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As regulatory expectations grow more complex, ensuring your teams have the right knowledge and tools has never been more critical.
Our comprehensive training solutions are designed to keep your firm ahead of the curve, providing tailored programs that address global and regional compliance requirements, cybersecurity challenges, and industry best practices.
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MiFID II transaction reporting – Firms are still getting it wrong
Whilst the FCA’s priorities appear, for the time being, to be on understanding the nature and scale of reporting data errors and how they are addressed, failings under MiFID I moved it to take several high-profile enforcement actions. It is imperative that firms get to grips with their MiFID II transaction reporting processes and data quality checks as soon as possible.
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UK extending Senior Managers and Certification Regime: What is it and how does it affect US firms?
The Senior Managers and Certification Regime (“SM&CR”) is new set of requirements that will affect all firms regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. This includes US firms (and those based elsewhere) who have some presence in the UK. And because SM&CR touches on the way firms are governed, it has potential implications for senior managers and some other staff in such firms including, in some cases, those located in the US parent.
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2019 Investment Management Compliance Testing Survey Results
ACA Compliance Group and the Investment Adviser Association release the results from their 2019 Investment Management Compliance Testing Survey. For the sixth year in a row, cybersecurity remains the biggest compliance concern at registered investment adviser firms – with 83 percent of survey respondents identifying cybersecurity as the “hottest” compliance topic and 70 percent indicating that their firms increased compliance testing in this area over the past year.
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Investment Adviser Standard of Conduct and Form CRS - What You Need to Know (Part 1 of 2)
On June 5, 2019, the SEC released a final comprehensive interpretation of the standard of conduct for investment advisers, which will become immediately effective upon publication in the Federal Register (anticipated July 2019). Here's what you need to know.
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Market Abuse Regulation three years on: is this still a priority for the regulator?
This week marks three years since the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) overhauled the civil market abuse regime across Europe, repealing and replacing the Market Abuse Directive (MAD) and the UK’s own
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June 2019 Broker-Dealer Newsletter
ACA Broker-Dealer Services invites you to download the latest edition of our newsletter.
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ACA Group Acquires Global Trading Analytics to Offer Clients Leading Transaction Cost Analysis Capabilities
ACA Group Acquires Global Trading Analytics to Offer Clients Leading Transaction Cost Analysis Capabilities
Five ACA Group Leaders Recognized Among the 2&20 Top 100 Most Influential People in the Service Provision for Alternative Investment Firms
Five ACA Group Leaders Recognized Among the 2&20 Top 100 Most Influential People in the Service Provision for Alternative Investment Firms
ACA Group Recognized as RegTech100 Company for Fifth Consecutive Year
ACA Group Recognized as RegTech100 Company for Fifth Consecutive Year