LaSalle Bank, a Midwest U.S. bank owned by ABN Amro, has expanded its license of XcitekSolutionsPlus (XSP) for end-to-end automation of corporate actions processing for another five years. The deal, originally signed in 1999, will now run through 2010. The extension includes the addition of an ISO messaging module as well as eTran for web-based notifications and response capture capabilities.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Executive Board Member, SIX. For as long as anyone in the industry can remember, sanctions in financial instruments representing holdings in sanctioned legal entities have been treated as a very specialist concern. They sat with compliance teams and were largely invisible to day-to-day market activity. The issue is...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
Welcome to the third edition of A-Team Group’s Trading Regulations Handbook, a publication designed to help you gain a full understanding of regulations that have an impact on your trading operations, data and technology. The handbook provides details of each regulation and its requirements, as well as ‘at-a-glance’ summaries, regulatory timelines and compliance deadlines, and...
