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Experts Share Insights and Tips on Meeting Fit and Proper Requirements

Fitness and proprietary requirements for employees of financial institutions are not an option, but a regulatory obligation that calls on firms to regularly assess employees’ honesty, integrity and reputation, competence and capability, and financial soundness. RegTech Insight publisher A-Team Group recently brought together a panel of compliance experts for a hosted webinar sponsored by MyComplianceOffice (MCO)...


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FSB Study Puts the Spotlight on NBFI Shadow Banking Risk

By Wenzhe Sheng, Senior Product Manager of Regulatory Tech at Clearwater Analytics. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the global sentinel of financial stability, recently released findings that have likely sent ripples of unease through insurers, pension funds and asset managers. According to the study, these firms now face the unsettling prospect of being labelled as...

QuantCube Tackles ESG with Macroeconomic Data

Macroeconomic research specialist QuantCube Technology is targeting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance with a new asset-mapping database aimed at helping financial institutions monitor the risk exposure of their physical assets. The tool focuses on the data gap faced by banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and corporates in assessing (ESG) risks at a granular level,...

A-Team Group Receives Strategic Investment to Expand its Services

In some very exciting news here at A-Team Group headquarters, publisher of this news service, we’re pleased to say that we have received strategic investment from Finelight Group, a well established media and marketing organisation. This investment will enable us to expand the range of events and content marketing services we offer to our clients...

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FEATURED WEBINAR

Upcoming Webinar: Addressing conduct risk: approaches to surveillance

Date: 3 December 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Conduct risk in financial services is a critical area that requires vigilant monitoring and robust surveillance mechanisms. Regulatory bodies, (FCA, FINRA and others) have tightened their scrutiny and financial institutions must adopt advanced approaches to effectively manage and mitigate…

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RegTech Summit London

Now in its 8th 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.

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Regulatory Data Handbook 2024 – Twelfth Edition

Welcome to the twelfth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and useful guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change and the data and data management requirements of compliance. The handbook covers regulation in Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This edition of the handbook includes a detailed review of acts, plans and…

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Getting Control of Access to Key Market Services

Use of single dealer portals that allow banks to trade assets on behalf of their clients is growing rapidly, particularly among firms in the fixed income and foreign exchange markets in particular. But while trading portals offer great benefits in terms of broader market reach and enhanced client functionality, they bring risks too. Firms are...

How to Build an Efficient Enterprise ESG Data Strategy in Banking with Cloud and Machine Learning

ESG investing is now integral to financial institutions’ activities, motivated by client demands for sustainable investment options, regulatory obligations and a growing cultural shift towards ensuring that capital is allocated in order to do better for the planet and the people on it. Data is the magic dust that is enabling the translation of that...

Best Practice Approaches to Cross-Product Market Surveillance

As perpetrators of financial crime become more sophisticated, regulators worldwide are focusing more of their efforts on cross-product and cross-market manipulation, as evidenced by a growing number of high-profile prosecutions. Led by the UK’s FSA and the EU’s ESMA, regulators in key global markets are targeting sophisticated operators, whose cross-product activities typically involve  are able...

Events and webinars

Recorded Webinar: Preparing For Primetime – How to Benefit from the Global LEI

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Much has been made of the initiative to create a global standard legal entity identifier (LEI). Its backers have taken great pains to explain how the new identifier will improve transparency and contribute to the ongoing regulatory war against systemic risk. After months of...

Recorded Webinar: Practical Applications of the Global LEI – Client On-Boarding and Beyond

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. With the March ‘launch’ of the global legal entity identifier (LEI), the marketplace now officially has a standard it can use for managing entity data. Post-Credit Crunch, the lack of such a standard has forced firms to embark on their own initiatives to create...

Recorded Webinar: FATCA – The time to act is now

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year, but with the exception of a few modifications the legislation...

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RegTech Insight Awards Europe

Introducing the winners in the RegTech Insight Awards – Europe 2024. These awards recognise both established solution providers and innovative newcomers, seeking to herald and highlight RegTech solutions that throughout the year have successfully improved firms’ ability to effectively respond to the evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements across the global financial services industry.

 

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  • Regulatory Data Handbook 2024 – Twelfth Edition

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  • Regulatory Data Handbook 2023 – Eleventh Edition

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