EY and Apiax join forces to transform the way the financial industry handles regulatory compliance. Through their cooperation, the two companies offer financial institutions efficient ways to stay compliant with complex financial regulations digitally.

Thomson Reuters has launched SECPlus Advanced with features to improve the workflow of financial reporting professionals. Built on the strength of its SECPlus SEC Filings research solution, SECPlus Advanced offers more precise search options, new filtering capabilities, faster results navigation, instant access to related documents, and a new filings comparison feature.

Banking cooperative Swift has unveiled a number of initiatives designed to address the compliance challenges facing banks and corporates. The unveiling came at a Swift Business Forum in Zurich where Swift executives, corporate treasurers and bankers addressed member banks on a range of topics, from financial crime compliance to Switzerland’s fintech scene.

The International Compliance Association is pleased to announce the launch of a brand new qualification in its specialist certificate series: the ICA Certificate in Financial Crime Risk in Global Banking and Markets. The Certificate, which is awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester, is designed for those who want to explore the financial crime risks inherent in financial markets.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business is this year’s winner of Corporate Vision magazine’s “Most Innovative Integrated Regulatory Compliance & Reporting Platform” award. The publication has awarded the firm’s OneSumX suite the global accolade for 2017 as part of its annual Technology Innovator Awards – the second year running that Wolters Kluwer has triumphed in the award series.

Over the years, the field of compliance has evolved to meet increasingly rigorous, complex and substantial demands from regulators. The ever-increasing reach of regulation has strengthened and consolidated the position of compliance practitioners as professionals and the International Compliance Association (ICA) has supported individuals’ aim to become professional agents of change within their industries. Now ICA is pleased to be able to support firms in their efforts to optimise the benefits of compliance; so that they may become first-class, effective organisations, leading progress to a sustainable global marketplace.

Chartis Research has named Wolters Kluwer a Category Leader in its 2017 RiskTech Quadrant® for Enterprise GRC Solutions, marking the fourth consecutive time it has earned this distinction. Wolters Kluwer advanced to a top five position among vendors participating based on its governance, risk and compliance capabilities, moving up another notch since the last time Chartis conducted its Enterprise GRC Solutions market update.

At the 8th Annual Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Summit at RSA in San Francisco today, Skyhigh Networks, the world’s leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), unveiled a new survey, “Custom Applications and IaaS Report 2017.” Conducted in partnership with the CSA, the report provides striking details around widespread migration of custom or internally developed applications from corporate datacenters to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms such as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

The ICA Advanced Certificate in Business Compliance is being offered for the first time in Slovenia from February 2018, in partnership with the European Institute of Compliance and Ethics (EICE). The course has been designed to meet the growing demand for highly skilled and qualified compliance professionals working in financial services and other regulated sectors.

Chartis Research has named Wolters Kluwer a Category Leader in its 2017 RiskTech Quadrant® for Enterprise GRC Solutions, marking the fourth consecutive time it has earned this distinction. Wolters Kluwer advanced to a top five position among vendors participating based on its governance, risk and compliance capabilities, moving up another notch since the last time Chartis conducted its Enterprise GRC Solutions market update.

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) today announced agreements with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that resolve previously disclosed investigations focused primarily on the Company’s oversight of certain agents and whether its anti-fraud program, as well as its anti-money laundering controls, adequately prevented misconduct by those agents and third parties. The conduct at issue mainly occurred from 2004 to 2012.