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Compliance.ai Launches New Product
RegTech specialist Compliance.ai has launched a new Workflow Automation solution as part of its financial regulatory change management platform. The software-as-a-service platform is designed to clients to cost-effectively manage the growing volume and velocity of regulatory changes in near real-time without increasing headcount. “Chief Compliance Officers are tasked with managing a massive increase in the…
Podcast: Creating a Regulatory Change Management Framework
Join us for another in-depth A-Team Group Podcast, as we explore the best ways to create a robust regulatory change management framework to manage risk and navigate change. The Podcast explores how firms are developing capabilities to help anticipate risk, track and analyse regulatory updates. It reviews progress towards standards-based semantic technologies and machine-readable texts…
Alex Pavel Joins IHS Markit
Alex Pavel has joined IHS Markit as Sales Director. Based in London, Pavel has responsibility for growing the company’s risk and regulatory compliance business across Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), the Middle East and Africa. Pavel was formerly with Thomson Reuters in Dubai, where he spent four years in enterprise sales. He holds an…
Ascent Works with FCA to Simplify Regulatory Handbook
US-based RegTech provider Ascent has formalized its collaboration with the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to break down the agency’s regulatory handbook into smaller and more digestible pieces for ease of consumption. The partnership is designed to make it easier for financial institutions to understand and apply the FCA guidelines to their operations. Ascent will…
US Regulators Urge Innovation to Combat Financial Crime
A group of US regulators have banded together to support the use of technology and innovation by financial institutions to meet their Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance obligations, effectively fighting financial crime and strengthening the financial system against illicit activity. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal…
DLT to Help Regulators
Applications such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) can help to effectively regulate the derivatives markets, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo. He noted that DLT could be used to automate certain regulatory processes, which he described as “quantitative regulation.” “We can… envision the day where rulebooks are digitized, compliance is…
Recorded Webinar: Balancing compliance and value in data management initiatives
Over the past few years, about 90% of data management has been dedicated to the operational requirements of data governance and regulatory compliance, but this is changing rapidly as financial institutions look to exploit and drive business value from data. At a growing number of institutions, close to 70% of data management resource is focused…
Positive Progress, Says Powell
Progress has been made around the world on financial regulation, according to US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. In a recent speech he noted that regulation has become stricter and more transparent, but warned that further adjustments could be on the horizon. “In the financial stability realm, the case for enhanced transparency is not just…
Main Capital Buys Stake in German RegTech Start-up cleversoft
Main Capital Partners, an investment manager focused solely on the software industry in Benelux, Germany and Scandinavia, has acquired a stake in Munich-based regtech software-as-a-service specialist cleversoft for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2004, cleversoft provides cloud-based regulatory reporting services for regulatory regimes including PRIIPs, MiFID II, PIB, FIDLEG and AML, underpinned by lifecycle management…
German RegTech Start-up Alyne Raises €3 million in Seed Funding
Munich-based regtech start-up Alyne has raised €3 million in Series A financing in a round led by Alstin Capital and Hannover Digital Investments. The investment brings Alyne’s total funding to €4.2 million since launching its next generation regtech solution in early 2016. Alyne’s software-as-a-service product, the Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) platform, provides a curated and…