A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Regulators Stay Tough: Why Surveillance Matters in 2025
By Paul Cottee, Director, Regulatory Compliance, NICE Actimize. A common question has arisen in recent conversations and at conferences. Now that major U.S. regulators have new leaders and enforcement heads in place, will enforcement actions slow down both in the United States and around the world? In other words, can financial institutions ease surveillance efforts? ...
Beware: Persisting Regulatory Gaps as Stablecoin Standards Converge
By Stefano Chierici, Senior Product Manager, Financial Information, SIX. Once on the fringes of the crypto movement, stablecoins are fast becoming the cornerstone of many financial institutions’ digital assets strategies – and watchdogs are rallying to ensure necessary guardrails are in place, without hindering this emerging asset class. Backed by real-world assets to address the...
Busy NeoXam Takes Aim at Private Market Data Challenges
It’s been a busy first half for French data and portfolio management technology provider NeoXam, with expansion of its Australian operations, an addition to its management team and strengthened partnerships with established clients. Amidst this busyness has been a focus on providing private-market data capabilities as buy-side firms increase their exposure to alternatives such as...
Uncovering Data Anomalies: 16 Data Observability Solutions for Capital Markets
Financial institutions’ operational resilience depends largely on the integrity of their data and the applications it feeds. The huge volume of data that modern organisations ingest makes this a challenge. The accuracy, completeness and timeliness of critical data can be improved if it is monitored and checked as it moves through increasingly intricate data pipelines...
Turning Regulation into an Advantage for UK Financial Sector SMEs
By Jon Lucas, Director and Co-Founder, Hyve Managed Hosting. While security and compliance have always been crucial pillars of cloud hosting, the landscape is shifting. New legislation and stricter regulatory frameworks are placing heavier demands on businesses – particularly in sectors like financial services – forcing companies to invest more time, and resources into ticking...
Trading Technologies Taps SIGMA AI to Build Dedicated AI Hub and Names Andy Simpson as Head of AI
Trading Technologies (TT) has deepened its partnership with fintech firm SIGMA AI through a strategic minority investment, tasking the company with building a proprietary AI and innovation hub to embed artificial intelligence across TT’s global trading platform. The move, which expands on an existing collaboration established in 2024, aims to accelerate TT’s AI adoption for...
Delta Capita’s Elaris OTC Stitches New Rails into the Derivatives Backoffice
Over the counter (OTC) derivatives remain one of the world’s largest financial markets. Bank for International Settlements (BIS) data puts notional outstanding at roughly US $700 trillion at mid 2024. Yet pockets of manual effort still reside in day today processing with industry estimates suggesting 20% of OTC trades are confirmed and settled by email...
Validating GenAI Models in Finance: A Q&A with Chandrakant Maheshwari on Risk, Governance, and the Rise of Agentic AI
At a recent RegTech Insight Advisory Board session, a discussion with Chandrakant on generative AI (GenAI) and model risk management underscored the need to cut through the hype and myths around GenAI and emerging agentic AI in regulated markets. This Q&A is the result. It examines why traditional model validation techniques—ROC curves and confusion matrices—can’t...
Lloyds, Aberdeen and Archax Complete UK-First Tokenised Collateral FX Trade
Lloyds Banking Group, Aberdeen Investments and Archax, the FCA-regulated exchange, broker, and custodian for digital assets, have completed a landmark foreign exchange (FX) trade using tokenised real-world assets as collateral, marking a first for the UK financial sector. The pilot transaction involved the use of tokenised units of Aberdeen’s money market fund and UK gilts...
Slaying the Monolith: A Pragmatist’s Guide to Modernising Trading Architecture
For decades, trading technology has been haunted by large, intricate, all-in-one applications that power core business functions, aka the monolith. While once a necessity, these systems have become a source of immense friction. They are brittle, expensive to maintain, and notoriously slow to change, creating a chasm between business demands for agility and IT’s capacity...