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A Holistic Approach to Regulatory Change Management: Insights from RegTech Summit 2024
In November, the RegTech community gathered for A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit in New York City, now in its eighth year. 2024 also saw a record number of national elections including the United States, the UK and six other G20 countries. The details of any changes in regulatory policy and any impact on Governance Risk and…
KYC 2.0: Elevating Customer Due Diligence Practices
By Steve Marshall, Director, Advisory Services, FinScan, an Innovative Systems solution. Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements for anti-money laundering (AML) programmes are entering a new era. Evolving regulations, industry best practices, and ongoing scrutiny of compliance programmes are pushing organisations subject to KYC regulations to reevaluate their approach to customer due diligence (CDD), the process…
How RegTech has Shaped Compliance in a Year of Global Regulatory Changes
2024 has been a transformative year for the regulatory landscape marked by major updates to trade reporting rules across the globe. Leo Labeis, CEO of REGnosys, reflects on the year and discusses how firms can harness RegTech solutions to stay prepared for ongoing regulatory evolution. While some will remember 2024 as “the year the world…
Kaizen and RegGenome Partner to Streamline Global Regulatory Intelligence
Reg reporting specialist Kaizen has forged a partnership with RegGenome, a spin-out from the University of Cambridge and a founding member of the open-source Regulatory Genome Project (RGP), aimed at helping financial institutions navigate complex global regulations. The tie-in combines RegGenome’s AI-powered regulatory data repository with Kaizen’s award-winning Single Rulebook platform. The partnership leverages the complementary…
2024 Nasdaq Compliance Survey Reveals Top Compliance Challenges and Investment Priorities
Nasdaq’s Global Survey Highlights AI, Cloud, and Data Quality as Key Drivers in Compliance Evolution The financial services sector is navigating an increasingly complex regulatory and operational landscape, as highlighted in Nasdaq’s ninth Annual Global Compliance Survey. The survey, conducted among 94 compliance professionals from the sell-side, buy-side, and financial market infrastructure sectors, underscores a…
Recorded Webinar: Addressing conduct risk: approaches to surveillance
Conduct risk in financial services is a critical area that requires vigilant monitoring and robust surveillance mechanisms. Regulatory bodies, (FCA, FINRA and others) have tightened their scrutiny and financial institutions must adopt advanced approaches to effectively manage and mitigate conduct risk. This webinar will examine the latest methodologies and technologies used to address conduct risk,…
FINRA’s 2024 New and Updated Guidelines on AI and GenAI/LLM Integration
In 2024, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) expanded its guidance on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the securities industry, placing particular emphasis on generative AI (GenAI) and large language models. This builds upon FINRA’s ongoing efforts since 2020 to ensure that member firms adhere to existing regulatory frameworks while adopting advanced technologies. The recent…
UK Budget Puts Corporate Actions Automation Back on the Agenda
By Yogita Mehta, Commercial Product Director – Corporate Actions, Financial Information, SIX. Expectations around the UK budget in October last month have been consistently making headlines since even before its was announced. One area that is expected to be impacted because of the changes announced by Rachel Reeves is market appetite for M&A activity, with…
A-Team Group Names RegTech Insight – USA 2024 Award Winners
You have all voted and the results are in – A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2024. The awards acknowledge leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across the USA, and the winners were named following the company’s 8th annual RegTech Summit in New York…
Embracing a New Age of Post-trade Transparency
By Anne Plested, MCSI, Senior Product Manager for Regulation, ION Markets. Incentives for change Earlier last year, as part of the UK Wholesale Markets Review (WMR), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its PS23/4 policy statement on Improving Equity Secondary Markets. Promising to remove the most burdensome and unnecessary regulatory requirements, this policy aims to…