Cicada is packaging its data management software and data cleansing team to offer a purpose-built Know Your Customer (KYC) solution. The framework will provide configurable, rules-based workflow schema to help financial institutions manage their client data review process, as well as keep an audit trail and source attribution details. The solution can manage both internal data and external vendor feeds, including legal entity data from the company’s new subsidiary.
To date, the industry’s regulatory compliance focus for upcoming European MiFID II and Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) has been on issues including the structure of trading facilities, systematic internalisation, governance, best execution and time-stamping. MiFID II and MAR also contain provisions, however, increasing the requirements for recording and archiving voice communication related to securities trading....
For more than a decade, regulators have collected vast quantities of derivatives transaction data through swap data repositories (SDRs) mandated by post-crisis financial reforms. Yet despite the scale of these datasets, transforming reported trade data into meaningful supervisory insight has often proved more difficult than policymakers anticipated. A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the...
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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...
