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Citi, State Street Join FundGuard Platform as Part of $40 Million Funding

Citi and State Street Corp. have joined existing investors in FundGuard’s $40 million Series B funding round, becoming strategic partners in the company’s bid to establish a SaaS-based investment management and asset services platform. With ‘anchor tenants’ Citi and State Street on board, FundGuard is now launching efforts to add more specialised providers of capabilities…

Energy Firm Vitol Deploys Relativity Trace to Combat Market Abuse

Energy and commodity trading company Vitol has deployed Chicago-based Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform, Relativity Trace, to proactively detect regulatory misconduct. Relativity Trace’s alerting capabilities can help reduce false positives, with Vitol experiencing a 92% reduction on false positive alerting, according to Relativity. Vitol implemented Relativity Trace in just under four months. The system is now used…

What is Digital Transformation and How Do You Get it Right?

While financial institutions are grasping the opportunities offered by the digital transformation of their activities, a number of impediments are hampering some from extending the strategy to their operations teams in the back office. A stubborn corporate culture, fear of change and a lack of planning are just some of the challenges cited by industry…

Recorded Webinar: The future of KYC and AML: How to tackle the challenges and gain the opportunities of perpetual KYC

Perpetual Know Your Customer (or pKYC) could be a game changer for client onboarding, due diligence and financial crime compliance. Moving on from today’s reactive approach that conducts client KYC processes at onboarding and typically at one, three and five year intervals, pKYC takes a proactive approach, creating a digital KYC profile and dynamically refreshing…

A-Team Group Names Winners of Innovation Awards 2022

A-Team Group has named the winners of its prestigious Innovation Awards 2022. The awards, now in their second year, celebrate innovative projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. This year’s platinum award winners include Bloomberg, oneZero,…

Top 6 Use Cases for AI in RegTech

As artificial intelligence’s influence on regtech continues to grow, so does the importance of minimising algorithm bias and maximising data quality. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in RegTech is playing an increasingly important role and helping to reshape risk and regulatory compliance. It can offer many benefits and we outline the…

Encompass Plans Global Growth Acceleration Following £25 Million Funding Round

Encompass, a provider of automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has completed a capital raise of £25 million. The funds will be used to accelerate global growth, particularly in the US where the company opened its first office in New York in October 2021, and in Europe where an office was recently opened in Amsterdam….

SmartStream Combines Air, RDU to Offer Comprehensive Transaction Reporting for MiFID II

SmartStream Technologies has combined its SmartStream RDU reference data utility with its SmartStream Air (Artificial Intelligence Reconciliations) solution to create a new offering that provides regulated entities with comprehensive reporting capabilities for MiFID II. The new solution – Transaction Reporting Reconciliation and Reporting Decision Control – aims to address regulators’ growing requirement for completeness and accuracy…

Everything You Need to Know About the EU Whistleblowing Directive

It is widely acknowledged that employees who report misconduct within their organisations play a key role in exposing breaches and preventing similar incidents from happening in the future. However, potential whistleblowers are often discouraged from reporting their concerns or suspicions for fear of retaliation. In this context, the European Union deemed it necessary to provide…

Need for Regulatory Clarity on Digital Assets Emerges as Key Theme at A-Team’s TradingTech Summit

The need for regulatory clarity emerged as the issue most needing resolution before institutions fully embrace the world of digital assets, delegates at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit in London heard. The TradingTech Summit saw a welcome return to the physical world this week, following last year’s break due to the Covid-induced lockdown. The event was…