enepath and Insightful Technology Team Up to Provide Revolutionary New Solution for Trade Reconstruction and Global Compliance
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Trading Systems, Compliance
enepath, the voice trading and communications specialist, and Insightful Technology (Insightful), compliance solutions specialists, have partnered to provide a seamless means of integrating voice trading with all other trading data. The collaborative solution combines Insightful’s Soteria™, the leading multimedia capture, analytics, proactive monitoring, and case reconstruction platform, with enepath’s Eclipse™ trader voice product suite.
Sapient Global Markets Enhances CMRS Regulatory Reporting Platform for Bank of Israel Requirements
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards, Audit and Reporting
Sapient Global Markets, a leading global provider of business technology and consulting services for the financial and commodity markets, today announced the latest development to its award-winning CMRS platform that will enable firms to comply with Bank of Israel reporting requirements.
Sopra Steria Achieves AWS Financial Services Competency Status
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Compliance
Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency status. This designation recognises Sopra Steria for delivery of effective solutions and providing deep expertise to help organisations manage critical issues pertaining to the industry, such as digital transformation, core systems implementation, migration, data management, navigating compliance... more
FICO Achieves AWS Financial Services Competency Status
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Compliance
Silicon Valley analytics software firm FICO announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency status. This designation recognises FICO for delivery of effective solutions to help organisations manage critical issues pertaining to the industry, such as risk management, data management, navigating compliance requirements and establishing governance models.
Accuity Survey Reveals Law Firms Still Facing Significant AML Challenges
- 7 years 4 months ago
- Security, AML and KYC
Accuity, the leading global provider of risk and compliance solutions, has today published the first survey of its kind exploring the legal profession’s understanding and use of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance controls to help meet new regulation. The results reveal that some of the main challenges include: identifying Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO), establishing clients’ source of wealth and asking fee... more
International Contribution to Cyber Security Winner Announced in First National Cyber Awards
- 7 years 5 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
- 7 years 5 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
- 7 years 5 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.
Wolters Kluwer Notifies Banks to Prepare Systems for Plethora of New Global Accounting and Regulatory Frameworks
- 7 years 5 months ago
- Regulatory Standards, Accounting
As deadlines loom for a plethora of new accounting and regulatory frameworks, firms across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas must ensure they have the right finance, risk and regulatory reporting management structures and systems in place to meet the challenges ahead.
Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited Opts for Ancoa Surveillance to Meet MAR
- 7 years 5 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
SWIFT’s KYC Registry Crosses 3,000-Member Milestone
- 7 years 5 months ago
- AML and KYC
More than 3,000 financial institutions have signed up to use The Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry, SWIFT’s centralised repository that maintains a standardised set of information about financial institutions required for KYC compliance. Launched in December 2014, The Registry provides a secure, cost-effective KYC solution that enables banks, fund distributors and custodians to maintain and grow their correspondent network. As an industry... more
IPC Boosts Financial Markets Network Including Connexus Platform in Russia
- 7 years 5 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
- 7 years 5 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.
IBM Blockchain Helps FinTechs and Banks Address KYC Challenge
- 7 years 5 months ago
- Blockchain, AML and KYC
Requirements that banks and financial institutions comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements is a global challenge. Blockchain holds potential to help address this need to prove the identity of a person or organization, source of funds, business interests, history and also monitor for changes. During the Singapore FinTech Festival, IBM announced a blockchain project with Singapore fintech startup KYCK! to help enable financial services... more
Mizuho Bank Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Risk and Regulatory Reporting
- 7 years 5 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.
