January 23, 2014 - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Standard Bank £7,640,400 for failings relating to its anti-money laundering (AML) policies and procedures over corporate customers, connected to politically exposed persons (PEPs).

January 17, 2014 - Algorithmica Research AB and FCG - The Financial Compliance Group AB are pleased to announce that FCG's risk and compliance services offering will be based on Algorithmica's ARMS and Quantlab system platform for financial analytics, market risk and compliance reporting.

January 16, 2014 - PSA International S.A. (PSAI), the international treasury arm of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group, has deployed SuperDerivatives' risk management and financial compliance system CorporeX to manage its multi-asset exposure and hedging activities and ensure compliance with impending European EMIR regulations.

January 16, 2013 - Algorithmica Research AB and FCG – The Financial Compliance Group AB are pleased to announce that FCG's risk and compliance services offering will be based on Algorithmica's ARMS and Quantlab system platform for financial analytics, market risk and compliance reporting. The system set-up will also include the Algorithmica History Server for centralized market- and instrument data management with data from multiple sources.

January 14, 14 - Following the European Securities and Markets Authority's (ESMA's) approval of six trade repositories, there is a start-date of 12 February 2014 for derivatives trade reporting under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).

January 13, 2014 - Regulators have made a number of concessions in regard to the Basel III capital adequacy regime, which seeks to rein in the reliance many banking institutions have on debt.

January 7, 2014 - Financial messaging network Swift has announced the creation of a global Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry to help banks to manage compliance challenges and reduce the high costs associated with implementing anti-money laundering regulations.