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How RegTech has Shaped Compliance in a Year of Global Regulatory Changes

2024 has been a transformative year for the regulatory landscape marked by major updates to trade reporting rules across the globe. Leo Labeis, CEO of REGnosys, reflects on the year and discusses how firms can harness RegTech solutions to stay prepared for ongoing regulatory evolution. While some will remember 2024 as “the year the world...

How to Build an Open Data Ecosystem: A Scheme Owner’s Guide

By Brendan Jones, Chief Operating Officer at Konsentus. When taking a scheme-based approach to building an Open Data ecosystem, it is the job of the scheme owner to define the standards, rules and operating procedures that participants sign up to. This means creating the scheme rulebook, processes and infrastructure requirements that underpin the Open Data...

2024: A Year of Increasing Data Complexity

One thing was apparent in the data management space over the past year; the job of chief data officers became increasingly complex as the volume of data their organisations ingested swelled and the uses to which it was put expanded. All that despite the flowering of technologies with the potential to make life easier for...

Spend, Spend, Spend: 2025 Set to be a Year of Bigger Data Budgets

Next year will be one of rising data expenditure by financial institutions as artificial intelligence (AI)-led applications flourish, according to separate surveys. Nevertheless, most aren’t prepared for AI adoption, with organisations having neither the skillsets nor regulatory processes in place, according to another survey. The final flurry of industry studies for 2024 suggest that financial...

Behavioural Surveillance: Key Insights from the Smarsh -Sponsored Webinar on Conduct Risk Management

A recent webinar hosted by RegTech Insight and sponsored by Smarsh, brought together industry leaders to explore innovative strategies for tackling conduct risk. The panel included Sepehr Irandoost, Head of Global Surveillance Effectiveness and Efficiency, Bank of America; Marili Anderson, Head of Compliance, Rabobank; Theo Hill, Senior Director of Product Management, Smarsh. Managing conduct risk...

Kaizen and RegGenome Partner to Streamline Global Regulatory Intelligence

Reg reporting specialist Kaizen has forged a partnership with RegGenome, a spin-out from the University of Cambridge and a founding member of the open-source Regulatory Genome Project (RGP), aimed at helping financial institutions navigate complex global regulations. The tie-in combines RegGenome’s AI-powered regulatory data repository with Kaizen’s award-winning Single Rulebook platform. The partnership leverages the complementary...

TP ICAP Partners with AWS to Accelerate Cloud Transformation and AI Innovation

TP ICAP Group, the global provider of financial markets infrastructure and data solutions, has announced a seven-year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with the goal of modernising TP ICAP’s technology infrastructure, enhancing its digital platform, and advancing innovation through AI and cloud capabilities. A central focus of the partnership is the development of...

TNS Launches Data Usage Optimisation Tool and Market Data as a Service

Infrastructure and connectivity provider Transaction Network Services (TNS) has introduced a new solution aimed at helping buy-side and sell-side firms reduce market data expenses. The Data Usage Optimizer (DUO) offers detailed market data usage reports, identifying unused subscriptions and enabling firms to cut costs by deactivating inactive data feeds. DUO integrates TNS’ market data monitoring...

A-Team Group Announces Winners of its Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024

The winners of A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2024 have been announced, with another crop of outstanding companies recognised for their innovation, expertise and performance. Established solution vendors and ground-breaking newcomers alike are acknowledged in the awards for providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. Over...

ACA Updates ESG Platform with Greater Private Market Capabilities

Governance, risk and compliance advisory firm ACA Group has updated its ESG data management platform to provide more flexibility to its private investment clients. The New York-based company has retooled the ACA Vantage for ESG platform it launched in 2022 after acquiring ESG data specialist Ethos. The new iteration enables greater configuration of data and...