4373 Results from /regulation
Retired Member
As is so often the case with some of the lengthy documents that make up the Shakespearean drama that is the MiFID II implementation, the devil is in the detail. The technical standards on position limits for commodity derivatives are a good example. Right at the very end, just before President Juncker's imprimatur, is a little tidbit suggesting th...
09 December 2016 /regulation
After a hectic 2016, chief risk officers will be hoping for a quiet wind-down to the year and a high-performing, risk-managed 2017. But what do they need this Christmas in order to have a successful 2017? Top of each CRO’s wish list is speed. Companies need to accelerate customer onboarding and are continuously striving to improve the customer expe...
Cyberattacks and breaches have grown in frequency, and losses are on the rise. In 2015 the number of U.S. data breaches continued to break records with 781 reported where the number of records exposed was about 169 million records, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. For a more global view, as of the first half of 2016 there were 97...
08 December 2016 /security /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
This was originally posted November 21, 2016 in the TradeTalk blog on TT's web site. Share Here we are again. Just when we all thought we had it figured out, the election whizzed on the electric fence. Now it is time for the long awaited December FOMC meeting. I’ve written before about positive expected value and a process focused trading discipli...
08 December 2016 /regulation
We need to accelerate TMS roadmaps and increase the agility of the big investments we’ve made in these systems As the backbone of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) deployments for more than 15 years now, Transaction Monitoring Systems (TMS) are heavily relied upon throughout the enterprise. The standard method of detecting illicit activity is by runnin...
06 December 2016 /regulation
Additional stringent know your customer (KYC) regulation comes into effect in the US in spring 2018. The new rules concern ‘beneficial ownership’ – institutions will have to discover ‘ownership’ – defined as direct or indirect ownership of 25 per cent or more – of the customer ‘entity’ (such as a company) and who is in ‘control’ of the funds. The i...
06 December 2016 /security /regulation
By Laura Glynn, Global Manager of Regulatory Affairs, Fenergo It has been ten years since FATF published its last Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) of the United States. On December 1st, 2016, as many of us turned our attention to the final month of what has been quite an eventful regulatory year (think Panama and Bahamas Leaks, FinCEN Final Rule, M...
05 December 2016 /regulation
Chris Day Partner at Perdl
The only way to ensure that aggregate information in which to make critical decisions upon is accurate and precise is through semantic quality. The silos of data quality metrics across individual systems and their applications present a usable, if not blinkered view but an omission or misstatement may be considered material. Whilst approximations a...
Henry Hilska Managing Principal at Convexity Solutions
Data Privacy regulations increase challenges for bank KYC and AML programs Financial services organizations are under increasing pressure from regulators to focus on KYC and client due diligence. This pressure is exhibited in the form of fines and penalties that have been levied upon numerous banks and other organizations for lax procedures. Due...
02 December 2016 /regulation /retail Financial Services Regulation
One solution to protecting financial data is simply to treat all data as sensitive. This would avoid the complicated work of developing and implementing complex data aggregation tools and procedures. However, this all-or-nothing approach would lead to unnecessarily large data storage requirements, especially in large firms. If a firm has global lo...
01 December 2016 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
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