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Recorded Webinar: Cross-Regulation Data Consistency and Accuracy
Regulatory reporting obligations continue to expand, bringing with them more overlaps of data elements across reporting regimes. As many firms struggle with the accuracy and completeness of individual reporting obligations, regulators have increasingly begun to focus on cross-regulation data consistency in their data validations and examination processes. This webinar will identify cases of data overlap…
A-Team Group Returns to New York with Acclaimed RegTech Summit – Don’t Miss It!
Don’t miss it! A-Team Group is back in New York on 16 November 2022 with its sixth RegTech Summit. The event will be packed with keynotes, presentations and panel sessions hosted by industry leaders and joined by regulators, leading RegTech practitioners, product innovators, and regulatory related organisations. The Summit will be followed by this year’s…
Fenergo Perpetual KYC Service Offers Operational Efficiencies, Reduced Costs and Risk
Fenergo has joined early providers of perpetual KYC services with Smart Review, a solution designed to enable financial institutions to streamline periodic KYC review processes and reduce costs through automation. Smart Review automates the continuous monitoring of client profiles for KYC compliance by identifying all changes to relevant entity data, transactions and anti-money laundering (AML)…
Sustainable Trading Adds Seven New Firms to its Membership Network
Sustainable Trading, the non-profit organisation aiming to transform environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices in the financial markets trading sector, has added seven new firms from across the trading industry to its membership network. Joining the 41 firms already participating in the industry initiative are Barclays, Liquidnet, Mizuho International, Rand Merchant Bank, Schroders, State Street…
Know Your Customer and HAWK AI Partner to Strengthen Defence Against Financial Crime
Know Your Customer, a provider of modular digital client onboarding solutions, and Hawk AI, a provider of anti-money laundering surveillance technology for financial institutions, payment firms and fintechs, have made a strategic partnership that will build a stronger defence against financial crime. The partnership combines Know Your Customer’s digital onboarding and business KYC solutions with…
Buy to Build: How Providers Help Make Unique Trade Surveillance Systems Possible
By Ollie Cadman, Chief Product Officer, Eventus. “Buy versus Build” was a dilemma that financial institutions traditionally faced when working to create modern surveillance systems or other key elements in the risk technology stack. What groups were trying to figure out was whether purchasing products and services was more cost-effective and future-proofed than building a…
AFME Makes Recommendations for Open Finance Framework
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has underlined the importance of a level playing field for responsible data sharing and made recommendations for an Open Finance Framework ahead of the publication of the European Commission’s framework for data access in financial services that is due to be published in coming months. EFMA shares…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2022/2023 – Tenth Edition
Welcome to the tenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a publication that has tracked new regulations, amendments, implementation and data management requirements as regulatory change has impacted global capital markets participants over the past 10 years. This edition of the handbook includes new regulations and highlights some of the major regulatory interventions challenging…
Financial Crime is on the Rise – Banks Need Visibility, Predictability, and Control
By Peter Cregg, Product Director, ActiveOps. The Office for National Statistics revealed that in 2021, that there was a 43% increase in fraud and computer misuse crimes compared to 2019, indicating that economic crime – a broad term that covers a range of financial crimes – is on the rise. The pandemic altered the financial…
FCA Fines Citigroup Global Markets £12.5 Million for Market Abuse Failings
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued Citigroup Global Markets with a fine of more than £12 million for failing to properly implement the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) trade surveillance requirements. The failure meant that Citigroup Global Markets could not effectively monitor its trading activities for certain types of insider dealing and market…