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Shield Launches New SME-Focused Compliance Hub
As first reported by RegTech Insight at the start of September, specialist RegTech provider Shield has officially launched a version of its flagship eComms compliance platform specifically targeting small and medium-sized businesses. With warning signs that the focus of the regulator towards smaller firms has changed, a more rigorous approach to enforcement could be on…
AB Max Sievert Acquires Nasdaq’s Stake in Scila AB
Swedish investment company AB Max Sievert has acquired a minority stake in Stockholm-based surveillance and risk technology provider Scila AB. The minority stake originated from the Nasdaq acquisition of Cinnober in early 2019. Cinnober had a minority shareholding in Scila for over 10 years before being acquired by Nasdaq. Scila AB provides surveillance, AML and…
Recorded Webinar: Client Experience and Onboarding For Transfer Agents: How to ensure you deliver a seamless client experience and differentiate your services
Clients expect you to seamlessly deliver a range of transfer services. They expect you to delight their investors and ensure you have a robust onboarding and compliance process in place. They also want you to help them ensure they comply with shareholding obligations and corporate actions. With digital expectations becoming ever higher, how will you…
RegTech Summit London Fast Approaching – Have You Booked Your Place?
The third annual edition of A-Team Group’s highly sought-after RegTech Summit is nearly here! On October 3, 2019 industry leaders, regulators, practitioners and providers will converge on the etc.venues at St Paul’s London to discuss the most innovative and effective approaches for building a better regulatory environment. This year is our strongest line-up yet, with…
LIBOR Change Requirements Mean Major Data Challenges for Financial Firms – Are You Ready?
With the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) ceasing to exist at midnight January 1, 2022, financial services firms around the world are faced with an enormous data management challenge. LIBOR, and the interest rate curves built off of it, are used within a wide variety of financial instruments and products, including derivatives, loans, and bonds….
Recorded Webinar: FRTB: The time to get your data in order is now
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation requires firms within its scope to source significant amounts of data, some of which has not previously been required and is difficult to pin down. The data management challenges of the regulation’s Internal Model Approach (IMA) to market risk capital calculations include ongoing P&L attribution, back testing…
Sensiple Partners with TNS to Bring its MiFID II Compliance Solution to Frankfurt’s FR2
New Jersey-based banking technology specialist Sensiple Inc has partnered with communications giant Transaction Network Services (TNS) to bring its global analytical platform Setrega to the FR2 data centre in Frankfurt, further boosting the city’s reputation as a connectivity hub. Over the next five years Sensiple anticipates Europe to be one of its biggest growth areas…
Global RegTech Industry Tops $5bn, But More Collaboration is Needed
The global RegTech industry generated an estimated $5 billion in revenue last year, as regulatory changes and technological advancements drove a surge of new startups in the past five years – according to a new Global RegTech Industry Benchmarking Report released this week by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF). Sponsored by EY Japan…
AkinovA Deploys Trading Platform on OpenFin
AkinovA, an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risk, has selected OpenFin for the deployment of its trading platform. The integration with OpenFin allows users to access the AkinovA marketplace with an easy-to-use interface that looks and feels like a native app experience while enabling instant deployment and upgrades. AkinovA is the…
FRTB Impact a Triple Threat, Finds ISDA
Final market risk capital rules will lead to a higher increase in bank capital requirements than previous estimates given by international regulators earlier this year, an undisclosed industry study has found, as reported by Risk.net – leading to concerns that the capital hike could force firms to scale back trading activities to meet the new…