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From Panic to Progress: Tackling the Trade Surveillance Data Challenge
Travis Schwab, CEO, Eventus. Over the past year, global regulators have hit firms with massive fines for lapses in data governance. This has triggered a state of near-panic across trade surveillance teams as they scramble to avoid a similar fate. In fact, there has been little time for much else. As one head of surveillance…
Transforming Compliance: Key Takeaways from the RegTech Summit Panel on GenAI and LLMs
A deep dive on Generative AI (GenAI) in compliance was the focus of the first panel session at the recent A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York. The panel comprised Erin Preston, Chief Compliance Officer, Wedbush Securities; Harsh Pandya, Vice President, Product Management, Saifr; Brandon Carl, EVP, Product Strategy, Smarsh; and Rachna Srivastava, Head of…
Behavioural Surveillance: Key Insights from the Smarsh -Sponsored Webinar on Conduct Risk Management
A recent webinar hosted by RegTech Insight and sponsored by Smarsh, brought together industry leaders to explore innovative strategies for tackling conduct risk. The panel included Sepehr Irandoost, Head of Global Surveillance Effectiveness and Efficiency, Bank of America; Marili Anderson, Head of Compliance, Rabobank; Theo Hill, Senior Director of Product Management, Smarsh. Managing conduct risk…
ACA Updates ESG Platform with Greater Private Market Capabilities
Governance, risk and compliance advisory firm ACA Group has updated its ESG data management platform to provide more flexibility to its private investment clients. The New York-based company has retooled the ACA Vantage for ESG platform it launched in 2022 after acquiring ESG data specialist Ethos. The new iteration enables greater configuration of data and…
FINRA’s 2024 New and Updated Guidelines on AI and GenAI/LLM Integration
In 2024, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) expanded its guidance on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the securities industry, placing particular emphasis on generative AI (GenAI) and large language models. This builds upon FINRA’s ongoing efforts since 2020 to ensure that member firms adhere to existing regulatory frameworks while adopting advanced technologies. The recent…
Why NatWest’s e-Comms Channel Ban Sparks Debate: Insights from Symphony’s Brad Levy
NatWest’s recent decision to ban popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger on company devices has reignited debate over how financial institutions manage off-channel communications. Brad Levy, CEO of Symphony shared his insights with RegTech Insight on why channel bans are only a temporary solution to a complex issue. Levy argues that there is…
UK Budget Puts Corporate Actions Automation Back on the Agenda
By Yogita Mehta, Commercial Product Director – Corporate Actions, Financial Information, SIX. Expectations around the UK budget in October last month have been consistently making headlines since even before its was announced. One area that is expected to be impacted because of the changes announced by Rachel Reeves is market appetite for M&A activity, with…
A-Team Group Names RegTech Insight – USA 2024 Award Winners
You have all voted and the results are in – A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2024. The awards acknowledge leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across the USA, and the winners were named following the company’s 8th annual RegTech Summit in New York…
Fenergo 2024 KYC Survey Highlights Institutional Investor Churn and Compliance Costs
The cost of inefficiency in Know Your Customer (KYC) processes goes far beyond regulatory penalties. According to the Global KYC Trends in 2024 for Asset Management report by CLM platform provider Fenergo, 74% of asset managers surveyed reported losing investors due to slow, complex, and disjointed onboarding processes. These losses are not just missed opportunities—they…
DTCC’s Enhanced VaR Calculator for Potential Cross-Margin Reductions
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has updated its Value at Risk (VaR) calculator to include cross-margining and repo transaction functionalities, aimed at improving firms’ risk management capabilities ahead of expanded U.S. Treasury clearing requirements expected in 2025 and 2026. These enhancements, introduced through the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC) Government Securities Division (GSD),…