McDonnell Investment Management is now live with Eagle Investment Systems’ Star investment accounting system, following a four-month roll-out. McDonnell implemented the system with the aim of instituting an efficient straight-through-processing regimen. The web-based system was selected because of its ability to handle a high volume of transactions and to provide McDonnell with Schedule D statutory reporting on behalf of insurance clients.
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...
The criticality of sanctions to the armoury of international relations has been amplified over the past decade as geopolitical and trade tensions have intensified. Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its attempted full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, governments around the world have increased sanctions on nations and entities by 700%, according to...
Now in its 9th year, the RegTech Summit in London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...