The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has released a white paper today exploring the role of interconnectedness in the transmission of risk and offering practical guidelines for risk management professionals.

Earlier this year the ISSA (International Securities Services Association) Working Group was tasked with understanding the specific challenges in financial crime compliance, and reviewing the growing range of transparency regulations to provide a series of clear, actionable and measurable principles for the industry to follow.

 Wolters Kluwer Financial Services today released the results of its Regulatory & Risk Management Indicator for the U.S. insurance industry. The Indicator found insurers over the next 12 months will face competing priorities for resources and time, with cybersecurity preparedness challenging overall regulatory compliance readiness.

 Volante Technologies Inc., a global leader in the provision of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, today announced it has created an interface with Ripple, distributed financial technology for global real-time settlement.

The Asia Pacific treasury function continues to evolve according to the Global Transaction Services (GTS) business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA Merrill). Driven by the need for more sophisticated financial strategies, heightened regulatory requirements, changes in technology and a push to adopt more inclusive business cultures, treasuries are undergoing a transformation across the region. These themes and others are explored in detail in the newly published “Asia Pacific: Treasury in Transition” report by Treasury Management International magazine (TMI).

Rate-fixing scandals, rogue traders and regulatory breaches – these are all potentially devastating threats to the reputation and bottom line of a bank or trading institution.

Each on its own is a good enough reason for any organisation operating in the markets to ensure that risk management is as taut and well-tuned as possible. The alternative is to court disaster through exposure to massive losses, drawn-out investigations and crippling fines.

 National ITMX Co. Ltd (NITMX), Thailand’s main interbank payments provider and VocaLink, the UK-based international payment systems provider are delighted to announce their joint study into potential collaboration to develop mobile payments in Thailand.

 Accuity, the leading global provider of Payments, KYC, Risk and Compliance solutions has partnered with China Systems, the leading trade finance solutions vendor, integrating Accuity’s Compliance Link solution with China Systems’Eximbills Trade Processing Platform to create  a SWIFT certified Trade and Supply Chain Finance product providing seamless compliance checks for trade finance transactions.

Misys, the leading financial software company, is working with banks across Asia to meet increasing demand for its FusionBanking solutions – 24% growth in the past two years driven by core banking transformation projects, digitial banking demand, and pan-regional processing initiatives by banks in trade finance and lending.

As an early adopter of SWIFT’s MyStandards and Readiness Portal, Citi is helping its institutional clients go to market faster with streamlined testing that reduce implementation risk and costs.