Number Crunch

We’ve crunched the numbers: the average US-based clearing firm needs to comply with nearly 2,000 unique, affirmative, regulatory obligations.1 Trading derivatives outside of the US? You can effectively double that — and adding another clearinghouse with its own set of unique rules imposes a significant…

Regulatory Complexity: In Numbers

Statistics and pundits — those oft-maligned liars — share the same stories: we are more highly regulated than ever before. While the Federal Register has hovered around 80,000 pages per year, the Code of Federal Regulations has added nearly 45,000 pages since 2010…

An introduction to Intelligence-as-a-Service

Creating “Intelligence”

Ascent Technologies Releases MiFID II Compliance Channel

Solution provides firms with targeted regulatory processes compliant with MiFID II requirements

ING & CBA use Ascent technology in successful MiFID II regtech pilot

Project uses NLP and AI to save hundreds of hours of manual processing time

If You Have 10,000 Regulations . . .

“If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” — Winston Churchill

One thing is certain: The growth in the number of laws and regulations is staggering, and this growth — not only in depth of rules, but breadth of…

Ascent Technologies Expands Executive Team with CRO and VP of Product

Compliance 101

The word “compliance” used to elicit chuckles and groans from management as recently as the mid 2000s. The word itself, which originated in the 1640s, colloquially signaled a career arc with a negative trajectory and, for many, brought to mind professionals plying their trades in damp, dark corners of…