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Audit-Ready AI: How Fenergo Is Redefining Financial Crime Compliance
Regulators are losing patience. In the first half of 2025, global financial institutions were hit with fines totalling $1.23 billion, a 417% increase on the same period the year before. Sanctions failures alone surged from $3.7 million in H1 2024 to $228.8 million this year, underscoring just how closely watchdogs are monitoring AML, KYC and…
Growing Modern Data Platforms Adoption Seen as Benefits Become Apparent: Webinar Review
Take-up of modern data platforms (MDPs) is expected to accelerate in the next few years as financial institutions realise the greater agility, scalability and deeper insights offered by the innovation. Organisations that have so far been relatively slow to adopt the streamlined platforms – because they have been unsure of the technologies’ benefits – will…
BMLL Frees Quants from Data Prep with New Trades Plus Offering
Data and analytics provider BMLL has launched Trades Plus, a new equities dataset designed to eliminate the complex and time-consuming process of combining trade and quote data, a significant and resource-intensive challenge for quantitative analysts and trading firms. The new offering, developed in direct response to requests from its Client Product Advisory Board (CPAB), provides…
LSEG Launches REDI on Workspace in Strategic Move to Unify Buy-Side Execution
LSEG Data & Analytics has launched REDI on Workspace, a significant step in its strategy to create a unified, end-to-end ecosystem for the buy-side. The new offering embeds the execution management capabilities of its REDI platform directly into LSEG Workspace, its flagship data and analytics platform. The move is the culmination of a multi-year strategy…
S&P Builds Private Markets-Trained AI Document Search Tool for iLevel Platform
S&P Global Market Intelligence has expanded its private markets data and technology platform iLevel with the addition of AI Document Search, a module that is built on large language models (LLMs) trained specifically to aid participants in the fast-growing alternative assets sector. The new tool enables general partners (GPs), who manage funds on behalf of…
API-Driven and Template-Free: The Rise of Granular Data Reporting
For decades, regulatory reporting has been defined by templates: thousands of fields to be completed and resubmitted every time a rule or taxonomy changed. That world is now shifting. Regulators in multiple jurisdictions are adopting Granular Data Reporting (GDR) – a model where firms submit transaction- or element-level data once, and supervisors generate the necessary…
REP008, FIT, and Beyond: Navigating the FCA’s Reporting Duties on Misconduct
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has long insisted that “non-financial misconduct is misconduct.” That phrase, repeated across speeches and policy statements, reflects the regulator’s conviction that culture, integrity, and behaviour are inseparable from financial soundness. In 2025, the FCA translated that principle into formal rulemaking, finalising changes to the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR)…
Are Legacy Systems Undermining the Future of Wealth Management?
The polished digital façade of a modern private bank can sometimes conceal a more brittle and complex reality: a tech stack strained by its own history. For technology leaders working within this environment, the strategic challenges are significant. And while industry narratives often highlight external market pressures and disruptive fintech, some of the most persistent…
BT Sells Radianz to TNS, Reshaping Financial Markets Networking Landscape
BT Group has agreed to sell its financial technology unit, Radianz, to US-based Transaction Network Services (TNS), a move that not only marks a strategic shift for the British telecom giant but also significantly reshapes the competitive landscape for global financial network providers. The deal, announced Tuesday, is expected to close in the first half…
Getting the Best – and Avoiding the Worst – from AI in Two Keynotes: DMS NYC 2025
Two themes have stood out from the many that have dominated the data management space in the past year – and at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit New York City 2025, both will be explored in detail by leading practitioners in each subject’s respective fields. The first of those themes is grounded in a consensus…