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Moody’s to Acquire RDC in GRC Push
Moody’s Corporation has confirmed plans to buy customer screening and KYC/AML data provider Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) for $700 million, from private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. The deal continues Moody’s push into the data and compliance arena following its 2017 acquisition of BvD in a transaction valuing the company at $3 billion. It’s too early…
Recorded Webinar: High noon for surveillance: resolving tension between the costs of false positives, challenges of calibration, and compliance
When it comes to trade surveillance, regulators want firms to do their own alert calibration, examine all alerts, and keep auditable records. Firms need to balance the real cost of false positives with the technical challenge and risk of self-calibrating and auto-calibrating, while compliance, IT and vendors have to grapple with the need for defensible…
AxiomSL Establishes Business Operations Centre in Ireland
Regulatory reporting and risk management solutions provider AxiomSL is opening a new business operations centre in the National Technology Park in Limerick, Ireland, with plans to create up to 100 jobs over the next five years. The centre will initially house technical support and product management for AxiomSL’s RegCloud offering, and is supported by the…
SteelEye Partners with TeleMessage to Solve the Mobile Communications Conundrum
Recent regulations, including MiFID II, have introduced highly prescriptive rules about the recording, storage and access requirements of voice and electronic communications relating to financial dealings. With all relevant telephone conversations and electronic communications now required to be recorded – including those which take place on mobile phones – surveillance technology is not only a…
Are You Keeping Up With The Regulator?
By Dr Bimal Roy Bhanu, Group CEO at Ai XPRT. Not many things in life are certain, but in the financial services industry it’s obvious to all participants that regulators are continually tightening the national and international governance, risk and compliance requirements. The ultimate aim for firms in 2020 is to stay one step ahead…
Expert Group Urges EU Regulatory Reform to Encourage Fintech Innovation
The European Commission Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation has published its long-awaited report on how to improve and strengthen the regional FinTech landscape and encourage greater investment and innovation, along with ending regulatory fragmentation and establishing a more robust regulatory framework. Made up of industry experts, financial institutions, academics and lawyers,…
FSB Weighs In On Risks Inherent In Cloud Adoption For Financial Service
The rapid adoption of cloud computing and data services by financial institutions could raise new implications for financial stability, warns global regulatory body the Financial Stability Board (FSB) – including a lack of transparency when it comes to legal and regulatory compliance. A new report from the FSB released this week highlights potential issues for…
12 Days of Compliance
By Philip Naughton, Partner, ACA Compliance Group. On the first day of Christmas, the industry gave to me…. twelve recurring compliance issues Unfortunately, when it comes to compliance programmes this Christmas, UK financial services firms are still making the same errors, over and over again. Recent compliance reviews carried out by ACA Compliance on financial…
SMCR Now Underway – But Are Firms Ready?
Yesterday the Senior Managers and Certification Regime came into force for the asset management industry, bringing into the fold the remaining 47,000 FCA-regulated firms who must now start performing additional checks, providing formal statements and submitting data on appointed managers. But with some uncertainty around how strict the regulator will be in its approach to…
Broadridge Uses Blockchain to Address European SRD II Compliance
With the Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II) regulatory compliance deadline fast approaching, intermediaries supporting institutional and/or retail clients face one of the biggest changes in European corporate governance in many years. And according to Broadridge, many businesses are not yet ready for the transition – which is expected to place considerable pressure both on…