03/15/2017
UK Financial Institutions are Unprepared for MiFID II Legislation and Unaware of Extent of Penalties
17 per cent of Risk & Compliance managers are unaware a company could receive a cease and desist order for non-compliance
Legal,Regulation,Tax & Compliance
03/15/2017
Mourant Ozannes advises on proposed merger of OneWeb and Intelsat and connected $1.7 billion capital injection by Softbank
Within our corporate team, we have both the breath and depth of expertise to provide all clients involved with the best possible service in these circumstances.
03/15/2017
Collas Crill Advises on Sale of Award Winning Payment Processing Company
The Collas Crill team comprised of senior associate Tristan Ozanne from the firm's commercial department and group partner Michael Morris from the UK property team.
03/14/2017
Lloyds in £1.3bn tech outsourcing deal with IBM
LTU claims less than 200 of the staff would continue working on the Lloyds contract after four years
03/14/2017
SIX Securities Services receives approval to launch its Trade Repository for Switzerland
The SIX Trade Repository has been in testing since January 2016 with over 50 major financial institutions, hedge fund managers and traditional fund managers.
03/14/2017
Japan's SBI, others invest 26.3 mln euros in Germany's solarisBank
SBI and Arvato will help the company expand into Asia and Europe respectively, the company said.
03/14/2017
Miura launches its MiFID II Regulatory Portal
The key regulation is contained in approximately 500 articles on thousands of pages of text, with numerous supporting documents released by ESMA on an ongoing basis.
03/13/2017
Insurtech Fight For Asia?
The ever increasing margin pressures means insurance companies need to join and utilise the insurtech innovations to stay a relevant player in the game.
03/10/2017
BBVA Chooses Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Liquidity Risk and Regulatory Reporting
“As a leading global bank BBVA needed a comprehensive solution to ensure its U.K. regulatory obligations and liquidity risk are managed optimally – Wolters Kluwer provides this,” says Marta Garcia, Head of Production Management at BBVA i
03/10/2017
Monetary Authority of Singapore Works to Boost Blockchain Utilization: Looks to Central Bank Digital Currency
MAS said the project has achieved the objectives of producing a digital representation of the Singapore
03/10/2017
Innovation and the fintech frontier
Fintech began as back-end technology supporting an established industry.
03/09/2017
Abu Dhabi finance regulator pens fintech agreement with Singapore central bank
Regulators could now run joint innovation projects on the use of certain technologies in the finance sector
03/09/2017
European Commission speech on FinTech
The main changes and challenges relating to innovation and Fintech for the financial services industry;
03/09/2017
Law Firms Woo London’s Fintech Scene
Regtech outfit Enforced
03/09/2017
Dubai Regulator Signs FinTech Pact with Singapore’s Central Bank
Dubai looks to make a FinTech splash with Singaporean partnership.
03/08/2017
BearingPoint wins Best Regulatory Reporting Solution
The awards were then officially granted at the recent awards ceremony in London.
03/08/2017
Onfido launches Regtech Principles for Innovation
With the ability to convert complex regulation into simple code and provide a trusted digital identity for online users
03/07/2017
Carlyle to sell ITRS to TA Associates
TA Associates has agreed to acquire ITRS, a software vendor for the financial services industry. The seller is The Carlyle Group. No financial terms were disclosed. William Blair is serving as financial adviser to ITRS on the transaction. The deal is expe
03/07/2017
Law firms cosy up to UK fintech community
Over 25 firms applied, seeking £30,000 of value add services such as legal advice and guidance from experts at the firm
03/06/2017
Payments: looking down the regulatory pipeline
Throw into the mix the implications of the UK’s exit from the European Union and that amounts to a whole heap of trouble.