Archax, the FCA regulated digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London, has appointed Malcolm Ford to lead its institutional sales activities in the run up to launch. Ford has over 20 years of experience in the institutional capital markets space, having worked for CMC Markets, Instinet, KCG, Morgan Stanley and Credit Agricole Cheuvreux. He has also worked for leading boutique firms including Assure Hedge, Linear Investments and Monsas.
Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are becoming more complex as regulation drives towards the inclusion of beneficial ownership data and requires financial institutions to improve customer due diligence still further. The webinar will discuss the need for beneficial ownership data, how it can be sourced and how it can be efficiently and...
Getting customer data right has been a problem for financial institutions for many years, but it is beginning to ease as regulation drives data aggregation underpinned by data governance, data standards emerge, and technologies replace manual processes. Getting management buy-in to improve customer data has also moved on and become more persuasive as conversations about...
Now in its 10th year, RegTech Summit London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to innovate the compliance function and response.
After what looked like a slow start to the summer, the initiative to establish a global standard for legal entity identifiers (LEIs) took a series of significant leaps forward during August, that appears to have put the project firmly back on track. If the marketplace felt a little reticent in June and July, it could...