Fenergo has launched a trader request platform for the energy and commodities sector that combines artificial intelligence (A.I.), know your customer (KYC), and onboarding features in an effort to streamline compliance and onboarding processes, officials say. The Trader Request Portal “was purpose-built to address one of the industry’s most persistent challenges of improving collaboration and… Read More >>
Meet Your PMCR Chairperson: Ambika D’Souza
(Ambika D’Souza, CIPM, CSPO, is serving as the chairperson for Financial Technology Forum’s Performance Measurement & Client Reporting conference and is an advisory board member for the FTF event on Feb. 29. D’Souza agreed to do a Q&A about her more than 25 years of performance and analytics experience. She was formerly a vice president… Read More >>
Hearsay Updates System as SEC Readies New Rules
Financial services firms have about six weeks to comply with a new SEC rule that regards testimonials as advertisements, and many perceive the changes they will need to make as daunting. Hearsay Systems, a social media compliance, and digital client engagement provider, reports that it has updated its compliance capabilities to help firms come up… Read More >>
LME to Automate Client Onboarding
LME to Use Itiviti’s FIX-based Offerings London Metal Exchange (LME) will be automating its client onboarding process with the help of FIX protocol-based offerings from technology and service provider Itiviti, officials say. The exchange will use Itiviti’s FIX Conductor and VeriFIX Enterprise solutions for onboarding as part of the LME’s effort “to refresh its overall… Read More >>
Mizuho Americas Revamps Client Onboarding: Case Study
Mizuho Americas, an investment and corporate bank that is part of Tokyo-based Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., has gone live with client onboarding software solutions from vendor Fenergo in an effort to have know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulatory processes that can scale along with the firm’s rapid growth. Mizuho Americas officials “examined… Read More >>
Fenergo Links to Refinitiv’s World-Check One
Fenergo, a client management systems vendor, is offering a new level of integration with a financial crime-fighting offering of market data and risk management provider Refinitiv that is intended to streamline know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance. Fenergo is launching an application programming interface (API) link from its client lifecycle management (CLM)… Read More >>
Ops Needs Hub to ‘Take Out Operational Risk and Cost’ of KYC
(Editor’s note: Designed for simplifying client data gathering and document management, the Clarient Entity Hub utility service of Clarient Global went live in the spring with the support of Barclays, BNY Mellon, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and State Street. The hub targets the client onboarding and client lifecycle operations such as know your… Read More >>
Alacra Adds GIIN Support to AAF+
Client onboarding, reference data and business research vendor Alacra has added global intermediary identifier numbers (GIINs) to the Alacra Authority File Plus (AAF+), officials say. There are approximately 140,000 institutions with GIINs, which are issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to foreign financial institutions (FFI) as part of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act… Read More >>
Alacra Adds Three to Management
Alacra, a specialist vendor in client onboarding, reference data and business research solutions, reports the addition of three new members to its management, with the appointments of Alan Samuels (pictured to the left), Kelvin Dickenson and Kevin Kollar. “Each brings valuable skills and experience and the appointments are a significant step in the company’s continued… Read More >>
