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Fighting Financial Crime: A Path for Progress
The recent A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York on November 15, 2018 featured a wide range of challenging and sometimes controversial discussions, but none were more pertinent in today’s environment than the in-depth and insight panel discussing the best methods of fighting financial crime and improving technology techniques for anti-money laundering (AML) and Know…
Recorded Webinar: Managing data for the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)
The January 1, 2022 compliance deadline for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation may be three years out, but if your organisation is within scope of the rules, the time to address their data management challenges is now. Will your organisation be able to source the necessary data for non-modellable risk factors (NMRFs)…
Positive Progress, Says Powell
Progress has been made around the world on financial regulation, according to US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. In a recent speech he noted that regulation has become stricter and more transparent, but warned that further adjustments could be on the horizon. “In the financial stability realm, the case for enhanced transparency is not just…
Main Capital Buys Stake in German RegTech Start-up cleversoft
Main Capital Partners, an investment manager focused solely on the software industry in Benelux, Germany and Scandinavia, has acquired a stake in Munich-based regtech software-as-a-service specialist cleversoft for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2004, cleversoft provides cloud-based regulatory reporting services for regulatory regimes including PRIIPs, MiFID II, PIB, FIDLEG and AML, underpinned by lifecycle management…
German RegTech Start-up Alyne Raises €3 million in Seed Funding
Munich-based regtech start-up Alyne has raised €3 million in Series A financing in a round led by Alstin Capital and Hannover Digital Investments. The investment brings Alyne’s total funding to €4.2 million since launching its next generation regtech solution in early 2016. Alyne’s software-as-a-service product, the Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) platform, provides a curated and…
Getting Ready for the Consolidated Audit Trail
One of the most detailed discussions of the recent A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York centred around the arduous ongoing journey towards implementation of the long-delayed Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). Approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission two years ago to the day (November 15, 2016), the CAT aims to create a single…
Panelists Agree that Regulatory Ambiguity Hampers Regulatory Reporting Efficiency
In a panel moderated by Robin Doyle, Managing Director of the Office of Regulatory Affairs at J.P. Morgan, regtech practitioners discussed potential solutions for regulatory reporting efficiency—and the challenges surrounding them. Doyle addressed some of these challenges when she kicked off the panel, citing the lack of consistency in the manner in which data is…
Recorded Webinar: How to find common ground for data management across multiple regulations
We’ve asked over many years how financial institutions can find common ground for data management processes to meet the requirements of multiple regulations, such as MiFID II, MiFIR, EMIR, MAR and BCBS 239. While this is a goal most firms have aspired to, the reality of pressing deadlines for regulation after regulation meant firms had…
RegTech By Numbers: Statistics From the A-Team Group RegTech Summit 2018
With 53,000 new regulations in 2017 alone, the sheer volume of numbers in the regtech industry is overwhelming. Taken from the highly successful second annual RegTech Summit 2018 held in London in October 2018, the following graphic pulls out the most compelling facts, figures, quotes and costs to come out of the day’s discussions –…
RIMES Launches New Reg-Focused Data Feed for BMR
Managed services and solutions provider RIMES Technologies has taken another step into the regtech space with the launch of its new RIMES RegFocus BMR Data Feed, a new service to help asset managers, banks and insurance companies ensure the benchmarks they use in financial instruments and contracts are compliant with the EU’s Benchmarks Regulation (BMR),…