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The UK Regulatory Regime after Brexit – What Comes Next?
By Martin Lovick, Director, and Bobby Johal, Managing Director, ACA Compliance Group. A regime in transition Investment managers are – quite rightly – focusing near-term on the cliff-edge nature of the UK/EU negotiations on future trade arrangements. Their contingency planning will have already considered the likely loss of passporting rights for UK firms exporting their…
Are You Ready for the RegTech Summit Virtual 2020?
Hope might be in sight with the advent of an effective new vaccine, but the global pandemic has changed the way we work forever, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the business environment will be irrevocably changed by the 2020 experience. Remote engagement has become more important than ever, and agility and versatility have…
RIMES Strengthens BMR Push with EBR Acquisition
RIMES Technologies Corporation (RIMES) has acquired London-based EBR Analytics (EBR), a Benchmarks Regulation (BMR)-focused RegTech company, adding the EBR solution to its own BMR compliance suite, RIMES RegFocus BMR. Following the transaction, the EBR brand will fold into RIMES, with the EBR team joining the company under RIMES’ leadership. There is a natural synergy between the two…
RegTech Suppliers Guide 2020/2021
Welcome to the second edition of A-Team Group’s RegTech Suppliers Guide, an essential aid for financial institutions sourcing innovative solutions to improve their regulatory response, and a showcase for encumbent and new RegTech vendors with offerings designed to match market demand. Available free of charge and based on an industry-wide survey, the guide provides a…
Lombard Odier Selects Bloomberg to Streamline Risk Management Processes
Lombard Odier Investment Managers, the asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, has adopted Bloomberg’s PORT Enterprise solution to support portfolio and risk management across multiple assets classes. Lombard Odier IM is a long-standing client of Bloomberg’s order management system AIM, and first integrated PORT Enterprise back in 2019 to support performance attribution and…
Why the Reality of Third-Country Regulatory Reporting is About to Bite!
By Volker Lainer, Vice-President of Product Management at GoldenSource. Just two months until the end of the transition period, ESMA’s latest report brings home the stark reality of what third-country status means for UK financial institutions from a regulatory reporting perspective. Regardless of whether or not a trade agreement between the EU and the UK…
SteelEye Joins Forces with Refinitiv on RegTech Suite
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has incorporated Refinitiv market data on its RegTech platform in a bid to help its clients enhance their compliance and analytics capabilities. Refinitiv provides one of the widest ranges of cross-asset data available, with 7.3 million price updates per second for over 84 million instruments and 2.5…
The Next CAT Deadline is Here – And the Error Rate is High
The interfirm linkage for the Equities Phase 2a of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) went live in the US today (October 26), with firms now required to validate transaction linkages between them to ensure orders are routed correctly. One of the most important milestones of the entire CAT journey, the interfirm linkage requirements are nevertheless…
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…