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Broadridge Announces Record New Signings as SRD II Deadline Approaches
In response to the upcoming September 3, 2020 deadline for the European Commission (EC)’s updated Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II), Broadridge Financial Solutions this week confirmed a record number of new signings for its SRD II solution. “We are witnessing strong demand, and we are market-ready with our end-to-end solution across the shareholder communications chain,” says…
Recorded Webinar: Address Emerging Operational Risk and Alleviating Data Blind Spots with AI Powered Risk Management
The digitalisation of financial services is in full flight, as financial institutions strive to offer the same levels of service and improved customer experience that consumer markets have enjoyed for some time. This digitalisation – providing seamless access to appropriate services on demand – requires great emphasis on client data. This changing digital landscape, and…
COVID-19 Effects on NSFR Reporting: Financial Institutions Must Set Sail Strategically Amid Choppy Seas
By AxiomSL. Concerns that effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a global liquidity crisis have caused a surge in regulatory requirements for liquidity monitoring and reporting that have hugely strained financial institutions. Meeting the net stable funding ratio (NSFR) lies at the heart of this operational and strategic challenge. New Standards On The…
Why Is Now the Time for the Financial Markets to Focus on Collaboration Compliance?
By Phil Fry, VP of Financial Compliance Product Strategy at Verint. The seismic impact of the pandemic has seen many banks and financial institutions ramp up their use of next-generation communication solutions, to assist their employees to work from home and alternative locations. During lockdowns, trades and client orders, that were traditionally executed at corporate sites, moved…
Recorded Webinar: The Transformation of Buy-Side Market Surveillance
Asset managers, hedge funds, insurance firms, and other buy-side firms globally are becoming more active in their approach to market surveillance, as regulatory pressure to up their game mounts. Buy-side firms are now building out their surveillance infrastructure as they seek to respond to the requirements posed by Dodd-Frank, MiFID II and the Market Abuse…
Using Artificial Intelligence to Know Your Customers, not your Criminals
By Hugo Chamberlain, smartKYC. How can just searching for ‘adverse media’ on your customer mean you are getting to ‘know’ them at all? In this article we ask, are we really harnessing the full power of KYC technologies? With an abundance of mounting regulations, it is only natural that Know Your Customer screening has been…
Danish Regulator Reports Danske Bank for Market Abuse, Launches AML Enquiry
Denmark’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) has reported the country’s largest lender, Danske Bank, for violating the prohibition on market manipulation. The regulator alleges that the bank facilitated “wash trades” (where the same entity both buys and sells securities) between 2016-19, as well as failing to properly monitor and report transactions. Danske’s chief compliance officer Philippe…
Crunch Time for RegTech Providers and FI Adopters
While the coronavirus pandemic has slowed the rate of innovation in capital markets, it has also highlighted a need for change that is expected to be driven by both the capabilities of RegTech providers and the acknowledgement by financial institutions that they must embrace innovation to resolve external client pain points and internal inefficiencies. These…
mBank Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Risk Management
mBank, Poland’s fourth largest banking group based on assets, has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Risk Management as its risk software. The mobile digital bank operates across three markets in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The bank will specifically use the Wolters Kluwer’s solution for Asset and Liability Management (ALM) as well as Market…
Recorded Webinar: Overcoming the Barriers to Implementing RegTech Solutions: The View from Either Side of the Fence
RegTech holds the promise of targeted, agile and often low-cost solutions to the real-world problems faced by financial institutions across the board. So why is it so difficult to get RegTech projects off the ground? RegTech solutions providers complain that it’s difficult to get access to decision-makers, and even when they do it’s tough to…