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UK’s Financial Regulator Gives AML Application Guidance

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

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Reimagining AML – Taking a Signals-Based Approach

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

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Equities Trading Rule-Change Proposals: Implications for Data and Surveillance

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

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Eventus Introduces Validus AML (VAML), New End-To-End Anti-money Laundering Solution to Help Exchanges, Institutions Combat Financial Crime

Innovative offering combines signals-based approach, rules-based logic and advanced data analytics with customizable technology for targeted, efficient results NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2023 – Eventus, a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, today announced the broad introduction of Validus AML (VAML), a new end-to-end anti-money laundering (AML) platform aimed

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Leading Cryptocurrency Options Exchange Deribit Selects Eventus for Trade Surveillance Platform

LONDON / AMSTERDAM, January 24, 2023 – Eventus, a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced today that cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Deribit has selected the firm’s Validus platform to provide market abuse monitoring on the exchange. Headquartered in Panama City, Panama, Deribit is the world’s largest cryptocurrency options exchange

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Eventus Quick Cuts – Building in Crypto with Compliance First

  In this episode of Eventus Quick Cuts, our Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets Mike Castiglione sits down with Delphine Forma, Senior Compliance Manager at BitMEX. Delphine dives into how crypto companies or startups can involve compliance teams early in their product-building journey, how the Travel Rule will impact them and how they can

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FCA Asking Wholesale Brokers to Prepare for a Series of Risks

By Sofia Österberg, Director of Client Success, Eventus   In their latest “Dear CEO” letter, the FCA highlighted a series of risks that wholesale brokers must be focused on, with some brokers likely requiring immediate attention and improvement in a number of areas. Despite progress in governance and compliance controls at larger firms, the FCA

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Eventus Closes Out Record Year, With Significant Plans for Enhancing Validus Platform in 2023

NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2023 – As financial markets compliance professionals faced some of their toughest challenges to date, Eventus – a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions – today said that the firm continued its significant growth trajectory in 2022 with another record year. The company more than

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