Ernst & Young and JWG IT Group, the independent think tank, entered a new collaborative agreement enabling both organisations to work with clients to embed the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The financial services community faces a
Banque AGF France has selected NetEconomy's Compliance Manager anti money laundering (AML) application for the detection of suspicious activity, analysis and regulatory reporting. NetEconomy's Compliance Manager application will monitor and profile all of Banque AGF's customers and transactions to detect
Methodware has released Methodware Basel and MiFID compliance frameworks. The frameworks for the Basel Capital Accord and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) are incorporated into Methodware's Enterprise Risk Assessor software solution, and are pre populated with the full
Peach, a compliance, risk and change management company in the UK, have released a unique CMP (Compliance Mapping and Proof) certification scheme for financial institutions and software vendors, to help them with their FAS 157 compliance issues and challenges. The
A new report from Aite Group, LLC examines the existing exchange environment and its competitive landscape in the post MiFID European market. It also analyzes the potential adoption rate for alternative execution venues in their upcoming battle against the incumbent
For the second year running, SunGard was named top vendor in the annual RiskTech 100 Rankings. The rankings are compiled by Chartis Research, provider of research and analysis on global risk technology markets, and RiskTech, the specialist risk management consultancy,
Eight major European financial institutions went live simultaneously and successfully on 1 November with ULLINK's MiFID compliant Best Execution solution. UL SMART.ULLINK was selected as their Best Execution application provider by eight major financial institutions, including BANCO SANTANDER, CM CIC
As part of the development of its Risk and Asset Management Research Centre, EDHEC Business School is to launch its fourth research chair, on MiFID and Best Execution. A first steering committee meeting was organised in Paris on 18 September
The Collaborative Software Initiative released an XML Schema and Web Application to help banks reduce risk, protect their financial data and increase operational efficiency under the BITS Shared Assessments Program. BITS member banks include Bank of America, The Bank of
Avox has been chosen by three French clients Calyon, CM CIC Securities and Socit Gnral Corporate and Investment Banking for Avox's MiFID Classification Service. With Avox's MiFID service, all three clients have now finished their MiFID client classification process. All