A new consultancy, 7 Centre, has been launched, dedicated to advising corporate and financial clients on ESG engagement and offering guidance on sustainability strategies and incorporation of ESG factors into decision-making processes. The company was founded by ESG thought leader Tanya Seajay, who created alternative data firm Orenda.
Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are imperative to regulatory compliance and building competitive advantage, but how much progress is the industry making in transitioning onboarding from a disjointed process run across many functions to an holistic operation spanning the enterprise? New approaches and technologies are available, so how best can you implement...
Sustainability data and RegTech provider Diginex’s recent acquisition of The Remedy Project labour and human rights advisory illustrates how ESG is transforming from an investment strategy to a risk mitigation objective among financial companies. The London-based company, which last year purchased sustainability data and analytics provider Matter DK, anticipates that the The Remedy Project’s expertise...
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.
The industry breathed a sigh of relief when the deadline for reporting under the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) was pushed back to July 1, 2014. But what’s starting to look like perhaps the most significant regulation of the next 12 months may start to impact our marketplace sooner than we think, especially...