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Recorded Webinar: How to apply innovative e-comms surveillance whilst ensuring control, compliance and enhanced productivity

Remember the days when email was the predominant media for electronic communications within and among financial institutions? Fast forward to today, and email represents a declining fraction of these e-comms, many of which are hosted by modern collaborative platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack, and Zoom, and all of which are subject to surveillance….

CUBE Sets Growth Plans Following First Capital Investment Round from Bregal Milestone

CUBE, a provider of automated regulatory intelligence (ARI), has secured its first institutional capital investment from Bregal Milestone, a technology growth capital firm dedicated to investments in high-growth, market-defining technology companies. CUBE will use the undisclosed investment sum to deepen product capabilities for customers, drive further international expansion, and accelerate overall growth both organically and…

Know Your Customer and HAWK AI Partner to Strengthen Defence Against Financial Crime

Know Your Customer, a provider of modular digital client onboarding solutions, and Hawk AI, a provider of anti-money laundering surveillance technology for financial institutions, payment firms and fintechs, have made a strategic partnership that will build a stronger defence against financial crime. The partnership combines Know Your Customer’s digital onboarding and business KYC solutions with…

Preparing for a Period of Regulatory Change

Murray Campbell, Business Consultant at AutoRek, considers how the compliance regime for UK financial services firms is changing and how outsourcing can help firms manage the regulatory burden. In recent years, the UK financial services industry has found itself with an opportunity to redefine the compliance landscape. Brexit has allowed the UK to break away…

Recorded Webinar: Meeting the challenges of regulatory change

Regulatory change is constant, complex and challenging, calling on financial institutions to attend to details of change whether relatively minor or large scale. Recent regulatory changes include MiFID II post-trade transparency requirements, including ESMA’s increase in data continuity checks that brokers must prepare for, and trading venues must make, when reporting instrument reference and quantitative…

Russell Investments Selects ACA’s ARRMA Service to Improve Regulatory Reporting

Russell Investments has selected ACA Group’s Regulatory Reporting Monitoring and Assurance (ARRMA) service to manage its transaction reporting arrangements. The deal covers EMIR reporting and adds to ACA’s provision of MiFIR assurance reviews for Russell Investments since May 2021. The service combines technology and consulting, and will help the investment firm identify and remediate transaction…

AFME Makes Recommendations for Open Finance Framework

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has underlined the importance of a level playing field for responsible data sharing and made recommendations for an Open Finance Framework ahead of the publication of the European Commission’s framework for data access in financial services that is due to be published in coming months. EFMA shares…

Regulatory Data Handbook 2022/2023 – Tenth Edition

Welcome to the tenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a publication that has tracked new regulations, amendments, implementation and data management requirements as regulatory change has impacted global capital markets participants over the past 10 years. This edition of the handbook includes new regulations and highlights some of the major regulatory interventions challenging…

It’s Time to Embrace Risk Profiling for Regulatory Compliance

By Richard Pike, Managing Director, KYR Solutions, MyComplianceOffice. Regulations, frameworks, policies and controls define the day-to-day of Chief Compliance Officers (CCO) and their teams in what can best be described as a world of monitoring spaghetti. At the same time, the teams also need to ensure they are keeping senior executives and the front office…

Running the Red Light of Settlement

By Michel De Puydt, Chief Financial Officer, SSimple. The European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) Settlement Discipline Regime (SDR) came into effect on February 1. Part of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR), which was originally introduced in 2014 along with MiFID II and EMIR, this long-anticipated legislation has finally landed and threatens to bring…