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Broadridge Introduces Change Management Service for SFTR
Broadridge Financial Solutions has introduced a change management service to help companies design target operating models that are compliant with Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). The service provides a blueprint for front-to-back changes to overall architecture, organisational structure, business processes and location strategy. The company is also offering project management, business analysis and testing support…
The Regulatory Landscape and Developments in Europe
By Rachel Woolley, Global AML Manager, Fenergo In the 10 years since the global financial crisis, regulatory frameworks around the world have been radically transformed. And although the aim of the overhaul was to improve the resilience of financial institutions and regain investor confidence, it has left many financial organisations grappling with an ever-increasing regulatory…
The Trials, Tribulations and Potential Benefits of FRTB Compliance
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation is more prescriptive than former Basel 2.5 market risk requirements, calls for a consistent workflow across risk, finance and the front office, and needs firms to source previously unused and difficult to find data – challenges that many banks have yet to conquer ahead of the January…
DTCC Adds Vendor Partners to Help Mutual Clients Achieve SFTR Compliance
Reflecting DTCC’s recent announcement that Barclays, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan have signed up to use its Global Trade Repository (GTR) to meet their obligations under the European Union’s Securities Financial Transactions Regulation (SFTR), the company has named additional vendor partners that it will work with to support mutual clients. New partnerships have been made…
SEC N-PORT Deadline Compliance Met with RegTech
Confluence has announced that those of its clients with a May 30, 2019 Form N-PORT filing requirement have completed their filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Confluence’s clients represent fund administrators and asset managers servicing more than 75% of funds filing Form N-PORT. They have met their Form N-PORT requirements using Unity…
Recorded Webinar: FRTB: Laying the groundwork for compliance
The January 2022 compliance deadline for sell-side firms within the scope of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation may seem far into the future, but the complex demands of the regulation and the need to source regulatory data that has never previously been required mean firms should already be identifying tools, solutions and…
Investment in Regulatory Technology can Reap Wider Business Benefits
By: Yousaf Hafeez, Head of Business Development at Radianz, BT One of the major outcomes of the financial crisis has undoubtedly been the marked rise in regulatory scrutiny. The banking industry, for example, has paid in the region of $345 billion in global regulatory fines over the past decade, according to research from the Boston…
FRTB 2022 Deadline Proves Tricky for Firms and Regulators
Global regulatory implementation of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS) Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) may be unevenly paced, creating challenges for financial institutions and regulators alike. FRTB was introduced to fix problems that both regulators and the industry perceived with so-called ‘Basel 2.5’ market risk changes, which were put in place…
Barclays, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan select DTCC for SFTR compliance
As the deadline for the European Union’s Securities Financial Transactions Regulation (SFTR) approaches, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan have signed up to use DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service to meet their obligations under the regulation, which is due to take effect in April 2020. Other banks already signed up to the service as…
eXate enables ‘Privacy by Design’ in OpenFin OS
Desktop interoperability platform OpenFin has added eXate’s data privacy capabilities to its operating system to ensure compliance with the EU’s GDPR, which came into force a year ago and requires that new applications are designed with privacy considerations factored in from the outset, a so-called ‘privacy by design’ approach. eXate restricts data only to authorised…