Fenergo achieved “unicorn status,” says Marc Murphy, president and CEO of the KYC and client management software solutions vendor, because it’s been acquired by private equity firms Astorg and Bridgepoint via a definitive agreement they signed with venture capitalist firm Insight Partners, which owned the Dublin-based provider. Several media outlets have reported a wide range… Read More >>
AML, KYC Fines Hit $5.6B as of mid-2020
Penalties assessed against financial institutions for non-compliance with anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), and sanctions regulations totaled $5.6 billion by the end of July 2020, according to a mid-year report from a well-known fintech provider. That provider, Fenergo, founded in 2008, characterizes itself as a “digital enabler of client and regulatory technology for… Read More >>
StatPro Buys ESG Unit for $3.27 Million
ECPI Unit to Become Part of StatPro StatPro Group, a cloud-based portfolio analysis and asset pricing services vendor, will be enhancing its benchmark offerings for environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings and indices via the acquisition of the ESG research and index business unit (ECPI) from ECPI Group, officials say. The acquisition for a total… Read More >>
Fenergo Links to Refinitiv’s World-Check One
Fenergo, a client management systems vendor, is offering a new level of integration with a financial crime-fighting offering of market data and risk management provider Refinitiv that is intended to streamline know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance. Fenergo is launching an application programming interface (API) link from its client lifecycle management (CLM)… Read More >>
Fenergo Tool Shows Structure of Money-Laundering Schemes
Fenergo, a client lifecycle management (CLM) vendor, has launched an ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) and counterparty hierarchy modeling and visualization tool, the Fenergo Hierarchy Manager (FHM), intended to streamline anti-money laundering (AML) screenings, and to help financial services firms better mitigate the risks of financial crime. The new FHM offers financial institutions “a single aggregated… Read More >>
BNPP AM Debuts Emerging Markets Equity Mutual Fund
BNP Paribas Asset Management Adds to Mutual Fund Suite BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has launched an Emerging Markets Equity mutual fund that is described as actively managed and “features competitive initial net expense ratios of 0.75 percent for institutional shares; 0.90 percent for investor shares; and 1.15 percent for retail shares,” officials say…. Read More >>
Firms Fined $26B Over the Past Decade: Fenergo
Have you ever wondered how much financial services firms have paid over the past decade in fines when they have been in violation of anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC) and sanctions regulations? Fenergo, mostly known for its client management solutions, decided to find answers to that question using “various sources, including regulatory and… Read More >>
Fenergo to Target the Buy-Side Market
Fenergo, which established itself as a provider of client management solutions for sell-side firms, reports that it is branching out to offer buy-side clients onboarding and regulatory compliance services and has made a major hire to oversee a new buy-side division. Based in Dublin, Ireland, the vendor has hired Kevin O’Neill to be its new… Read More >>
Clayton & Giancarlo Issue Joint Crypto Currency Warning
Regulators See Upside to Blockchain/DLT Bitcoin and the other so-called distributed-ledger cryptocurrencies have had a rollercoaster valuations ride so far this year, which may not be surprising to anyone who can identify Mt. Gox or knows that Tether, pitched to investors as the “more stable” cryptocurrency, lost nearly $31 million in tokens near the end… Read More >>
Bloomberg Becomes an Official LEI Distributor
LOU Accreditation Comes in Time for MiFID II Bloomberg, which made its fortune in market data, trading systems and news, is stepping into the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) realm as an accredited Local Operating Unit (LOU) of the Global LEI System (GLEIS), officials say. The company has received “approval to issue and maintain” LEIs, and… Read More >>
