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Operational Resilience Ranks High on Regulators’ List of Concerns
Increased regulatory scrutiny of operational resilience in capital markets is forcing firms to take a more proactive approach to maintaining critical business functions. Continuity planning inevitably comes into focus during major events such as a global pandemic. But regulators’ concerns around the prevalence of other incidents – from ransomware attacks to natural disasters – have…
Digital Regulatory Reporting: The Turning Point for Compliance in 2022
By Leo Labeis, CEO at REGnosys. Regulatory reporting has long been mired by ambiguous and conflicting rules but new requirements this year and an industry-wide move to greater collaboration look set to usher in much needed change. For financial institutions, the upcoming CFTC Rewrite and EMIR Refit deadlines present a timely opportunity to review their…
Best Transaction Reporting Solutions
Transaction reporting is demanded of financial institutions by multiple regulatory regimes, with the goal of detecting suspected market abuse or money laundering. To comply, firms need to ensure their systems are able to deliver complete and accurate information about the financial instrument traded, the firm undertaking the trade, the buyer and seller, and the date…
Euroclear to Use Taskize for CSDR Penalty Appeals
Euroclear is expanding its use of Taskize’s collaboration tools as the preferred channel for its 2,000+ members to appeal penalties at both the International Central Securities Depository (ICSD) and its domestic CSDs, under the upcoming CSDR Settlement Discipline Regime. Using a Taskize Bubble that has been specifically built around a penalty appeal template, Euroclear members…
Trade Surveillance Hindered by Fragmented Systems, VoxSmart Study Finds
Almost 70% of financial institutions believe that fragmentation of their approach due to siloed surveillance systems increases the risk of market abuse, according to a VoxSmart survey of almost 80 investment banks, brokers, and investment managers. The findings come as the potential for market abuse continues to accelerate globally as financial institutions continue to adjust…
BNP Paribas Adds IHS Markit as Calculator for Uncleared Margin Rules
BNP Paribas Securities Services has added IHS Markit as an initial margin calculation source to its existing service for clients that are in-scope for Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) in derivatives markets. The expanded collaboration complements the valuations services that IHS Markit has provided BNP Paribas Securities Services since 2012. BNP Paribas offers a full end-to-end solution for Regulatory Initial…
SteelEye Gains SOC 2 Certification
Compliance and data analytics provider SteelEye has secured System and Organisation Controls (SOC) 2 certification. Defined by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), and covering the principles of Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity and Privacy, SOC 2 assesses firms’ safeguarding of customer data. The accreditation underpins SteelEye’s efforts to ensure robust data security.
Concern Remains as Delay, Revision and Data Hang Over FRTB
The proposed Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) was formulated to protect banks against a repeat of the devastation caused to the sector during the 2008 financial crisis. Initially suggested in 2012, it was drawn up in 2016 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), and revised in 2019 with a view to…
Video: Adaptive CEO’s View on what’s to Come in Trading Technology
Matt Barrett, CEO & Co-Founder of Adaptive Financial Consulting discusses what’s to come in trading technology, how the pandemic has “created a once in a generation rapid acceleration of change in the way people interact in capital markets”, and why he’s looking forward to speaking at TradingTech Summit London on 22 February. If you’d like…
Video: Adaptive CEO’s View on what’s to Come in Trading Technology
Matt Barrett, CEO & Co-Founder of Adaptive Financial Consulting discusses what’s to come in trading technology, how the pandemic has “created a once in a generation rapid acceleration of change in the way people interact in capital markets”, and why he’s looking forward to speaking at TradingTech Summit London on 22 February. If you’d like…