A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Beyond the AI Hype: Six Trading Technology Trends to Watch in 2025
The trading technology landscape is heading into 2025 with unprecedented momentum, driven by a convergence of regulatory changes, market structure reforms, and advances in core infrastructure technologies. While artificial intelligence dominates much of the conversation around fintech, the year ahead will also be shaped by broader, practical shifts—from faster settlement cycles and rising data costs...
Transforming Compliance: Key Takeaways from the RegTech Summit Panel on GenAI and LLMs
A deep dive on Generative AI (GenAI) in compliance was the focus of the first panel session at the recent A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York. The panel comprised Erin Preston, Chief Compliance Officer, Wedbush Securities; Harsh Pandya, Vice President, Product Management, Saifr; Brandon Carl, EVP, Product Strategy, Smarsh; and Rachna Srivastava, Head of...
From Fragmented to Unified: KOR Streamlines SEC and CFTC Derivatives Reporting
In August, KOR received its license from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a Securities Based Swap Data Repository (SBSDR) and Securities Information Processor (SIP)—a milestone that positions it squarely within a particularly exclusive segment of the U.S. derivatives reporting environment. This achievement makes KOR only the second SBSDR in the country...
KYC 2.0: Elevating Customer Due Diligence Practices
By Steve Marshall, Director, Advisory Services, FinScan, an Innovative Systems solution. Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements for anti-money laundering (AML) programmes are entering a new era. Evolving regulations, industry best practices, and ongoing scrutiny of compliance programmes are pushing organisations subject to KYC regulations to reevaluate their approach to customer due diligence (CDD), the process...
Symphony Partners with TradingView to Enhance Market Data Access and Collaboration
Symphony, the communication and markets technology company, has integrated with TradingView, the market analysis platform. The partnership enables users of the Symphony Messaging platform to access TradingView’s extensive global market data, charts, and news feeds, which span 108 stock exchanges, 46 futures exchanges, 32 forex exchanges, 77 cryptocurrency exchanges, and 100 news and economic data...
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...