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Recorded Webinar: The UK’s New Prudential Regime for Investment Firms – Time to Prepare!
With the implementation of the new Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR), the FCA is aiming to streamline and simplify the prudential requirements for solo-regulated investment firms in the UK. Under the new regime, all MiFID authorized, Collective Portfolio Management Investment Firms (i.e. UK UCITS ManCo and Alternative Investment Fund Management Firms permitted to undertake Additional Activities)…
China Merchants Bank Selects Appway for Onboarding and KYC Compliance Checks
China Merchants Bank – Singapore branch (CMB SG) has selected Appway to provide client lifecycle management solutions and domain expertise to accelerate the branch’s compliance agility and efficiencies. Appway’s Singapore office will lead the implementation of its Onboarding for Wealth and KYC Review solutions, as well as its Digital Binder product for front to back…
Derivatives Service Bureau Sets Timeline for Consultation on OTC ISIN and CFI Services in 2022
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published the timeline for its 2021 industry consultation on 2022 OTC ISIN and CFI service provision. Core themes focus on providing updates for service enhancements sought last year, as well as risk analysis relating to the DSB’s cybersecurity and cloud resilience. The OTC ISIN and CFI consultation will operate…
Recorded Webinar: Managing the transaction reporting landscape post Brexit: MiFID II, SFTR, EMIR
The transaction reporting landscape has, for many financial institutions, expanded considerably in size since the end of the UK’s Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 and the resulting need for double reporting of some transactions to both EU and UK authorities. It has also changed dramatically following the UK government’s failure to reach equivalence…
Quantexa Innovates AML Monitoring with Contextual Decision Intelligence
Quantexa, a London-based data and analytics company, is innovating Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring and investigation with the use of contextual decision intelligence (CDI), a means of enriching internal data with external data and building networks of relationships to create a contextual view of a customer. The company says complex financial crime in capital markets, including…
Recorded Webinar: The post-Brexit UK sanctions regime – how to stay safe and compliant
When the Brexit transition period came to an end on 31 December 2020, a new sanctions regime was introduced in the UK under legislation set out in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (aka the Sanctions Act). The regime is fundamentally different to that of the EU, requiring financial institutions to rethink their response…
Refinitiv Highlights 2021 ESG Trends
Refinitiv has released its 2021 ESG Playbook: Stability and sustainability in the investment community. The annual publication explores ESG trends for the year based on conversations with 24 industry leaders. Topics featured include the development trajectory for the ESG investing industry and sustainable finance as a whole, regulatory changes, transparency in ESG reporting, quality of…
ESGi – an Element22 and Agility Sciences Solution – Offers Buy-Side Firms Trusted ESG Data Updated in Real Time
Data consultancy Element22 and distributed ledger developer Agility Sciences have released ESGi, an innovative solution designed to solve problems of ESG data, such as time lags and accuracy, and provide buy-side firms with trusted data in real time. The release coincides with the first deadline of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which comes…
FundGuard Plans Product Development to Drive Transparency in Fund Administration
New York-based FundGuard, a pioneer of AI in investment management and asset services, has completed a $12 million Series A funding round. The company will use the funding for product development to meet increased regulatory demands for transparency and resilience in the fund administration segment. The company works with several of the world’s largest fund…
RIMES Offers Insight into Benchmarks and Indexes with Index Identifier Service
RIMES has responded to customer requests for a simplified process to gain insight into benchmarks and indexes with RIMES Technologies Index Identifier (RTID). The service is designed to address issues around identifying and tracking the huge variety of identifiers used by index providers and front-office information platforms such as Bloomberg Tickers and Reuters RICs. RTID…