International Contribution to Cyber Security Winner Announced in First National Cyber Awards
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Security, Data Protection, Fraud Detection, Compliance, Authentication Technology
The inaugural Scottish Cyber Awards have taken place and the successful ceremony has seen an Edinburgh firm land the award for International Contribution to Cyber Security. Edinburgh-headquartered ZoneFox were announced as the winners in the category after also scooping the Champion of Champions award. Speaking at the ceremony, James Graves, Chief Executive of ZoneFox, believes it is an honour to have received such prestigious new awards.
EBA Launches Second Impact Assessment Of IFRS 9 On EU Banks
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Compliance
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a second impact assessment of IFRS 9, which builds on the results of its first exercise published on 10 November 2016. The EBA expects that institutions will be able to provide more detailed and accurate insights into their implementation of IFRS 9 as the information provided by the respondents in the first exercise reflected the early stage of implementation.
Payment Institute CM Payments Licenced by De Nederlandsche Bank
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Payments, Compliance
Payment Institute CM Payments has been licenced by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) for the execution of payment services. As a result, CM Payments is now an official Payment Institution operating under the supervision of DNB and the first mobile-focussed Payments Institute with a DNB license.
Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited Opts for Ancoa Surveillance to Meet MAR
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Compliance
Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy & sell-side firms, today announced that Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited has deployed Ancoa’s surveillance platform to monitor their equity trading activity for instances of market abuse and to meet their obligations under MAR (Market Abuse Regulation). Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited combines global investment banking and advisory services, a... more
IPC Boosts Financial Markets Network Including Connexus Platform in Russia
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Compliance, Infrastructure
IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced that it has enhanced its network capabilities in Russia. IPC's points-of-presence (PoPs) in Moscow have been enhanced to support all of IPC's channel solutions including the firm's flagship extranet service, latency sensitive managed Ethernet service and MPLS corporate WAN solution.
EastNets and Dow Jones to Hold Joint Events in London and New York
- 9 years 11 months ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards
In November 2016, financial compliance, payment and cloud solutions provider EastNets will be organizing two important international events. The two events will address the evolving rules, regulations and technology affecting compliance in the financial industry. The first is scheduled at London’s Devonshire Terrace, on the 17th of November, and the second will follow on November 22nd at the Byblos restaurant in New York City.
Mizuho Bank Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Risk and Regulatory Reporting
- 9 years 12 months ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards, Audit and Reporting
Mizuho Bank’s Netherlands-based subsidiary has successfully implemented Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumXto provide a solution for risk calculations and multi country regulatory reporting. The leading Japanese bank is already an existing Wolters Kluwer customer across a number of European countries.
Wolters Kluwer to Act as FCA TechSprint Regulatory Reporting Subject Matter Expert
- 9 years 12 months ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards, Audit and Reporting
Wolters Kluwer is this week taking part in a TechSprint (sometimes referred to as a “hackathon”) organized by the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The event, “Unlocking Regulatory Reporting,” is designed to improve the interface between the regulator and regulated firms, allowing participating firms to discuss the practical uses of RegTech. Notably, the finance, risk and reporting technology vendor will act as the Regulatory Reporting ... more
Fidessa's Sentinel Distinguished as Best Buy-side Compliance Product
- 9 years 12 months ago
- Compliance
Fidessa announced that Sentinel has been voted best buy-side compliance product at the 2016 Buy-side Technology Awards. This is the seventh win for Sentinel at these awards and the third major accolade for Fidessa's buy-side compliance solution in the past twelve months. Designed to recognise the leading technologies and vendors in their area of expertise the Buy-side Technology Awards are underpinned by a robust selection process including the... more
Fidelity Survey Reveals Regulatory and Political Developments Remain Top Concerns
- 10 years 3 days ago
- Compliance
Financial advisors were most concerned about regulatory and political developments in Q3 2016, according to the latest Fidelity® Advisor Investment Pulse study. More than 28 percent of the advisors surveyed said topics such as the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule on investment advice and the upcoming general election were top-of-mind, a steady increase from nearly 21 percent in Q2 and 16 percent in Q1.
Strategic Investment Group Switches to Vermilion for Client Reporting
- 10 years 1 week ago
- Compliance, Audit and Reporting
Vermilion Software (‘Vermilion’), the leading global supplier of client reporting and communications software, announces that it has gone live with leading institutional investment outsourcer Strategic Investment Group (‘Strategic’).
Neurensic Reveals New SCORE Surveillance Platform
- 10 years 2 weeks ago
- Cloud, Compliance
Neurensic, a regtech artificial intelligence (AI) startup headquartered in Chicago, today announced the release of its new SCORE surveillance platform. SCORE is the trading industry’s first compliance solution powered by a cloud-based machine learning architecture that is capable of identifying complex patterns of trading behavior at a vast scale, across multiple markets in near real time.
Join 10th Annual Internal Audit & Governance, Risk and Compliance Forum
- 10 years 2 weeks ago
- Compliance, Risk Management
The current environment for financial businesses is turbulent, with changing regulations and business models leading to new increased risks. This puts more pressure on compliance, risk management and especially internal audit as a tool to maintain operational quality.
Thomson Reuters Finds 88 Percent of Financial Institutions Work Strategically Across Regulatory Agencies
- 10 years 2 weeks ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards
A Thomson Reuters report reveals that 88 percent of financial institutions will work strategically across regulatory agencies over the next two years. Financial institutions are recognizing the benefits of harmonized approaches to data management, enabling them to leverage data commonalities that exist across multiple global regulations. The major benefit identified by 79 percent of respondents was consistency of data across the business,... more
MiFID II Forcing Buyside Firms to Work Harder to Protect their End-investors
- 10 years 3 weeks ago
- Trading Systems, Compliance
A new report from GreySpark Partners, a leading global capital markets consulting firm, emphasises the importance of investment firms making changes to comply with MiFID II as soon as possible.
