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Recorded Webinar: Adverse media screening – how to cut exposure to criminal activity, from money laundering to human trafficking

Screening for adverse media coverage of counterparties presents an incredible opportunity for financial institutions to limit risk exposures and identify bad actors early. It is required by regulations such as the EU’s sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AML 6), and is one of the most effective ways to steer clear of potential connections with sanctioned activity...

Recorded Webinar: Sanctions – The new pre-trade challenge for the buy-side

Sanctions screening at the security level is a relatively recent requirement for the buy-side. It dives deeper than traditional KYC and AML screening and is immensely challenging as firms must monitor frequently changing sanctions lists, source up-to-date sanctions data and beneficial ownership data, and integrate these to screen growing lists of potentially sanctioned securities. As...

Recorded Webinar: The evolution of market surveillance across sell-side and buy-side firms

Market surveillance is crucial, and in many cases a regulatory requirement, to ensuring orderly securities markets and sustaining confidence in trading. It can be breached and has become increasingly complex in the wake of the Covid pandemic, Brexit, and the emergence of new asset classes. This webinar will review the extent of market abuse in...

Recorded Webinar: Managing culture and conduct: Is your organisation compliant with the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR)?

The FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) came into play in the UK banking sector in early 2016, with the aim of reducing harm to consumers and strengthening market integrity by creating a system that enables firms and regulators to hold individuals to account – and it is not going away with the FCA...

Recorded Webinar: Strategies, technologies and services for successful corporate actions automation

Rising volumes and increasing complexity of corporate actions are challenging market participants’ efforts to reconcile data, automate corporate actions processing, and contain costs. The culprits causing these challenges include legacy systems, missing skills, manual processes, data quality issues, and a lack of standardisation. Added to these is the increasing complexity of corporate actions such as...

Recorded Webinar: Unifying client data to accelerate insights and deliver better experiences

Data insight is critical to all aspects of the buy-side investment process from portfolio decisions that drive core revenue and incremental revenue opportunities, to delivering unique and timely investment research, and rapidly innovating and offering new products to clients. While this is a key goal for asset managers, built on the ability to understand and...

Recorded Webinar: Fighting fraud and financial crime with RegTech

Financial fraud and crime continue to escalate causing significant damage to companies, countries and the global economy despite enormous efforts by firms and organisations in the financial services sector to identify and expel bad actors. As these bad actors use increasingly sophisticated techniques to break into financial institutions and extract both money and data, so...

Recorded Webinar: Best practice for Regulatory Change in 2021 and beyond

How to get regulatory change management right and avoid the risks of getting it wrong The burden of regulatory change on financial firms has never been greater, leaving compliance teams under increasing pressure to ensure that changes are reviewed and acted upon in a timely manner. Technology enhancements in this space can help, allowing firms...

Recorded Webinar: Getting ready for Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and ESG – what action should asset managers be taking now?

Interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investment has exploded in recent years, bringing with it regulation and a requirement for buy-side firms to develop ESG strategies and meet disclosure obligations. The sell-side can help here by integrating ESG data with traditional financial information, although the compliance burden remains with asset managers. The EU Sustainable...

Recorded Webinar: Evolution of data management for the buy-side 2021

The buy-side faced a barrage of regulation in 2020 and is now under pressure to make post-Brexit adjustments and complete LIBOR transition by the end of 2021. To ensure compliance and ease the burden of in-house data management, many firms turned to outsourcing and managed services. But there is more to come, as buy-side firms...