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Originally published by Markets Media   Compliance in Focus is a content series on regulatory topics for financial markets and challenges compliance officers face in addressing surveillance and monitoring. Compliance in Focus is produced in collaboration with Eventus. As seen in 2022 and continuing this year, the pace of market change financial institutions must endure is increasing. New […]

By: Mike Castiglione, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets, Eventus   Only 15 percent of cryptoasset applicants have gained approval under the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) anti-money laundering (AML) and countering-terrorist finance regime, according to a recent FCA notice. To assist applicants, the FCA offers guidelines about what constitutes good and bad applications to

By: Christopher Waitz, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus   Last year, U.S. futures exchanges continued to pursue enforcement action, with fines up to $500,000, for each violation of exchange Operator ID rules. The Operator ID, commonly known as “Tag 50” due to the data field used by CME group exchanges, is used to uniquely identify

Anti-money laundering (AML) is a mature industry with many aspects and choices about how best to satisfy regulatory requirements– from pre-onboarding through effective monitoring to reporting and off-boarding in order to help financial institutions stop financial crime.  AML is fairly procedural with a high degree of information gathering, processing, and analysis. Too often, AML’s pain-points

Originally published by Markets Media Compliance in Focus is a content series on regulatory topics for financial markets and the challenges compliance officers face in addressing surveillance and monitoring. Compliance in Focus is produced in collaboration with Eventus.   Among the bevy of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory proposals issued in December 2022, some demand more prominence