Insights
ACA Aponix® Launches New Cybersecurity Offering, Aponix Protect™
New cybersecurity program offering provides firms with a risk management framework to boost cyber and operational resilience.
- ACA News
Demand for Risk and Compliance Outsourcing Jumps Over 25% in the Age of COVID-19
Risk and compliance teams in financial services turn to trusted third parties amid business disruption and RiskMutation™
- ACA News
Introducing the Aponix Protect Cybersecurity Program
We’re excited to announce our new complete cybersecurity program, Aponix Protect, a comprehensive cybersecurity and technology solution offering provides firms with a risk management framework to boost cyber and operational resilience.
- Cybersecurity
RiskMutation™ Drives Firms to Seek Enhanced Solutions for Managing Rapidly Evolving Risk and Compliance Challenges
RiskMutation is accelerating the need for financial services firms to modernize and rethink their risk and compliance operating models through the adoption of enhanced solutions and trusted third parties.
- Compliance
- RiskMutation
SEC Registration Freeze Has Been Lifted For UK-Based Firms
Indications are that the SEC has begun to approve pending registrations of UK-based advisers wishing to do business in the U.S or to attract U.S. investors. We outline what this means for firms.
- Compliance
Treasury Department Issues Advisories Related to Ransomware
On October 1, the U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN and OFAC issued advisories warning of the growing threat of ransomware to U.S. business and individuals, describing recent trends in that area of digital crime, and pointing to the needs for proper safeguards and reporting, especially in light of potential violations of sanctions rulings.
- Cybersecurity
AML in the News Results in Plans for Modernizing AML Regulations
Recent news articles revealed the leak of 2,100 suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by financial institutions that described multiple instances of investment fraud and money laundering in the U.S., Europe, and across the world.
- AML and Financial Crime
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
Kick off Cybersecurity Awareness month by joining us for two days dedicated to the cybersecurity challenges and issues faced by financial services firms. ACA's first-ever Cyber Week on October 6-7 is free to attend.
- Cybersecurity
UPDATE: FCA Announces Last-Minute Extension of MiFID 10% Depreciation Reporting in the UK
The FCA have issued a last-minute statement declaring a further six-month extension and subsequent amendments to the Covid-19 measure brought into effect in March 2020. As a result, the MiFID 10% Depreciation Regime has now been extended to 30 March 2021.
- Compliance
- FCA
MiFID 10% Depreciation Rule: The End of the FCA’s Flexible Approach is Nigh
The FCA has announced a last-minute extension of MiFID 10% Depreciation Reporting in the UK. The Covid-19 measure is now in force until 30 March 2020.
- Compliance