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EastNets Partners with Refinitiv for AML, Compliance Solution
EastNets, a provider of automated compliance and payment solutions, today announced a tie-up with financial markets data and infrastructure giant Refinitiv, which will provide enhanced automated access to software and data to enable real-time risk management and enhanced compliance capabilities. The partnership will deliver an enhanced integration of Refinitiv’s Risk Intelligence data within EastNets’ cutting-edge…
KRM22 Launches Market Risk Solution for Global Risk Platform
KRM22 has announced the availability of its Market Risk solution on its SaaS-based Global Risk Platform.The Global Risk Platform now provides an “end to end” Market Risk solution assisting futures clearing merchants, asset managers, broker dealers and hedge funds with their risk management. Risk tools provide analytics to help portfolio management and modify trading behaviour,…
A-Team RegTech Summit Emphasises Urgency of Efficient, Enterprise-Wide Compliance
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit made a triumphant return to a full house in New York last Thursday, with an excellent turnout of over 230 practitioners, regulators, start-ups and solution providers all keen to explore how the financial services industry can best leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change. Colin Ware, Global…
DTCC Delivers Beta Version of FRTB Data Service
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a beta version of its FRTB Real Price Observations Data Service. The service enables the mapping of risk factors to a pool of global derivatives data to gain insight on modellability results in accordance with the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) framework. FRTB, released…
Taming the Regulatory Beast with Advanced Data Integration Techniques
The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly complex regulatory environment – one that demands an unprecedented level of data access and integration, for which, it seems, the both the industry and its regulators remain surprisingly under-prepared. A recent white paper from JWG and MarkLogic entitled ‘Ready for Digital Regulation?’ predicts that there…
CFTE Launches RegTech Book, Online Course
The UK-based Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE), a platform providing online learning for the FinTech space, has announced the launch of a targeted new online RegTech course providing a “thorough foundation of regulatory technologies” through eight hours of video content, curated readings and online assessment. The announcement was made at the London launch…
SteelEye Launches RegTech Glossary
London-based regulatory compliance and data analytics firm SteelEye has published a new RegTech glossary that aims to demystify the complex language of the RegTech sector. The online guide aims to assist professionals to navigate the most common terminology, abbreviations and jargon across the evolving regulatory landscape.
SM&CR: The Countdown Begins
This weekend marks just one month to go until SM&CR goes live for all solo-regulated firms, replacing the FCA’s previous Approved Persons Regime (APR) and bringing with it a host of new data management requirements and challenges. A survey published by ACA Compliance in August this year warned that less 2% of firms had completed…
2020 and Beyond: What Does the Future Look Like for Model Risk Management?
By Henry Umney, CEO of ClusterSeven. Model risk management is at the very heart of the financial industry, with models providing the quantitative data required to make informed decisions every single day. In today’s increasingly digital world, institutions are beginning to rely more heavily on models than ever before. The uses of these models are…
EU Benchmarks Regulation: An Opportunity in Disguise?
The switch from Libor to new benchmarks under the EU’s Benchmarks Regulation has been heralded as one of the most significant changes to the financial markets in recent years. With wide-ranging implications for multiple functions across financial institutions, the reform poses substantial compliance challenges – but could also create new opportunities, specifically around the necessary…