Eddie Cogan, Partner, Head of eComms Surveillance at ACA Group discusses the evolution of market surveillance, business and operational challenges of market abuse and how to overcome them, the latest technologies available and advice for practitioners working on market surveillance.
Surveillance in capital markets has evolved in silos. Trade surveillance, voice recording, and electronic communications monitoring have traditionally operated as parallel control functions, each with distinct datasets, workflows and alerting logic. Yet recent enforcement actions on both sides of the Atlantic – ranging from off-channel communications failures to market manipulation cases – demonstrate a consistent...
Over the past 18 months, generative AI (GenAI) based solutions have progressed from pilots into mainstream investment and trading processes, including risk and compliance. With the exception of the prescriptive risk-based EU AI ACT, regulators across jurisdictions are relying on existing rule-books and adopting a principles-based approach, rather than publish AI specific regulations. To get...
Now in its 10th year, RegTech Summit London will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the European capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to innovate the compliance function and response.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...