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Recorded Webinar: Getting ready for Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and ESG – what action should asset managers be taking now?
Interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment has exploded in recent years, bringing with it regulation and a requirement for buy-side firms to develop ESG strategies and meet disclosure obligations. The sell-side can help here by integrating ESG data with traditional financial information, although the compliance burden remains with asset managers. The EU Sustainable…
Acin Enhances Operational Risk Control Platform
Acin has enhanced its SaaS-based operational risk control platform, adding a new Acin Score facility as well as forward-looking scenario analysis and emerging risk assessment capabilities. The enhancements seek to address financial institutions’ need for a holistic approach to operational risk to mitigate against expensive process failures, financial losses, regulatory penalties and reputational damage. The…
Relativity Acquires Text IQ to Boost Surveillance, Legal Review Capabilities
Legal and compliance technology company Relativity has acquired Text IQ, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify sensitive data for financial services clients including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, US Bank and Bank of America. Relativity says the acquisition will augment its surveillance and legal review capabilities, in particular general privilege reviews for litigation, and responses…
ComplyAdvantage Tops Up Series C Funding with Goldman Sachs Investment
ComplyAdvantage, a financial crime compliance specialist, has received new investment from Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. The investment will be used to build on the company’s rapid growth and cement its position as a critical part of the value chain for companies managing evolving risks around anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) processes, as…
Recorded Webinar: Best practices for regulatory reporting
Regulatory reporting has been a cost and resource burden for financial institutions for many years, with the race to compliance in a highly regulated market often leading to multiple, singular regulatory reporting solutions. Legacy systems add to the challenges of making reporting changes in line with adapted and new regulations. This webinar will address these…
Surveillance 2.0 – Turn Up the Signal, Wipe Out the Noise
By Joseph Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus Systems. Trade surveillance is a complex discipline, dependent on the processing and filtering of masses of data. Its mandate is constantly increasing too, with the relentless iterations of regulatory and market change demanding the monitoring of more asset classes across more business lines and against an…
Advancing Regulatory Data Collections Systems
By Ken Lamar, Founder and Principal Partner, Lamar Associates LLC (With Robert Lee, Executive Director, North America Client Engagement, AxiomSL). Regulators are beginning a journey to design the next generation of data collection systems. A critical aspect of the design process is the need for new data capabilities to effectively conduct supervisory activities to ensure…
Recorded Webinar: Data management for ESG requirements
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is moving into the mainstream, requiring asset managers to develop ESG strategies that deliver for both the firm and its investors. While these strategies can outperform those that do not include ESG factors, there is no clear route to success in an immature market that is only just beginning…
One Year On: Banks Resume Prioritization of FRTB, but Same Challenges Persist
By: Essan Soobratty, Regulatory Product Manager, and Eugene Stern, Head of Market Risk Product, Bloomberg. One year on from the start of the global pandemic which sent global markets into turmoil and prompted regulators to introduce a range of emergency measures to support the financial system and the broader economy, banks are continuing their return…
Recorded Webinar: Improving data integrity to address regulatory requirements
Financial institutions today face a global regulatory landscape characterised by rigorous and varied reporting requirements across their businesses. Reporting challenges include completing more data fields across more lines of business with greater frequency, adding complexity and cost. At the same time, there is waning tolerance among supervisory bodies for errors, issues or delays – as…