— If you watch CNBC, then you might recognize our next guest, Tom Loverro. Tom has helped some of the ...
Ascent TeamJuly 7, 2021
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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…
Jilaine BauerJune 1, 2021
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…
Jilaine BauerMay 21, 2021
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…
Ascent TeamMay 13, 2021
— There are two compliance issues that are on Heather Gentile’s mind — repeatability and...
Ascent TeamMarch 30, 2021
SARs have been in the media a lot recently, dragging these reports into the limelight. Here we discuss how financial firms are expected to respond. Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are undoubtedly…
Ascent TeamFebruary 16, 2021
To those in the anti-money laundering practice, Nina Simone’s memorable singing that it’s a “new dawn” and “a new day” may be best suited to the recently-passed Anti-Money Laundering Act…
Ascent TeamFebruary 1, 2021
Ascent has been named to the prestigious RegTech 100 list for the third year running. The RegTech 100 list is comprised of the world's most innovative technology firms helping financial…
Ascent TeamDecember 2, 2020
SupTech, short for supervisory technology, is the application of emerging technology to improve how supervisory agencies conduct supervision. Regulatory technology — or, RegTech — is in the midst of a…
Ascent TeamFebruary 18, 2020
(7 min read) Regulatory complexity has exploded in the dozen years since the Global Financial Crisis. Massive new regulations, from Dodd-Frank to EMIR to MiFID II, have been brought down…
Ascent TeamFebruary 10, 2020