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SIX Survey Shows Shortfall in Automated Corporate Actions Processing
Corporate actions continue to be processed manually despite the need for automation to meet industry demand for near real-time delivery of the data, reduced operating costs and improved regulatory compliance. A survey by SIX – its second annual survey on corporate actions that was carried out between March and May 2021 among global asset managers,…
Practical Data Strategies for meeting ESG Obligations in Financial Services
The ESG investing landscape is poised to become more defined, as competing definitions, standards and regulatory initiatives start to converge. The impact of ESG will be felt far and wide across the financial services community, which will face practical challenges in developing and implementing an ESG strategy that is both effective and avoids box-ticking –…
Don’t Miss It – A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual is Just Weeks Away
Data monetisation, data strategy to drive business outcomes, data discovery and intelligence, the power of data lineage, how to deliver an ESG data strategy and, necessarily, regulatory reporting challenges and the data management response, are just some of the key topics that leading capital markets’ participants and innovative solutions vendors will discuss at A-Team Group’s…
Sponsored Blog: The LIBOR Transition: Fallback Rates and the USD Cash Market
By Jacob Rank-Broadley, Head of LIBOR Transition, B&I, Refinitiv. Our latest Refinitiv webinar sees a panel of experts unpack some pertinent issues surrounding cash products referencing USD LIBOR after its cessation. The most widely used USD LIBOR settings will permanently cease or no longer be representative after 30 June 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority has…
Fund Administration Services Provider EFA Selects NeoXam Impress Regulatory Edition
EFA, a provider of administrative services to the fund industry in Luxembourg, has selected NeoXam’s Impress Regulatory Edition hosted with NeoXam-as-a-Service to help meet its regulatory goals. EFA was already using NeoXam GP, the vendor’s back-office investment accounting tool, and selected Impress Regulatory Edition as it needed a dedicated platform to industrialise operations, as well…
GLEIF Adds Two Validation Agents in Drive to Increase Global LEI Adoption
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) has added two validation agents to its LEI issuance scheme in recent weeks, easing adoption of the identifier and extending its reach in Africa. The foundation has also published its 2020 annual report, noting a rise in LEI numbers and a 2021 focus on the validation agent role introduced in…
Sponsored Blog: FRTB: Local Rules Divergences Add Complexity
By Fausto Marseglia, Head of Product Management, FRTB and Regulatory Propositions, Refinitiv. As the implementation date for FRTB approaches, differing local interpretations of the rules are adding further complexity to an already multi-faceted challenge facing banks. The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) forms part of the Basel III framework with aim of making…
Sova Capital Selects Appway for Onboarding and KYC Refresh
Sova Capital has selected Appway, a provider of workflow orchestration, to provide solutions for a digital onboarding and KYC refresh. Sova will streamline its workflows using Appway’s Onboarding for Wealth, KYC and Regulatory Review solutions, and will support direct client interactions with Appway’s Client Engagement Hub. Sova Capital is an FCA authorised and regulated broker…
Data integrity: Your key to confidence in a complex regulatory environment
Despite the recent challenges of the Covid pandemic, regulators have made it clear that they will not accept reporting errors, particularly those that are related to data. Enforcement is more stringent, scrutiny is more in-depth, and the pressure is on to ensure – and demonstrate – that the data underpinning your reporting and activities is…
Refinitiv Integrates World-Check and EPIC to Fortify the Fight Against Fraud
Refinitiv has integrated World-Check and the EPIC platform from GIACT, which it acquired late last year, behind a single API, bringing together the former’s risk intelligence data and the latter’s ability to positively identify and authenticate customers in the fight against fraud and risk-related threats. “For over a decade, legacy solutions have failed to adequately…