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Keep Up-To-Date on Compliance Tools & Issues
17th October 2013
Key themes in the FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context include product workflow, improved efficiency and, above all, ensuring that you have the right product in place to protect your organisation against regulatory, reputational and business risk. Series producer, Andrew Lucas, highlights articles and reviews which cover these important aspects along with ways to keep up-to-date with the constant flow of new compliance regulation.
Maximise Your Technology Investment - Tap Into Your Technology Culture
15th October 2013
An organisation's technology culture has an enormous effect on its ability to identify technology-driven opportunities, connect them to business goals, prioritise across different opportunities and initiatives and implement technology projects wisely. Robin Neidorf introduces the technology culture inventory, a medium to gather and benchmark your inputs on your organisation's technology culture so that you can then play to the company's strengths and weaknesses.
FreePint Series Keeps You On Top of the Changing Landscape in News Aggregation
14th October 2013
The FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation launched this month and runs until the end of November. Reviews of key news aggregator and awareness tools form a key part of the Series which brings eight product reviews in addition to M-Adaptive already published, plus three mini reviews. Series producer Andrew Grave also previews the articles and webinars in the series, covering areas such as customised integrations of news content and news awareness technology installations.
What Goes Into Product Design? Focus on Compliance Tools
14th October 2013
Understanding how compliance tools were designed and which problems they were designed to meet can help you to use the tools more effectively. In the upcoming FreePint Webinar on Understanding Compliance from the Inside Out, vendors will answer questions such as: How do you engage with customers? How do you stay relevant in a quickly changing regulatory environment? How do you create the right balance between standard features and customisation in a product designed for workflow integration? Join this free session.
The Global Regulatory Environment: Key Issues for Compliance Teams
11th October 2013
Ensuring compliance with the rules of a home regulator alone has become increasingly challenging, but add to this enhanced regulation in all markets in which a global financial services institution operates, then firms have an unenviable task to ensure compliance. Matthew Baker and Victoria Brocklehurst examine the key issues for compliance teams, from differences of approach between jurisdictions to conflicting approaches between initiatives and planning for the impact of new controls.
Selecting the Right News Aggregation Product
11th October 2013
This article examines the changing marketplace of news aggregation products. It takes a top-level view of the types of news aggregation tools available and emphasises the importance of understanding your organisation's news requirements before negotiating vendor contracts.
What's Essential? Engaging with FreePint Customers
10th October 2013
FreePint offers many opportunities to get engaged with peers through Communities of Practice or webinars in areas from mobile deployment to international copyright. Focusing on topics and products relevant to Subscribers is essential and to support this we've just launched a new "sounding board" of FreePint Subscription customers representing all our key audience segments. As a result, upcoming coverage will include mobile security and authentication, and trends and challenges in pricing and licensing models.
Combat Transcription Errors With Linguistic Identity Matching
8th October 2013
Accurate linguistic identity matching is essential for compliance professionals. Victoria Meyer examines the main sources of variations in names and highlights what to look for when choosing a compliance screening system. She focuses on transcription variants, where phonetics can create many different transcription variants. The ideas presented here are taken from "Linguistic Identity Matching" by Lisbach and Meyer (2013).
Taking a Step Back From News Aggregation Tools: What is Current Awareness?
8th October 2013
There is a well-known quote from Clay Shirky, in which he suggests, "A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools, it happens when society adopts new behaviours." Law firm RPC's approach to using news aggregation tools is rooted in this thinking. After selecting and rolling out Attensa as part of its knowledge management programme, the team has turned to helping lawyers think through which sources support their objectives, and what they need to do once articles arrive in the application.
Compliance Creates Job Opportunities
3rd October 2013
Andrew Lucas, the series producer for the FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context, looks at the rapid expansion in the compliance function within banks and considers the implications for careers and the importance of keeping up to date with developments in the sector.
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