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The Future of Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Antony Phillipson
As the RegTech Summit Virtual 2020 fast approaches, we are so pleased to welcome Antony Phillipson, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America and Consul General in New York on Day Three (November 18) for a special Keynote speech and Q&A to discuss a possible Brexit UK-US FTA and outline the future of transatlantic regulatory…
Shield Launches New Solution to Detect Market Abuse
Specialist RegTech provider Shield has launched a new solution that combines its Insider Trading and Information Handling models. The enhanced platform, INSIDERS, is designed to meet the growing market demand for improved surveillance to accompany increased remote working in the new post-Covid normal. Firms are coming under unprecedented pressure to monitor all relevant communication channels, whilst…
Calling All Start-Ups: Do You Have What It Takes?
There’s only a month to go until the RegTech Summit Virtual 2020 kicks off, and with a brand new livestreaming format this year to showcase five days of intensive, cutting edge discussions around the most compelling issues facing the RegTech Industry today, we’re expecting our biggest audience yet. And we want you to be a…
A-Team Group Releases Regulatory Data Handbook 2020/2021
A-Team Group releases the eighth edition of its ‘best read’ publication, the Regulatory Data Handbook, today. The handbook is a ‘must have’ for capital markets participants, is free of charge, and profiles every regulation that impacts capital markets’ data management practices. Linda Coffman, executive vice president at The SmartStream Reference Data Utility, leads the handbook…
Refinitiv Acquires The Red Flag Group to Boost ESG, Supply Chain Capabilities
Refinitiv last week acquired The Red Flag Group, a Hong Kong-based global integrity and compliance risk firm specializing in enhanced due diligence and onboarding technologies across a range of industries. Its addition should significantly expand Refinitiv’s suite of due diligence offerings to help its corporate compliance customers better evaluate money laundering, bribery and corruption, reputational and ESG…
The Global Outlook for Regulatory Compliance – Where Are We Headed?
Are you ready for our upcoming RegTech Summit Virtual 2020? We’re so excited to bring you yet another action-packed online event, running over five days with a brand new livestream to make our content even more immediate. The first day kicks off with a deep-dive look at the global perspective for regulatory compliance and RegTech…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2020/2021 – Eighth Edition
This eighth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook is a ‘must-have’ for capital markets participants during this period of unprecedented change. Available free of charge, it profiles every regulation that impacts capital markets data management practices giving you: A detailed overview of each regulation with key dates, data and data management implications, links to…
ESMA Releases Long-Awaited Third-Country Draft Rules
ESMA this week published its final report containing draft rules for third-country firms providing investment services in the EU under the MIFIR and MiFID II regimes. The document should provide some long-awaited clarity around the ability of third-country firms to operate in Europe – including, of course, the UK, upon its final departure from the…
Are the Complexities of the New IFR Regime to Investment Firms as Kryptonite is to Superman?
By Richard Moss, Global Product Manager, Capital, AxiomSL. Even though investment firms have very different primary business models and risk profiles as opposed to lending institutions, to date, for regulatory purposes many have been considered credit institutions and accordingly report under the Basel-driven capital requirements regulation (CRR). The CRR approach is too broad to effectively…
Build vs buy? It’s already too late
By Sylvain Thieullent, CEO of Horizon Software. After a prolonged period of firefighting to solve problems right up until deadline day, the industry could be forgiven for thinking that their MiFID II worries were now behind them. However, over two years on from implementation day, the market may have to brace itself for further changes to…