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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…
Asian Development Bank Launches AML Scorecard
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a new scorecard designed to enhance regulatory efficacy to boost access to trade financing while enhancing efforts to combat financial crimes. The ADB Scorecard is informed by and complements the work of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB). It is comprised of…
Fintrail Solutions Launches Financial Crime Forum
US-based financial crime consultancy Fintrail Solutions has launched the US chapter of the FinTech FinCrime Exchange (FFE), a free members forum already operating in Europe which brings together a network of fintech firms to collaborate on the best practices in financial crime risk management and create a globally connected community in the fight against financial…
Dash Financial Technologies Acquires eRoom Securities
Capital markets technology and execution provider Dash Financial Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Chicago-based eRoom Securities. The eRoom platform, which provides multi-asset trading technology, agency execution, risk management, reporting and clearing services to professional traders, institutions and hedge funds, will be rebranded as Dash Prime. As the Dash Prime project gets underway, eRoom…
Alex Pavel Joins IHS Markit
Alex Pavel has joined IHS Markit as Sales Director. Based in London, Pavel has responsibility for growing the company’s risk and regulatory compliance business across Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), the Middle East and Africa. Pavel was formerly with Thomson Reuters in Dubai, where he spent four years in enterprise sales. He holds an…
Recorded Webinar: Balancing compliance and value in data management initiatives
Over the past few years, about 90% of data management has been dedicated to the operational requirements of data governance and regulatory compliance, but this is changing rapidly as financial institutions look to exploit and drive business value from data. At a growing number of institutions, close to 70% of data management resource is focused…
Calastone Shifts to Blockchain
London-based fintech firm Calastone, which provides back and middle-office services to over 1,700 clients including JP Morgan Asset Management and Schroders, has shifted its entire trading system to blockchain – including more than 9 million monthly e-communications. “The more you can automate, the more you de-risk, you more you streamline, the more you speed up,”…
Recorded Webinar: Managing data for the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)
The January 1, 2022 compliance deadline for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation may be three years out, but if your organisation is within scope of the rules, the time to address their data management challenges is now. Will your organisation be able to source the necessary data for non-modellable risk factors (NMRFs)…
German RegTech Start-up Alyne Raises €3 million in Seed Funding
Munich-based regtech start-up Alyne has raised €3 million in Series A financing in a round led by Alstin Capital and Hannover Digital Investments. The investment brings Alyne’s total funding to €4.2 million since launching its next generation regtech solution in early 2016. Alyne’s software-as-a-service product, the Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) platform, provides a curated and…