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Addressing Financial Crime and AML with RegTech: Insights from the RegTech Summit 2024
Since the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) was enacted 54 years ago to prevent and detect money laundering and terrorist financing, the compliance obligation has evolved from a basic reporting requirement into a highly complex and continually evolving anti-money laundering (AML) regime. An expert panel at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit (NYC) in November convened to evaluate…
Nine Reasons Advisors & Wealth Managers should Download this Essential AI Compliance Report
In today’s complex and evolving compliance landscape, advisory and wealth management firms are navigating a critical crossroads. The rapid emergence of AI technologies, particularly generative AI (GenAI) offers both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges, reshaping how compliance teams operate. The Saifr commissioned survey and report, “From Caution to Action: How Advisors are Integrating AI in…
Predictions for 2025: Regulatory Climate to Impact Data Management as KYC Initiatives Evolve
By Cenk Ipeker, General Manager, Product Management, Cloud, NICE Actimize. As we enter 2025, financial institutions are likely to witness a shift toward more efficient, customer-friendly, and compliant Know Your Customer (KYC) practices. These changes will occur as institutions navigate an evolving regulatory landscape and technological advancements, with data management becoming a key focus area…
Why is Comms Surveillance Still a Problem? Key Insights from RegTech Summit 2024
More than $3 billion in fines and even higher legal costs have underscored the persistent challenges firms face in e-communications surveillance. Despite abundant evidence of the regulatory, financial, and reputational risks at stake, this problem continues to vex compliance teams worldwide. This provided the context for a group of senior practitioners and RegTech experts convened…
A Holistic Approach to Regulatory Change Management: Insights from RegTech Summit 2024
In November, the RegTech community gathered for A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit in New York City, now in its eighth year. 2024 also saw a record number of national elections including the United States, the UK and six other G20 countries. The details of any changes in regulatory policy and any impact on Governance Risk and…
From Panic to Progress: Tackling the Trade Surveillance Data Challenge
Travis Schwab, CEO, Eventus. Over the past year, global regulators have hit firms with massive fines for lapses in data governance. This has triggered a state of near-panic across trade surveillance teams as they scramble to avoid a similar fate. In fact, there has been little time for much else. As one head of surveillance…
Transforming Compliance: Key Takeaways from the RegTech Summit Panel on GenAI and LLMs
A deep dive on Generative AI (GenAI) in compliance was the focus of the first panel session at the recent A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York. The panel comprised Erin Preston, Chief Compliance Officer, Wedbush Securities; Harsh Pandya, Vice President, Product Management, Saifr; Brandon Carl, EVP, Product Strategy, Smarsh; and Rachna Srivastava, Head of…
From Fragmented to Unified: KOR Streamlines SEC and CFTC Derivatives Reporting
In August, KOR received its license from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a Securities Based Swap Data Repository (SBSDR) and Securities Information Processor (SIP)—a milestone that positions it squarely within a particularly exclusive segment of the U.S. derivatives reporting environment. This achievement makes KOR only the second SBSDR in the country…
KYC 2.0: Elevating Customer Due Diligence Practices
By Steve Marshall, Director, Advisory Services, FinScan, an Innovative Systems solution. Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements for anti-money laundering (AML) programmes are entering a new era. Evolving regulations, industry best practices, and ongoing scrutiny of compliance programmes are pushing organisations subject to KYC regulations to reevaluate their approach to customer due diligence (CDD), the process…
How RegTech has Shaped Compliance in a Year of Global Regulatory Changes
2024 has been a transformative year for the regulatory landscape marked by major updates to trade reporting rules across the globe. Leo Labeis, CEO of REGnosys, reflects on the year and discusses how firms can harness RegTech solutions to stay prepared for ongoing regulatory evolution. While some will remember 2024 as “the year the world…