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Recorded Webinar: Meeting the challenges of regulatory change

Regulatory change is constant, complex and challenging, calling on financial institutions to attend to details of change whether relatively minor or large scale. Recent regulatory changes include MiFID II post-trade transparency requirements, including ESMA’s increase in data continuity checks that brokers must prepare for, and trading venues must make, when reporting instrument reference and quantitative…

Russell Investments Selects ACA’s ARRMA Service to Improve Regulatory Reporting

Russell Investments has selected ACA Group’s Regulatory Reporting Monitoring and Assurance (ARRMA) service to manage its transaction reporting arrangements. The deal covers EMIR reporting and adds to ACA’s provision of MiFIR assurance reviews for Russell Investments since May 2021. The service combines technology and consulting, and will help the investment firm identify and remediate transaction…

It’s Time to Embrace Risk Profiling for Regulatory Compliance

By Richard Pike, Managing Director, KYR Solutions, MyComplianceOffice. Regulations, frameworks, policies and controls define the day-to-day of Chief Compliance Officers (CCO) and their teams in what can best be described as a world of monitoring spaghetti. At the same time, the teams also need to ensure they are keeping senior executives and the front office…

Recorded Webinar: Perpetual KYC: compliance as the source of better business

Perpetual KYC (pKYC) opens the door for financial institutions and corporations to improve customer onboarding & monitoring processes, reduce operational costs, ensure regulatory compliance, and better understand risk exposures in real time. Unlike traditional or periodic KYC, pKYC continually reviews and updates client data in near real-time providing ongoing data accuracy and accurate risk management….

Darlington Building Society Taps LexisNexis’ RiskNarrative to Combat Financial Crime

Darlington Building Society has selected LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ RiskNarrative platform to support its financial crime prevention strategy and improve its existing online member portal experience and customer onboarding journeys. The implementation is part of the UK building society’s ongoing digital transformation programme to digitalise its overall customer journey, including automated document verification and due diligence…

Txtsmarter Completes Series A, Names Green as New CEO

Messaging surveillance specialist Txtsmarter has completed its Series A funding in a round led by Carolina Financial Group, a North Carolina investment bank. The company also used the occasion to appoint a new CEO, Edward Green, who succeeds Nuri Otus, who has left the company. Txtsmarter will use the unspecified funds to expand its services…

A-Team Group-Partnered Publication Looks into the FinTech Crystal Ball

Charting the digitalisation of the financial industry is the beating heart of what we do at A-Team Group. And we are delighted and proud to have had the opportunity to take our messaging further, for the first time co-producing a special supplement on the Future of Finance in a major British national newspaper. The “Future…

Best Practice Approaches to Cross-Product Market Surveillance

As perpetrators of financial crime become more sophisticated, regulators worldwide are focusing more of their efforts on cross-product and cross-market manipulation, as evidenced by a growing number of high-profile prosecutions. Led by the UK’s FSA and the EU’s ESMA, regulators in key global markets are targeting sophisticated operators, whose cross-product activities typically involve  are able…

Compliance.ai Plans Market Growth and Expansion on Back of $6 Million Funding Round

Compliance.ai, a provider of regulatory change management solutions, has secured $6 million of funding, which it will use to promote market growth and expansion. At the same time, the company has brought in a new CEO, Asif Alam, who will replace Kayvan Alikhani, who will continue innovating Compliance.ai products as co-founder and chief product/strategy officer….

ION Releases Compliance SaaS to Target Tier 2 / 3 Buy Sides

ION Markets is targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 asset management firms with its new Compliance SaaS solution, which helps firms comply with regulations globally as well as internal policies governing their investment activities on behalf of clients. The new platform uses Web technologies to offer SaaS and HTML 5 delivery of the former Sentinel…