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FCA Seeks Industry Input on How to Handle Regulatory Data
The UK’s financial watchdog has issued a call to regulated firms to provide feedback on how best to collect and process regulatory data, as part of its plan to replace Gabriel, its main regulatory data collection system. Collecting over 500,000 submissions annually across 120,000 users and 52,000 firms, Gabriel enables regulated market participants to submit...
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A Strategic Approach to FRTB Compliance and Broader Risk Data Management
Data management for compliance with Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation has been acknowledged as a significant challenge, but it is not without hope as banks within scope consider how much data they have in-house and what must be sourced externally, build data management platforms to meet FRTB requirements for data consistency across...
Research Unbundling for US Asset Managers: ‘One Size Fits Nobody’
RegTech Insight sits down with Joel Burnette, Solutions Consultant at Red Deer, to discuss the response to the research unbundling requirements of MiFID II… and explore how the US markets are handling the new normal. RTI: What has been the most interesting thing about the North American research market’s response to MiFID II? Joel: We...
AQMetrics Launches Self-Service MiFID II Reporting Solution
Dublin-based AQMetrics, a regulatory risk and compliance specialist, this week launched its first fully self-service Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for MiFID II transaction reporting. An extension of the firm’s Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) solution, the platform allows firms to sign-up online for transaction reporting, self-manage data from multiple sources, avail of smart-validations with real-time error handling,...
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Verint Systems Integrates with Microsoft for Compliance Recording
Verint Systems has engaged with Microsoft to support compliance recording for Microsoft Teams. The added layer of compliance recording will enable clients to capture Teams interactions properly across contact center, back-office, and trading floor operations. Verint has worked with Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) to provide compliance solutions for 10 years, and was one of the…
Privacy Firm OneTrust Now a Unicorn
California-based OneTrust Global Privacy, a privacy, security and third-party risk technology platform, in the second week of July completed a $200 million Series A investment led by Insight Partners. The enterprise software company, founded in 2016, is now valued $1.3 billion. OneTrust’s three primary offerings include OneTrust Privacy Management Software, OneTrust PreferenceChoice consent and preference…
KRM22 Adds SMCR Applications to Global Platform
Software investment firm KRM22 has added additional SMCR applications to its Global Risk Platform, including a partnership agreement with London-based ‘digital intelligence’ specialist Neotas to distribute and support its enhanced due diligence application. The partnership follows recent agreements to distribute Trailight’s Individual Accountability Regime application which addresses the governance requirements of SMCR, and Entrima’s SMCR…
FactSet Launches KYC Application for Customer Due Diligence
FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications, has announced the release of FactSet KYC, a cloud-based SaaS application that allows clients to streamline their KYC due diligence. The new RegTech app combines KYC robotic process automation with FactSet content and public registries, to improve the efficiency and consistency of the customer…
EBA Warns of £135bn Bank Shortfall for Basel IV
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that the EU’s biggest banks could face a funding gap of up to £135bn in order to comply with Basel IV, an updated set of post-crisis regulations expected to be phased in from 2022 and be in full force by 2027. The EBA estimates that banks could face…
Dion Global Releases Corporate Actions Solution
Dion Global Solutions has released a corporate actions solution. Already live with two pilot customers, the solution is designed to make corporate actions processing cost effective for the smallest industry participants and scalable for the largest. It aims to decrease manual processing by increasing automation, and reduce risk by ensuring no event is missed or…
ClauseMatch Parters with Singapore’s Ingenia
Following on from its recent expansion into Singapore, UK-based regtech firm ClauseMatch has announced its first partnership in the region, with independent consultancy Ingenia. The alliance aims to provide ‘Compliance-as-a-Service’ for small and medium-sized financial institutions in Singapore, based on Ingenia’s existing service of developing and maintaining compliance networks for financial institutions who outsource their…
Coinform to Investigate Ripple’s AML Compliance
US regtech start-up Coinfirm has signed an agreement with San Francisco-based Ripple, the company behind cryptocurrency XRP, to investigate the crypto’s compliance with AML regulations. The move comes in advance of a planned crackdown by US authorities on cryptocurrency exchanges, following an announcement by the Financial Action Task Force report in June of tighter regulation…
Datactics Secures £1.2m Seed Funding
Belfast software solutions provider Datactics has raised £1.2m from the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI) in its second round of funding, completing a package commenced in 2018. “Seldom does a day go by where the possibilities of machine learning aren’t being discussed, and everything we are hearing from industry agrees that any…
Comyno and REGIS-TR Join Forces
German tech consultancy Comyno has partnered with Luxembourg trade repository REGIS-TR to provide an integrated SFTR solution with straight-through processing for mutual clients. The alliance will connect Comyno’s C-ONE SFTR solution to REGIS-TR’s test environment, offering clients early validation and testing in advance of implementation.
Calypso Teams Up With IHS Markit on SFTR
San Francisco-based software application provider Calypso Technology has partnered with IHS Markit to offer seamless connectivity for SFTR reporting, from the booking of the trade through to the trade repository, providing a comprehensive end-to-end view of the reporting. Common clients will benefit from a single interface to the trade repositories of their choice, with data…
IHS Markit Partners With Cappitech
IHS Markit has partnered with regulatory reporting and intelligence solutions provider Cappitech to deliver its SFTR solution via Cappitech’s reporting platform Capptivate. The alliance aims to automate and streamline transaction reporting to trade repositories for all securities finance instruments. It will also support out-of-the-box MiFID II reporting for additional instruments that will be in scope…
ESMA to Hold Hearing on SFTR Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will hold an open hearing on its consultation paper published on May 27, 2019 on draft Guidelines for the reporting under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). The hearing will take place on July 15, 2019 at the ESMA headquarters in Paris.
SIX FinTech Ventures Takes Stake in PXL Vision
SIX FinTech Ventures has acquired a stake in PXL Vision, a Zurich-based start-up offering solutions for online user verification. The company’s Daego solution supports the automatic creation and administration of secure digital identities. It is designed to help companies avoid physical verification processes when onboarding customers, reduce costs and provide a positive experience. The company…
DTCC Sets SFTR Testing Date
DTCC is scheduled to launch its first phase of SFTR testing for third-party partners in August, ahead of the regulation’s go-live date of April 2020.
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NeoXam Hires New Data Expert
Buy-side software provider NeoXam has appointed Philipp Sfeir to head up its DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) business. Sfeir was most recently Head of Data Management at Zürcher Kantonalbank, one of the top four banks in Switzerland, and since 2016 has been President of the Swiss Information Providers User Group (SIPUG). Florent Fabre, COO of…
Fenergo Raises €66 Million
Irish regulatory compliance firm Fenergo has raised €66 million in investment, according to documents filed with the Companies and Registration Office. The firm is believed to have raised the financing by selling shares to CSC Computer Science Holdings, an affiliate of US-based DXC Technology. DXC General Manager Edward Ho has joined Fenergo as a Director,…
Claudia Rodriguez Joins Pega
Digital transformation specialist Pega Systems has appointed Claudia Rodriguez as inclusion and diversity (I&D) leader, based out of the company’s Cambridge, Mass. headquarters. Her role will focus on creating I&D talent management initiatives with a focus on talent attraction, development, engagement, and retention. She was most recently senior manager of inclusion and diversity in Accenture’s…
Financial Machineries Makes Three Strategic Appointments
Financial Machineries, a provider of data lineage, sourcing, digital rights management and commercialisation of contributed market data, has appointed Keiren Harris, Frank Verstraeten and Daniel Muri to its team. They bring industry experience, regional insight, and networks of professional contacts from across APAC and continental Europe to the company, which is accelerating its ambition to…
Refinitiv names William Leahey as Head of Regulatory Compliance for Wealth Management
Refinitiv has appointed William Leahey as head of regulatory compliance for wealth management. In this role, Leahey will lead all regulatory activities for the wealth management business, identifying key regulatory developments, risks and initiatives for customers. Before joining Refinitiv, Leahey was vice president and assistant general counsel of the operations and technology group at the…
Ascent RegTech Hires New CEO
Ascent RegTech on April 15 announced the hiring of Arbela Takhsh as Chief Operating Officer. Arbela has held various engineering and operational leadership roles at Motorola, Google, Comcast, and most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations Excellence, Quality, and Data Analytics & Business Intelligence at Gogo. The Ascent team has grown rapidly since the…
DTCC Adds Three New Members to Board of Directors
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a provider of post-trade infrastructure for the global financial services industry, on April 9, 2019 announced the election of three new members to DTCC’s Board of Directors during the firm’s Annual Shareholders Meeting. The new directors are Kieran Hanrahan from JP Morgan Chase’s Corporate and Investment Bank, Graeme…
Alex Ceponkus Joins Exiger
Global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance company Exiger has named Alex Ceponkus as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Software Engineering of Exiger Tech, based in Toronto. Ceponkus’ new role will be to drive innovation, scale and delivery of Exiger’s technology solutions and increase the reach of its product suite (including its…
SmartStream Technologies Forms New Team
Transaction Lifecycle Management solutions provider SmartStream this week announced a new strategic focus in line with the new FSA (now PRA) rules governing liquidity management for UK and foreign branches. In response to the new regulations, SmartStream has appointed Nadeem Shamim to lead cash and liquidity management solutions globally. Prior to SmartStream, Shamim was Managing…
RIMES Appoints Andrew Barnett as New Global Head of Product Strategy
RIMES Technologies, a provider of managed data and RegTech services for the financial sector, has appointed Andrew Barnett as its Global Head of Product Strategy. Barnett will bring to bear his extensive experience in both the end-user and vendor sides of the market to help RIMES continue its growth trajectory. Barnett has previously held a…
Dash Names Venu Palaparthi as Chief Compliance Officer
US-based Dash Financial Technologies, which provides multi-asset trading technology and execution services platforms, has appointed Venu Palaparthi as its new Chief Compliance officer. Palaparthi has held senior roles at several major firms including Tagomi, Virtu, Nasdaq and Instinet. He is the latest senior hire for Dash over the last 12 months, including last June’s hiring…
Fenergo Hires James Follette as Global Head of Commercial and Retail Banking
Following its recent expansion into the commercial and retail baning space, client lifecycle management solutions provider has appointed James Follette as its new Global Head of Commercial and Retail Banking. Follette was formerly responsible for client onboarding and know your customer (KYC) transformation at Citi.
Control Risks Makes Strategic Compliance Hire
Specialist risk consulting firm Control Risks has appointed John Lash as Principal in its Compliance, Forensics and Intelligence practice. Lash will be based in Washington DC and is an expert on cross-border M&A. His hire will assist Control Risks to manage global trade compliance capabilities at a time when its clients are facing evolving and…
BNP Paribas Seeks RegTech Lead
BNP Paribas is advertising for a RegTech consultant, based in Paris, to support its Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) division in all projects relating to the digital transformation of their activities, with a focus on the needs of the trading desks. The hire will join the CIB Consulting RegTech Team, which is developing to support…
NuBox Hires New CTO
Pablo Vittori has joined NuBox, the biggest provider of small business financial software-as-a-service (SaaS) in Latin America. Vittori will spearhead the firm’s next expansion phase, focusing on big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Before joining NUBOX, Pablo worked as a CTO On Demand, helping companies around Latin America reshape their digital teams, implement processes…
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RegTech Suppliers Guide 2019
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Trade Surveillance and Mobile Recording in the Era of Data Privacy
The EU’s MiFID II and other regulations globally have placed greater emphasis than ever on market surveillance, recording of trading communications and records-retention processes in an attempt to stamp out market abuse and boost investor confidence and protections. At the same time, the public’s attitude toward data privacy has hardened, most visibly through new regulations...
Solving the KYC & AML Challenge for Cryptocurrencies, Tokens & ICOs
The cryptocurrency market is at an inflection point. It has gained substantial momentum from early investors (private & retail), day traders and prop shops but it has so far failed to get substantive engagement from wider institutional players. The crypto marketplace today is a mix of exchange and OTC-traded activity with little of the market...
Getting eComms Surveillance Right
Demand for electronic communications (eComms) surveillance has risen in response to regulatory requirements and compliance needs to pinpoint problems such as market abuse without wasting time and resources reviewing false positives. Innovative technologies such as machine learning, natural language understanding (NLU) and other strands of artificial intelligence (AI) are improving financial services firms’ ability to...
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Breakfast Briefing: Meeting the Data Requirements of FRTB London
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) Breakfast Briefing, will examine how the capital markets industry is approaching FRTB data management and will look at the implications for the ways that firms source, manage and store data for FRTB compliance.
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MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) builds on the original MiFID of 2007 to improve the competitiveness of European markets by creating a single market for investment services and activities, and ensuring protection for investors in financial instruments. Read everything you need to know and get access to all related content.
Regulatory Reporting
Regulatory reporting comprises the submission of raw or formatted data as required by regulators to evaluate and track the financial and operational status of financial institutions and their compliance with required regulatory provisions. Find out all about it in our Knowledge Hub.
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR)
The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) provides an EU-wide regulatory framework on market abuse, including measures to enhance the attractiveness of securities markets for capital-raising through the prohibition of practices such as insider dealing, unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation. Find out more and access all our key resources here.
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