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Six Ways to Stay Ahead of Financial Regulators with RegTech
By Burt Esrig, Managing Director and Michael Lehman, Partner, ACA Compliance The RegTech industry has exploded, with over 250 RegTech businesses worldwide and $1bn invested last year, as firms look to beat the regulators and the competition. But firms still aren’t doing enough. There have been $26 billion in fines for non-compliance with AML, KYC and sanctions regulations over the past decade….
Nasdaq Sells GRC Platform to SAI Global
Integrated risk management software provider SAI Global has confirmed plans to acquire BWise, an enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software platform established in 1994 and acquired by Nasdaq in 2012. The transaction, subject to regulatory approvals, works council and other representative body consultations and notifications in various applicable jurisdictions, is expected to complete in…
Brussels Issues Draft Guidelines for AI Regulation
In December 2018 the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) released its ‘Draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI’, a working document for stakeholder engagement that cites AI as “one of the most transformative forces of our time.” The guidelines emphasise that “an ethical approach to AI is key to enable…
Alpha FMC and Kaizen Partner on Transaction Reporting Compliance
Specialist regulatory reporting solutions provider Kaizen has teamed up with wealth management consultancy Alpha FMC to offer a new transaction reporting compliance assurance service. The collaboration will comprise a “health check” for specialist wealth managers and smaller asset managers including an assessment of current governance and control frameworks, a check on the accuracy of reported…
RegTech Insight – Keeping Your Finger on the Regulatory Pulse
Welcome to Regtech Insight (RTI), a brand-new platform from A-Team Group bringing you the very latest in news, insights and exclusive analysis from the complex and fast-changing world of regulatory technology. Forming the third pillar of our comprehensive information service, RTI stands alongside Data Management Insight (DMI) and Trading Technology Insight (TTI) to offer a…
FRTB Poses Potential Threat to Smaller Regional Banks
In January the Basel Committee released final revisions to the upcoming Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), including a number of modifications to make the regulation more palatable to industry players and a confirmed deadline of January 2022 for initial implementation. Despite its modest revisions, the transformative framework will enforce one of the biggest…
FRTB Special Report
FRTB is one of the most sweeping and transformative pieces of regulation to hit the financial markets in the last two decades. With the deadline confirmed as January 2022, this Special Report provides a detailed insight into exactly what the data requirements are for FRTB in its latest (and final) incarnation, and explores what needs to be done in order to meet these needs on a cost-effective and company-wide basis.
CubeLogic Adds CubeWatch Sentiment Analysis
CubeLogic has added CubeWatch sentiment analysis to its portfolio of business intelligence driven risk management, workflow and reporting solutions. CubeWatch monitors social media and other data sources, and automatically organises, filters, translates, scores and weights data collected to provide risk management practitioners with insight into market, geographical and climate related events in real time. The…
NICE Actimize Extends Financial Crime Capability
NICE Actimize has established a financial crime consulting and advisory practice and introduced a target operating model designed to pinpoint client objectives, create a technology roadmap and establish an enterprise operational plan. The consulting practice is working with clients to evaluate the people, process and technology aspects of financial crime programmes, identify inefficiencies and provide…
BIG Offers Blockchain Course for Crypto Investigations
BIG Blockchain Intelligence Group (BIG), a Vancouver-based developer and provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency search, risk-scoring and data analytics tools and investigation services, claims to have launched the “world’s first” investigator-developed, eight-hour online certification course for cryptocurrency investigations. Originally created for US law enforcement officials, the course has been adapted for use by finance and…