Tag: Compliance

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is a fundamental piece of US legislation which introduces enhanced financial disclosure for publicly traded companies. It imposes standards for financial reporting to protect investors from false or misleading representation of companies’ ...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) regulates more than 50 thousand financial institutions (brokers, investment banks, custodians) which hold or control client money and custody assets or are involved in debt management. Each of them must make sure to comply with the FCA Client Asset ...

GDPR: What is it all about? The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) officially comes into effect on May 25, 2018. The compliance deadline which was a long time coming is now only 1 short week away, and even in the final days, the affected portion of the business world has been buzzing with activities ...

As designers of a world-class enterprise system, ReconArt has always had significant focus on application security. We have purposefully integrated enterprise security best practices in the application to keep access and data secured, while simultaneously keeping ...

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulation PS14/9 related to custody assets and client money has a backstop for implementation of 1 June 2015. Compliance with the rules in the client assets sourcebook (CASS) has never been more important. There is now considerable ‘noise’ from the FCA given the ...

When you hear those letters, SEC, what comes to mind? To some it's the call sign of a superhero tasked with protecting the American people from fraud and keeping Wall Street accountable. To others it's a dreaded governmental bureaucracy creating endless paperwork and headaches. So although many of us are familiar with the SEC from news headlines, not ...

Far reaching new rules introduced by the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) with respect to customers’ monies and assets have been encompassed under policy statement 14/9 ( ...

Risk Mitigation Techniques such as Portfolio Reconciliation for uncleared trades must be applied by firms as described in article 13 of the EMIR regulation. Depending your exact business this can be an easy exercise or a real burden. When you are a non-financial counterparty with 100 or less contracts you have to perform the portfolio reconciliation ...