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The Case for Effective AML Controls as the FCA Highlights Financial Crime Concerns, Targets Transaction Reporting

Alongside the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Annual Report and Accounts 2018/19 released this week, the regulator also published its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Annual Report. Part of a wider focus on financial crime (which includes the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing of November 2017 and an FCA thematic review on capital…

Recorded Webinar: Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) – challenge or opportunity?

Are you ready to meet the requirements of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) when it comes into force for all firms authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in December 2019? Have you allocated all your staff to one of the four categories available under SMCR? Has your firm prepared a ‘statement of…

Wolters Kluwer Launches OneSumX SaaS Regulatory Reporting Solution

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business has launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) Regulatory Reporting solution, marking the first time that the company’s OneSumX regulatory software has been made available on the cloud. The SaaS solution offers the same functionality as the company’s on-premise product, based on the upgraded OneSumX Regulatory Engine technology platform. The…

UK Regulators Eye Up Digital Regulatory Reporting

UK regulators are stepping up their efforts to digitise regulatory reporting over the next few years. The changes the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) propose – and which are being developed jointly with the industry – promise a transformation in the way data flows between supervisors and financial services firms….

The Model Muddle

By Richard Moss, Product Manager, AxiomSL. Many financial institutions (FIs) find themselves wondering how they became mired in a credit model muddle that is dragging down their profitability. They want to know how they can get out of this swamp. Traditionally, FIs heavily relied on economic capital models to support business decision-making. Then, with the…

EBA Publishes FRTB Roadmap, Launches Consultation

Prior to the implementation of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), now scheduled for January 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) on June 27 issued a new roadmap for market and counterparty credit risk approaches, providing a comprehensive overview of deliverables in the area of market and counterparty credit risk and outlines the…

EBA Warns of £135bn Bank Shortfall for Basel IV

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that the EU’s biggest banks could face a funding gap of up to £135bn in order to comply with Basel IV, an updated set of post-crisis regulations expected to be phased in from 2022 and be in full force by 2027. The EBA estimates that banks could face…

Dion Global Releases Corporate Actions Solution

Dion Global Solutions has released a corporate actions solution. Already live with two pilot customers, the solution is designed to make corporate actions processing cost effective for the smallest industry participants and scalable for the largest. It aims to decrease manual processing by increasing automation, and reduce risk by ensuring no event is missed or…

ClauseMatch Parters with Singapore’s Ingenia

Following on from its recent expansion into Singapore, UK-based regtech firm ClauseMatch has announced its first partnership in the region, with independent consultancy Ingenia. The alliance aims to provide ‘Compliance-as-a-Service’ for small and medium-sized financial institutions in Singapore, based on Ingenia’s existing service of developing and maintaining compliance networks for financial institutions who outsource their…

Coinform to Investigate Ripple’s AML Compliance

US regtech start-up Coinfirm has signed an agreement with San Francisco-based Ripple, the company behind cryptocurrency XRP, to investigate the crypto’s compliance with AML regulations. The move comes in advance of a planned crackdown by US authorities on cryptocurrency exchanges, following an announcement by the Financial Action Task Force report in June of tighter regulation…