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Lack of Senior Management Buy-in is Prohibiting Digital Transformation, Finds Fenergo
Digital maturity is still a long way off for financial institutions, according to new research by Fenergo, provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions. The findings of Fenergo’s CLM Report, which is the second in a three-part series, showed that fewer than half (40%) of the 250 financial institutions surveyed…
Cappitech Launches New Insights Product
Cappitech has announced the launch of Insights, a product that enables compliance teams and risk managers to improve the data quality of their regulatory reporting and benchmark their performance to their peers. Insights provides actionable data at-a-glance, allowing firms to set KPIs and view the key reasons for trade rejections as well as granular data…
Beam Solutions Issues Warning on Insufficient AML Procedures Across EU Member States
Beam Solutions, a San Francisco-based transaction monitoring platform founded in 2016 by former Facebook and Paypal executives, has warned of widespread Russian money laundering within the EU banking system. In a note published March 18, the software company noted that multiple major European banks were facing allegations of failing to prevent money laundering taking place…
Apex Group Selects AQMetrics to Power Regulatory Reporting Teams
Apex Group, the fifth-largest fund administrator in the world with over $610 billion in assets under management, has selected RegTech firm AQMetrics as its regulatory reporting technology solution. Apex plans to utilise AQMetrics for its ESMA, CFTC and SEC regulatory reporting requirements. The integrated AQMetrics platform will deliver a full suite of multi-jurisdictional regulatory reporting…
HMRC Releases List of Firms in Breach of AML Regulations
HMRC on March 4,2019 published a list of nine businesses issued with penalty notices for the 2018-19 tax year, for failing to comply with the new 2017 Money Laundering Regulations. Five penalties were enforced by HRMC between June 2017 and October 2018 under the 2017 regulations, to the value of £1,390.80. A further 545 penalties were enforced under…
Brexit Uncertainty: Putting MiFID II Tactics to the Test
Last week, software and services provider GoldenSource released new Brexit-specific datasets to help banks prepare for the worst in the event of a no-deal Brexit on March 29. With the prospect of any deal still very much up in the air, and only 10 days to go till the deadline, concerns are running high. So…
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…