements under MiFIR is becoming clearer – and the implications are serious. While the L1 and L2 level MiFIR regulations will remain largely unchanged, the MiFIR data reporting landscape across the EU after a no-deal Brexit will change significantly in operational terms. Mateusz Hojda of the Business Reporting –…
Investors Bank Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting
Investors Bank, a New Jersey institution with 151 branches and around $25 billion in assets, has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX solution for regulatory reporting. OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting is set up to use a single source of data to ensure consistency, reconciliation and accuracy and includes Wolters Kluwer’s Regulatory Update Service, which actively monitors regulation…
Central Bancompany Chooses Wolters Kluwer for Change Management
Missouri’s Central Bancompany has chosen to implement Wolters Kluwer’s regulatory change management solution across its 13 affiliate banks. OneSumX for Regulatory Change Management tracks regulatory changes and maps them to specific lines of business, providing enhanced risk and controls assessment. Central Bancompany also uses Wolters Kluwers’ OneSumX Risk and Controls Assessment to manage its enterprise…
GoldenSource Releases New Datasets to Help Banks with Brexit Reporting Changes
Software and services provider GoldenSource last week announced the release of a series of new Brexit-specific datasets via its enterprise data management solution, to help banks prepare for differing regulatory demands in the wake of the UK’s expected departure from the EU on the 29th March 2019. The firm implemented the move in response to…