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How to Control Access to Single Dealer Portals and Other Market Services
Against the backdrop of rapid adoption of electronic trading across cash asset classes that aren’t typically traded on exchanges, financial institutions are struggling to control access to external trading portals and platforms, and other market services. This phenomenon is presenting a particular challenge in fixed income and foreign exchange markets, where single dealer portals that allow…
DORA – A Step in the Right Direction but it’s not a Home Run
By Monica Oravcova, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Naoris Protocol. Cryptocurrency and digital assets such as NFT’s will most definitely be strong contenders for the defining innovation of this decade. Social platforms and connected media have facilitated an exponential growth in the speed at which new technology and ideas are adopted. Growing in tandem with…
Getting Control of Access to Key Market Services
Use of single dealer portals that allow banks to trade assets on behalf of their clients is growing rapidly, particularly among firms in the fixed income and foreign exchange markets in particular. But while trading portals offer great benefits in terms of broader market reach and enhanced client functionality, they bring risks too. Firms are…
Sikoia Secures $6 Million Funding to Accelerate Growth of Client Onboarding Platform
Sikoia, provider of a unified data platform for client onboarding and counterparty evaluation, has secured $6 million in seed funding, bringing total capital raised to over $8.3 million. The London-based company will use the funding to accelerate international expansion, extend the platform’s data coverage and workflow automation, and develop unique technology to help its clients…
Delivering on ESG Through the Cloud
By Shaun Hurst, Principal Regulatory Advisor for EMEA, Smarsh. ESG, the acronym that refers to the alignment of environmental, social, and governance performance and objectives with company practices and investor strategies, has evolved from being a ‘nice to have’ for companies and financial institutions to a concrete expectation. But with rising regulation, litigation and growing scrutiny…
Themis Secures £3.1 Million Funding for Financial Crime Platform
Themis, provider of a digital financial crime platform, has secured £3.1 million in its latest Pre-Series A funding. The London-based company raised £1.7 million in a seed round in 2021, and will use the funds to continue development of its automated due diligence platform, Themis Search and Monitoring, that was released in 2020. The platform…
EU Regulatory Priorities for 2023, According to our Brussels Insider
Higher Interest Rates, A Volatile Crypto-Asset Environment and the Growth of Opaque Non-Bank Institutions Challenge Central Banks and Regulators in the EU. These were the opening remarks of Dr. David Doyle, an EU financial services regulatory expert, and frequent speaker at A-Team Group conferences, when we met up with him early in the New Year…
Cube Acquires The Hub to Help Clients Automate Compliance Processes
Regulatory data automation specialist Cube has acquired The Hub, a provider of artificial intelligence solutions for capturing and monitoring unstructured regulatory data. Cube plans to integrate The Hub’s technology with its own RegPlatform to allow clients to automate their regulatory compliance processes. The acquisition aims to address what Cube has identified as financial firms’ growing…
Recorded Webinar: New solutions to the old problems of compliance with communications surveillance regulation
Communications surveillance is an integral element of trading at financial institutions, and its functions are clearly set out in jurisdictional regulations – to capture, record and retain all communications. Essentially, all business related communications must be recorded whatever the underlying mechanism – be it a work phone, personal mobile phone, text, video and so on…
RegTech Can Help Solve ESG Data Management and Trust Challenges
As demand for data grows with the acceptance of ESG as a critical part of financial institutions’ business and regulatory activities, focus will intensify on the quality of that information. Asset managers and owners will want the cleanest, most relevant and most comprehensive datasets to identify investment opportunities and risks and to comply with the…