Ukrainian Consulting Agency

Securities processing

The securities regulatory landscape has provided significant challenges over the past few years, with broker-dealers facing new or modified rules and requirements that could significantly affect how they do business. In some regulatory areas, the requirements have been clarified and firms are now focusing on compliance and refinement. In other areas, the regulations are still emerging or evolving, and firms are looking for clues that can help them prepare.

UCRA will support your business in understanding the securities regulatory landscape specifically for your business.

At UCRA we help you manage outsourcing effectively to secure your organisation’s financial performance, operating model integrity and reputation. This includes deciphering the complexity of outsourcing options, integration issues and governance requirements.

Regulatory and compliance

UCRA offers clients a broad range of fully integrated regulatory services. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business and industry knowledge to help your company excel.

UCRA assists organisations in adapting to a changing regulatory environment through strategy to help organisations anticipate and adapt to regulatory change, operational efficiency to achieve a cost-effective balance between compliance and risk and remediation in response to enforcement.

Our technical knowledge and skills, across a variety of disciplines, help us look at each situation objectively, identify unique opportunities and challenges, and devise an approach that address these quickly and as efficiently as possible.

We ensure that you understand the implications and requirements of new regulations so that you can design, implement and assess appropriate processes, policies, and procedures for your business.

Payments

Continued improvements in credit quality are a cause for optimism in the payments industry. UCRA is seeing a shift from addressing compliance and risk weaknesses back onto the growth agenda in recent times. This focus on growth has also been accompanied by an increase in payments innovation.

This will however, lead to uncertainty in the traditional payments field as plastic gives way to mobile payments. Expectations by merchants, and the roles played by the incumbent payments companies, is beginning to change, with growing unwillingness by merchant exchanges and other non-traditional joint ventures to pay traditional interchange fees to the credit card industry.

It is not all gloom. The rise in mobile payments will significantly enhance the consumer experience, led by the major brands across the hospitality and travel industries. As promising as these new solutions are for consumers, they threaten to add cost to the issuers, and may impact on brand products and experience.