Risk and compliance teams have a language problem. They’ve become accustomed to regulatory providers defining “obligations” as long, text-filled documents, or worse, PDFs that link out to other...
Ascent is excited to start off the new year recognized as one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work and Best Small Companies to Work For, for the third year in a row by Built In! Built In...
To effectively manage your regulatory risk, you must first understand what is required of your firm. At Ascent, we believe that how your firm identifies its regulatory requirements (also known as...
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Updated September 2021: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the information on this page may change as organizations adapt their in-person plans for safety reasons. We will continue to update this...
As digital services proliferate, we’re entering a new age of commercial opportunity: one where the digital world increasingly reflects changes similar to the physical world of the past 100 years....
At Ascent, we believe that focus and context are key to building a clear view of regulatory risk. This blog explains how financial services firms can use Ascent to maintain regulatory compliance and...
[Feat. Tom Loverro, General Partner, IVP] — If you watch CNBC, then you might recognize our next guest, Tom Loverro. Tom has helped some of the …
[Feat. Sian Lewin, Co-Founder and Head of Client Delivery and Research, RegTech Associates] — There’s a reason why Sian Lewin is known as the “The Reg Doctor” …
In Part 1 (DiFi or Die Trying: A Quick and Dirty Overview of Digital Finance), we discussed the digital financial ecosystem that grew from the ashes of the financial wildfire that spread across the...
Emerging from the ashes of the financial wildfire that spread across the world in 2008, the seeds of a new digital financial ecosystem germinated from an email sent by Satoshi Nakamoto to a group of...
The rise of digital currency (aka cryptocurrency) has caused regulators to grapple with how to fit it under existing money transmission laws. Today, FinTechs and issuers of digital currency also...
In 2018, there were 12,131 FinTech startups worldwide. In a little over two years (as of February 2021), that number has more than doubled to 26,045 startups. Every bank executive worth her salt is...
[Feat. Val Dahiya, Partner, Perkins Coie] — As the former Branch Chief of the Division of Trading and Markets at the SEC, Val Dahiya knows a thing or two about risk exposure and the impact of...
Regulatory compliance mapping is key to helping financial firms manage risk. No matter how your firm defines its taxonomy, Ascent helps you organize and surface exactly what you need, when you need...
[Feat. Heather Gentile, Head of RegTech Offerings, IBM] — There are two compliance issues that are on Heather Gentile’s mind — repeatability and…
Finding the right RegTech partner can be difficult. So we sat down with an industry expert to get his take on how he evaluates vendors. — As an expert in regulatory change management, Vincent...
