Compliance Program Development and Enhancement

Navigate the changing risk and compliance landscape

As new rules and regulations are adopted and the regulatory landscape evolves your compliance programme must keep pace or risk leaving your firm exposed.

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In additional to ongoing compliance manual maintenance support, our ACA compliance cycle management team can assist you with a range of topical compliance challenges, including:

AIFMD Consulting & Support

Drafting of your documentation, policies, procedures and controls for AIFMD impacted EEA-based investment managers of alternative investment funds, and also non-EEA advisers who wish to market such funds into the EEA.

Stay on top of financial crimes-related threats and regulatory concerns with AML consulting support. We can support with independent testing and risk management, as well as, development of AML, KYC/CDD, FCPA and anti-bribery, and cybersecurity policies and procedures.

Updating of policies, procedures and compliance manuals for firms with a UK-based presence, reflecting new rules and regulations following the exit of the UK from the European Union.

Policy and procedure development and program management including carbon footprinting, climate risk scenario analysis, net-zero management, DEI baselining and training, portfolio performance assessment, reporting (UN PRI, TCFD, SFDR), and marketing and disclosures reviews.

FCA Marketing Abuse Regulation (MAR) Solutions

Focused and cost-effective assessment of your firm’s policies, procedures, monitoring program, surveillance techniques, and controls environment. Our ACA compliance cycle management services can also provide a deep-dive review, benchmarking, and testing of your firm’s market abuse arrangements.

LIBOR

Assistance in devising your LIBOR transition plans, assessing and reviewing your firm’s reliance and usage of LIBOR, or performing a gap analysis review of your transition work to date.

Our investment company team will help you to navigate the SEC’s liquidity risk management program rule through educational resources and alerts, benchmarking insight, help with program management and development of policies and procedures, annual assessments.

MiFID II Consulting & Support

Our post-implementation review is designed to review, test and benchmark your MiFID II program to identify gaps and reduce your regulatory risk for compliance enhancement.

Our prudential team are on-hand to help provide regulatory oversight of your firm’s capital monitoring and forecasting, and regulatory reporting processes. This includes support with the upcoming Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR).

Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) and Form CRS

Our ACA compliance cycle management experts can help broker-dealers understand the compliance and operational issues presented by Reg BI as they relate to their retail business. Our consultants can assist in designing customized procedures that will detail the steps needed to address Reg BI’s requirements as they relate to your firm.

SM&CR Compliance Solutions

Post-implementation reviews of your documentation, framework and internal process, gap analysis, as well as senior manager and conduct rule training for compliance enhancement.

Policy and procedure development and thematic project support to help make sure your trade and transaction reporting is in line with MiFID/MIFIR and EMIR regulatory requirements.

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New prudential regime for Investment Firms: how are Exempt-CAD firms impacted?

Likely to come into force by the end of 2019, the prudential framework will hit some firms very hard, requiring them to maintain significantly greater levels of capital. We are running a series of articles assessing the material areas of change imposed by these new rules. In this first article, we examine the regime’s impact on the capital and liquidity requirements of Exempt-CAD firms.

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ACA Launches Services Dedicated to Advisers in the Digital Asset Space

Investors and regulators globally are actively reviewing and examining digital asset advisers’ investment practices.

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Digital Assets in the Regulatory Spotlight in Q1 2018

During the first quarter of 2018, U.S. regulatory agencies and a federal district court issued statements and took actions that are likely to significantly affect the U.S. regulatory landscape for digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, and digital asset trading platforms. This blog post is a summary of our article detailing the recent key regulatory developments that apply to organizations operating in the U.S. digital asset space.

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SFC Consultation on Fund Manager Code of Conduct (FMCC): 10 key points

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong published the conclusion to proposed changes in its Fund Manager Code of Conduct last November, helping to clarify a few remaining areas of contention following its original consultation paper. We have produced a quick summary of the ten key points you need to know from the consultation conclusions on Asset Management regulation.

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GDPR DDQ Now Available for Assessing Vendors' GDPR Compliance

ACA announces GDPR-specific due diligence questionnaire (DDQ) for vendors and third parties.

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So You Survived Year-End Compliance Testing — But are You Ready for What’s Next?

Compliance professionals have had a busy year so far, but the tasks and testing will continue to increase.

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Jody Kochansky Joins ACA to Lead Product and Engineering

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Acquisition strengthens ACA’s outsourced financial operations offering for broker-dealers.

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We are thrilled to announce that ACA Group has earned a spot on the prestigious 2024 ESGFinTech100 list, joining the ranks of the world's most innovative ESG technology providers.

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