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Azentio Partners Regula to Automate Identity Proofing In Digital Onboarding Solutions
Azentio Software, a Singapore-based technology firm, has made a strategic partnership with Regula, a global developer of forensic devices and identity verification solutions, to improve its digital onboarding solutions. Two Regula solutions, Regula Document Reader SDK and Regula Face SDK, will be integrated with Azentio ONEBanking and Azentio ONECapitalMarkets platforms. Regula Document Reader SDK ensures…
Now is the Time to Prepare for January 2025 DORA Compliance Deadline
Rich Cooper, Global Head of Financial Service Go-To-Market at Fusion Risk Management. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which is designed to consolidate and upgrade Information and Communications Technology (ICT) risk requirements and sets out a common set of standards for mitigating risks, takes effect across the EU in January 2025. The legislation covers a…
Compliance Automation Provider Ascent Technologies Acquired by Edgewater Equity Partners
Ascent Technologies, a Chicago-based provider of AI-driven compliance automation, has been acquired by Edgewater Equity Partners, a private equity firm in Boston. The acquisition aims to accelerate development of Ascent’s compliance automation platform and enhance its value proposition to customers. The acquisition is a strategic move for Edgewater Equity Partners, which acknowledges Ascent’s capability in…
Encompass Plans Corporate Digital Identity Platform Following Acquisition of CoorpID and Blacksmith KYC
Encompass Corporation, a provider of real-time digital Know Your Customer (KYC) profiles, has acquired CoorpID and Blacksmith KYC from ING to develop a platform that solves the critical challenge of identification and verification of corporate and institutional clients. ING will be a stakeholder and development partner to Encompass and will use the platform in the…
Delta Capita and Montis Group Enhance Partnership to Develop Advanced Digital Securities CSD Infrastructure
Delta Capita and Montis Group have announced the expansion of their commercial partnership, building on their initial success in developing the Montis Central Securities Depositary (CSD) system. This digitally-native CSD system, powered by Delta Capita’s MACH Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) platform, is designed to provide the market infrastructure needed for regulated tokenised assets, in the…
Regulated Firms that Don’t Trust Electronic Identification Verification Risk Financial Crime
More than 36% of people in regulated firms who ‘can’t trust’ electronic identity verification technology and instead rely on manual checks are leaving their doors open to financial crime, according to research by anti-money laundering specialist SmartSearch. This statistic, from SmartSearch’s 2023 annual survey of 500 compliance stakeholders across financial, accountancy, property and legal services,…
DTIF Partners DLC Distributed Ledger Consulting to Add Crypto Risk Metrics to Digital Token Identifiers
The Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF), created by Etrading Software to provide ISO standard identifiers for digital assets based on open data principles, has reached agreement with DLC Distributed Ledger Consulting to display a crypto risk metrics score on Digital Token Identifiers (DTIs) for commonly traded tokens. The metric score, combined with the DTI standard,…
Regulations for UK Digital Securities Sandbox Come into Force on 8 January 2024
Regulations for the UK’s first Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) will come into force on 8 January 2024, enabling financial market infrastructures and new entrants to experiment with developing technologies in a more flexible legal and regulatory environment than the existing framework. To date, the government says it has received 19 expressions of interest from financial…
Confluence Partners Manaos to Provide SFDR Reporting Solution
Confluence Technologies, a solutions provider helping investment managers solve complex data challenges, has partnered Manaos, the investment data management platform designed and incubated by the securities services business of BNP Paribas, to provide a reporting solution for Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR). The partnership allows Confluence to provide an end-to-end SFDR solution to asset managers…
Planixs Releases Realiti Insights for Regulatory, Risk Analysis
Planixs, which provides cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions, has launched Realiti Insights, a data and analytics service that helps financial institutions identify threats and opportunities from their regulatory, risk and business information. Realiti Insights allows senior management and operational teams to interrogate disparate data sets using an intuitive user interface that allows access to…