(A cryptocurrency trading platform, Voyager Digital Ltd., recently announced that it is using anti-money laundering (AML) solutions from NICE Actimize. Voyager has signed onto the cloud-based AML Essentials offerings and will be using the Suspicious Activity Monitoring and Customer Due Diligence applications to monitor its operations. The news gave FTF News an opportunity to reach… Read More >>
CME Group Ends Most Open Outcry Trading
Eurodollar Options Pits to Stay Open Derivatives exchanges operator CME Group has announced that the physical trading pits shut down since March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic will remain permanently closed as global financial markets move toward a post-pandemic phase. Not all open outcry venues will close, though. “The Eurodollar options pit, which was… Read More >>
OCC Issues Guide for LIBOR Transition Assessment
Risk-Based Approach Urged for LIBOR Replacements As banks and other financial services organizations move away from the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued a bulletin that includes a self-assessment guide to help firms evaluate their preparedness for the end of LIBOR. In the “LIBOR Transition:… Read More >>
NICE Actimize Targets All Trading Floor Communication
Much of the communication happening in securities and commodities trading rooms has to be recorded for regulatory compliance purposes, and NICE Actimize has launched a solution that captures traditional, unified, and mobile channels via a single, cloud-based platform. The vendor says that the new NTR-X extends the capabilities of the NICE Trading Recording (NTR) compliance… Read More >>
Facial Recognition App Offered via NICE Actimize Marketplace
Facepoint Available via NICE Actimize’s Marketplace Hoboken, N.J.-based NICE Actimize, a NICE business, reports that Facepoint, which offers a biometric risk screening engine, has joined the X-Sight Marketplace NICE Actimize’s X-Sight Marketplace includes “more than 60 technology partners,” according to a statement, which calls the marketplace the “first financial crime and compliance ecosystem that connects… Read More >>
Trade Surveillance Platform Offers Self-Service Analytics
NICE Actimize, a financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions vendor, is enhancing a key trade surveillance solution with a self-service, analytics capability, intended to help financial services firms fill common surveillance gaps. Dubbed the SURVEIL-X Studio, the new component of the SURVEIL-X Holistic Trade Surveillance solution adds coverage that is not part of the out-of-the-box… Read More >>
DBS Hiring to Fill 2,000 Posts in Singapore
DBS Also Confirms No-Layoffs Policy The DBS banking group in Asia has just announced that it will be hiring more than 2,000 people in Singapore in 2020, a commitment “to creating and protecting jobs amid pandemic,” officials say. “The announcement follows an earlier pledge by the bank that it will protect the livelihoods of its… Read More >>
NICE Actimize Embraces Disruptive IT to Fight Crime
(Editor’s note: The Best Financial Crime Prevention Technology honor from the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards for 2019 went to NICE Actimize and its portfolio of financial crime solutions. Voters singled out the company for the five major financial crime solutions that it launched in 2018 with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) central… Read More >>
AxiomSL Hires CFO from Charles River Development
David Weber to Serve as CFO &COO for AxiomSL AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory-reporting, risk and data-management services, reports the appointment of David Weber as chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO). Weber is a financial services industry veteran, with more than 30 years of financial management and operations experience, AxiomSL says…. Read More >>
NICE Actimize Debuts ‘X-Sight’ for Financial Crime Detection
NICE Actimize, a financial crime management vendor, has launched X-Sight, a machine-learning, cloud-based “platform-as-a-service” that is intended to help Ops teams run better quality investigations of suspicious activity, officials say. X-Sight uses artificial intelligence capabilities for detection, decision-making and investigations management, vendor officials say. “NICE Actimize’s X-Sight opens doors that traditionally were more challenging due… Read More >>
