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Upcoming Webinar: Addressing conduct risk: approaches to surveillance
Date: 3 December 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Conduct risk in financial services is a critical area that requires vigilant monitoring and robust surveillance mechanisms. Regulatory bodies, (FCA, FINRA and others) have tightened their scrutiny and financial institutions must adopt advanced approaches to effectively manage and mitigate…
Upcoming Webinar: Effective due diligence, screening and monitoring to mitigate financial crime risk
Date: 24 September 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Managing financial crime risk requires a comprehensive approach to due diligence, screening, and continuous monitoring. Financial institutions face increasing regulatory scrutiny and staying compliant in today’s dynamic environment requires advanced technologies. Failure to comply is resulting in severe enforcement…
Upcoming Webinar: Practical considerations for regulatory change management
Date: 18 September 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Regulatory change management has become a norm across financial markets but a challenge for financial institutions that must monitor, manage and adapt to ensure compliance with both minor and major adjustments to obligations. This year is particularly troublesome, with…
Upcoming Webinar: How to ensure employees meet fit and proper requirements under global accountability regimes
Date: 17 September 2024 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Fitness and proprietary requirements for employees of financial institutions are not an option, but a regulatory obligation that calls on employers to regularly assess employees’ honesty, integrity and reputation, competence and capability, and financial soundness. In the UK, these…
SEC Charges 26 Financial Firms for Record-Keeping Failures, Resulting in $392.75 Million in Penalties
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken enforcement action against 26 broker-dealers, investment advisers, and dually-registered firms for widespread violations in maintaining and preserving electronic communications. The charges highlight longstanding failures by these firms to comply with federal record-keeping requirements. The implicated firms admitted to the facts outlined in the SEC orders, acknowledging…
Consumer Duty is Transforming Wealth Management but there is Still Work to be Done
By Suman Rao, UK Managing Director, Avaloq. A year on from the implementation of Consumer Duty, its impact on the UK wealth management industry has been undeniable, causing a positive cultural shift across the industry as firms modify their practices and behaviours to ensure they provide fair value for clients. Navigating the regulation’s requirements has…
Automation Key to Overcome Implicit Cost Conundrum as PRIIPs Predicament Looms
By Kifaya Belkaaloul, Head of Regulation, NeoXam. With just over 150 days until the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products regulation (PRIIPs) changes, the financial industry must confront a looming implicit costs conundrum – and fast. The update to the regulatory framework on January 1 seeks to ensure that asset servicers undertake a more detailed…
RegTech Insight Q&A: UPI Rollout for OTC Derivatives by DSB
It’s been a busy year at the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) with the successful rollout of the unique product identifier (UPI) for OTC derivatives. RegTech Insight (RTI) caught up with Emma Kalliomaki, Managing Director of DSB and the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), for a Q&A to better understand how supports industry-wide standards adoption…
Webinar Review: Harnessing the Wider Benefits of Data Identifiers
Almost three-quarters of capital markets participants are utilising data standards and identifiers beyond their immediate regulatory use cases, realising the huge benefits that ordered and consistent datasets can bring to an enterprise’s entire operations. The findings of an A-Team Group Data Management Insight poll showed that 40% of respondents said they are using the resources to a…
Jefferies Streamlines OTC Derivatives Clearing with AWS for T+1 and More
Investment Banking firm Jefferies has deployed AWS services to streamline OTC derivatives post-trade operations to meet the new T+1 settlement deadline. The implementation was presented as a case study at the recent AWS Summit in New York. The session was presented by Jefferies’ executives Sudhakar Paladugu, SVP Corporate Technology, and Manish Mohite, SVP Global Head…