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TS Imagine Partners with eflow to Add Surveillance Capabilities

Trading and risk management platform provider TS Imagine has forged a partnership with eflow, a provider of regulatory compliance solutions, that aims to help mutual clients both to meet their regulatory obligations and to safeguard against market abuse through communications monitoring. According to Alex Carteau, head of corporate development at TS Imagine, “This partnership bolsters our...


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Understanding the Value of Global Identifiers in the Fight Against Financial Crime

By Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations, GLEIF. Money laundering and terrorist financing create significant systemic risks in the global financial system. The intricate webs spun by fraudsters and criminals to evade detection crisscross national borders and legal jurisdictions, commonly exploiting multiple financial institutions and legal entities. In today’s instant digital economy, this is exposing...

FinTech Veterans Create Data, Technology and Services ‘Ecosystem’ to Solve Regulatory Challenges

The battery of ESG and financial regulations introduced in the past few years – and the future rules already in an advanced state of preparation – are weighing on institutions as the threat of censure for breaches increases. But a team of FinTech specialists has come up with a novel approach to helping all parties,...

Xceptor’s Integration with Taskize Seeks to Aid Firms as They Grapple with T+1

With the US markets’ adoption of T+1 settlement looming, trade automation platform Xceptor has teamed up with corporate collaboration specialist Taskize to streamline the trade affirmation process. The integration of the Xceptor Confirmations solution with Taskize’s inter-company workflow platform is aimed at helping firms to orchestrate affirm, confirm, and dispute resolution with their counterparties as...

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FEATURED WEBINAR

Upcoming Webinar: How to ensure efficient, accurate, timely and compliant entity data management

Date: 29 November 2023 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Requesting, gathering, analysing and monitoring customer, vendor and partner entity data is a time-consuming, and often a manual process. These aspects can slow down customer relationships and can expose financial institutions to risk from inaccurate, incomplete or outdated data…

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ESG Data & Tech Summit London

The ESG Data & Tech Summit will explore challenges around assembling and evaluating ESG data for reporting and the impact of regulatory measures and industry collaboration on transparency and standardisation efforts. Expert speakers will address how the evolving market infrastructure is developing and the role of new technologies and alternative data in improving insight and filling data gaps.

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Regulatory Reporting Handbook – First Edition

Welcome to the inaugural edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Reporting Handbook, a comprehensive guide to reporting obligations that must be fulfilled by financial institutions on a global basis. The handbook reviews not only the current state of play within the regulatory reporting space, but also looks ahead to identify how institutions should be preparing for…

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Getting Control of Access to Key Market Services

Use of single dealer portals that allow banks to trade assets on behalf of their clients is growing rapidly, particularly among firms in the fixed income and foreign exchange markets in particular. But while trading portals offer great benefits in terms of broader market reach and enhanced client functionality, they bring risks too. Firms are...

Best Practice Approaches to Cross-Product Market Surveillance

As perpetrators of financial crime become more sophisticated, regulators worldwide are focusing more of their efforts on cross-product and cross-market manipulation, as evidenced by a growing number of high-profile prosecutions. Led by the UK’s FSA and the EU’s ESMA, regulators in key global markets are targeting sophisticated operators, whose cross-product activities typically involve  are able...

Next-Generation Network and Vendor Management: mitigating operational risk in relationship networks

The complex network of relationships that financial institutions have built with multiple partners has created a huge operational burden, resulting in significant operational risk as well as financial and compliance risk. Dating back decades, many of these relationships are now managed as a separate business function, costing organisations millions of dollars. Add in regulatory obligations,...

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Recorded Webinar: Preparing For Primetime – How to Benefit from the Global LEI

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Much has been made of the initiative to create a global standard legal entity identifier (LEI). Its backers have taken great pains to explain how the new identifier will improve transparency and contribute to the ongoing regulatory war against systemic risk. After months of...

Recorded Webinar: Practical Applications of the Global LEI – Client On-Boarding and Beyond

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. With the March ‘launch’ of the global legal entity identifier (LEI), the marketplace now officially has a standard it can use for managing entity data. Post-Credit Crunch, the lack of such a standard has forced firms to embark on their own initiatives to create...

Recorded Webinar: FATCA – The time to act is now

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year, but with the exception of a few modifications the legislation...

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RegTech Insight Awards Europe

Meet the winners of the 3rd annual RegTech Insight Awards – Europe 2023. These awards recognise both established solution providers and innovative newcomers, seeking to herald and highlight RegTech solutions that throughout the year have successfully improved firms’ ability to effectively respond to the evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements across the global financial services industry.

 

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  • Regulatory Reporting Handbook – First Edition

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