New York, NY – October 15th, 2015 – Alacra, Inc., an Opus Global Company, and leading provider of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Reference Data and other information solutions for regulatory compliance today announced completion of its acquisition by Opus Global, a leading provider of SaaS-based compliance solutions. The transaction was first […]
Early this year I posted 10 Forecasts for 2013 M&A Activity. Here are just a few of the more bullish quotes from the prognosticators:
“The fundamentals for sustained M&A activity on 2013 are solid…”
“…these numbers (2012) should rebound behind the strength of strategic buyers, the emerging markets, and the energy sector.”
“…a unique set of […]
As Bitcoin gains recognition as a legitimate currency in the world of digital transactions, FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) has issued guidance on the regulations that apply to administrators and exchangers of virtual currencies that will test AML and KYC programs.
Swings in the market value of Bitcoins – tied to limited circulation […]
Today we updated the Periodic Table of Entity and Security Identifiers to help our friends in compliance and in the reference data worlds keep track of the many identifiers around the world. It’s been an entire year since our first pass at organizing this detail, so there are several changes. With the advent of […]
Increasingly, Alacra Compliance Enterprise customers and prospects are asking us to facilitate the inclusion of FATCA client classification information in their onboarding […]
DealMeme is a new, free service from Alacra to help you monitor merger and acquisitions around the world.
DealMeme uses the AlacraPulse Curation Engine, which sifts through 3,000 respected traditional media and influential blog sources, which are continuously vetted to maintain top standards. […]
We responded to a number of calls following our post last week highlighting the challenges faced by the CICI Utility with regard to self-registration. One call came from a senior executive of the DTCC, who carefully explained that many of the data issues we highlighted were the result of business rules being applied to […]
Last week we fielded several phone calls from clients asking about what other challenges the CICI Utility might be facing in addition to the duplicates and empty fields that were described in a recent article from Waters Technology: Data Validator Criticizes DTCC’s Identifier Database. We’re major supporters of the Legal Entity Identifier […]
All the financial institutions we’ve worked with have deployed a transaction monitoring system that alerts the bank to suspicious activity. Sophisticated financial institutions have entities exhibiting unusual activity automatically sent to the due diligence team for review. This review results in the KYC information for that entity being updated.
Firms also monitor or refresh their customer […]
Again, communication is critical. Those firms that utilized electronic communication from the relationship manager to the onboarding team had better processes overall. In some cases searches of various databases (sanctions lists, PEPs, adverse news) were run automatically on the verified customer name from the relationship management system. This eliminated re-keying of data, which is a […]
