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SteelEye Eyes North American Expansion with Beacon-Led Funding Round

UK-based regulatory data integration specialist SteelEye has secured £5 million of new funding from Boston-based Beacon Equity Partners, a private equity focused on the financial technology space, to finance its expansion into the North American marketplace. The company has already opened an office in Boston and is in the process of adding 22 new staff…

Preparing for IFPR: The Time to Act is Now

By Kwame Frimpong, Regulatory Product Manager at Wolters Kluwer FRR. 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. While key details of the new rules remain to be finalized, panellists joining me on a…

Recorded Webinar: Trade surveillance: Deploying monitoring and surveillance capabilities for today’s new normal

Let’s face it: The old ways aren’t coming back. A plethora of challenges brought on by the covid-19 pandemic, coupled with unrelenting market volatility and uncertainty, have pushed financial service firms to look for rigorous monitoring and surveillance solutions to meet the demands of the emerging trading landscape. Working from home (WFH) has increased the…

SmartStream Adds AI to Reconciliation Platform

UK-based SmartStream Technologies has launched TLM Aurora Universal Data Control, an AI-enabled platform for managing the complex data underpinning firms’ reconciliations activities. TLM Aurora UDC builds on the technology used for SmartStream’s Air, its next-generation AI solution for reconciliation processing, version 2 of which was officially launched in October last year. Air introduces advanced AI…

Broadridge’s $2.5 Billion Itiviti Deal Aims to Simplify Firms’ Front-to-Back Workflow

Broadridge Financial Services is seeking to bolster its multi-jurisdictional reach with the €2.143 billion (approximately $2.5 billion) cash acquisition of Scandinavian trading and connectivity solutions provider Itiviti, announced last week. Itiviti’s order and execution management systems (OEMS) and messaging middleware give Broadridge a strong presence in the front office. But it also addresses clients’ needs…

Russell Investments Modernises Compliance Using ACA’s ComplianceAlpha

Russell Investments has embarked on a major modernisation of its risk and compliance programme based on ACA Group’s ComplianceAlpha managed service. The vision is to create a single platform to establish a single source of truth for all relevant data and analysis, boosting the effectiveness and efficiency of its risk and compliance teams. The initiative…

Recorded Webinar: Developing operational resilience

Financial institutions’ operational resilience – essentially the ability to prevent, adapt and respond to, and recover and learn from operational disruptions – has come under extreme pressure during the coronavirus pandemic, with last year’s March lockdown creating unprecedented circumstances for financial firms. Employees working from home raised the stakes, as they still do, adding to…

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)…

With First CFTC Limits Deadline Past, FundApps Urges Firms to Plan for Next Wave

Practitioners reported general readiness for the introduction last week of new CFTC rules around position limits, a decade after the regulator first floated its plans for changing them. Regulated firms are now being urged to prepare for further changes scheduled for next year, which will introduce new exchange rules and federal limits on derivatives contracts…

IPSX Creates Integrated Technology Framework Ahead of First Admission

UK-based IPSX, which describes itself as the world’s first regulated stock exchange dedicated to real estate assets, has pulled together an integrated technology environment and a set of standardised data workflows ahead of its first ‘Intention to Float’ (ITF) on its IPSX Wholesale market, scheduled for next month. IPSX has been working with a plethora…