Regtech & Legaltech

March 9, 2021 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Juni, a digital banking startup based in Sweden, has enlisted TruNarrative’s Regtech services to onboard customers in a compliant manner. Juni is in pre-launch mode having raised about €2.18 million in seed funding. Created last year, Juni was founded by Samir El-Sabini and Andres Orsedal…. Read More

March 2, 2021 @ 11:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK Finance has published a proposal for a “new service company” that will support the UK’s open banking infrastructure, according to a public statement. UK Finance is described as the collective voice for the banking and finance industry representing over 250 firms in the UK…. Read More

February 24, 2021 @ 8:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based DBS Bank Ltd (SGX:D05), a multinational banking and financial services corporation with over $330 billion in assets, is reportedly using facial biometrics for handling online corporate account opening processes for small businesses. This should help the bank with speeding up information authentication and verification…. Read More

February 23, 2021 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platform Ontology (ONT) and Binance, the leading digital currency exchange, have a long and established history of cooperation and partnership which has led to many benefits for both sides, “none possibly more important the integration of Ontology’s Decentralized Identity Solution into the Binance Smart… Read More

February 19, 2021 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accuity and LexisNexis Risk Solutions have confirmed that they’re planning to merge their business operations. Accuity will reportedly become a part of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group which currently operates in over 100 different countries. Both companies are a part of RELX, a multinational provider… Read More

February 18, 2021 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platforms Qtum and Blockpass have teamed up in order to deliver on-chain (or blockchain-based) Know-Your-Customer (KYC) services. As part of the agreement, Qtum will be providing subsidies to “specific” members looking to achieve regulatory compliance through Blockpass’s On-chain KYC solutions. Adam Vaziri, CEO at… Read More

February 10, 2021 @ 9:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Department of Treasury hosted the U.S. Financial Sector Innovation Policy Roundtable the past two days. Policymakers and regulators, as well as members of the private sector, participated in the meeting to discuss policy issues surrounding Fintech and innovation “fostering economic recovery, competitiveness, and financial… Read More

February 10, 2021 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

MayStreet, a financial data infrastructure provider, has hired Manish Kimmel as Chief Policy Officer. She joins MayStreet from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where she previously served as Senior Policy Advisor, Regulatory Reporting in the Office of the Chairman. Over the course of her tenure… Read More

February 3, 2021 @ 3:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  kompany, an Austria-based regtech, announced on Tuesday it has launched its newest anti-money laundering compliance solution that is designed to ease ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) discovery for regulated entities across the world. According to kompany, UBO Discovery applies artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze unstructured shareholder… Read More

January 28, 2021 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Regtech Working Group, formed by the Steering Committee of Australia’s National Blockchain Roadmap, is currently undertaking a consultation in order to gain a better understanding of the wide-ranging views and perspectives regarding the use and adoption of distributed ledger technologies (DLT). The consultation is… Read More

January 28, 2021 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Approximately half or 50% of companies that have previously submitted their regulatory reporting on the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Gabriel systems are now using RegData, the regulator recently confirmed. According to the FCA, RegData is central or key to their overall data strategy which… Read More

January 25, 2021 @ 1:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The [William M. (Mac) Thornberry] National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (HR 6395) was signed into law at the beginning of this month. While the title of the law is pretty accurate as the bulk of the legislation addresses defense issues, buried within… Read More

January 22, 2021 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent report released by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has outlined various case studies and insights from banking institutions that have implemented different technologies to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of their AML/CFT requirements. The HKMA’s report identifies key opportunities that regulatory technology… Read More

January 19, 2021 @ 12:16 pm By Steven Knipfelberg  |  

  While recent headlines may be focused on the meteoric rise of Bitcoin, another disruptive technology derived from the famed cryptocurrency may have even more profound implications for the future: blockchain-based “smart contracts.” A wide variety of companies are already experimenting with the ability of… Read More

January 14, 2021 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s Carne Group, the provider of regulatory reporting and compliance tools to the asset management sector, has acquired a €100 million equity investment from Vitruvian Partners. Established in 2004, Carne has 350 professionals on its payroll who are based in 8 different locations across the… Read More

January 8, 2021 @ 10:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  B.Fine, a Belgium-based regtech service provider, recently announced it secured €1 million through its first investment round, which was led by Pamica NV. Founded in 2017, B.Fine states that banks rely on its platform to transform their time-consuming reporting processes into an effective reporting… Read More

January 6, 2021 @ 9:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Silent Eight, a Regtech firm that leverages AI to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing activities, has revealed that it has agreed to a multi-year partnership with HSBC which aims to assist the bank with improving its compliance measures and related operations. HSBC chose… Read More

December 29, 2020 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced the launch of iAM Smart (internet Access by Mobile in a Smart way), a digital identity service that enables users to leverage the biometrics in their smartphone to act as proof of identity for all types of… Read More

December 16, 2020 @ 4:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Canadian regtech company iComply Investor Services announced on Wednesday it is launching an updated version of its iComplyKYC platform for digital compliance administration. According to iComply, the platform now supports the onboarding and authentication of legal entities and natural persons as a part of its… Read More

December 15, 2020 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nice Actimize, a NICE company (Nasdaq: NICE) business offering autonomous financial crime management solutions, has revealed that FACEPOINT, which introduced a biometric risk screening engine, has now joined the X-Sight Marketplace, bringing its facial recognition tech for Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and watch list risk screening to… Read More