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Asian KYB Requires Live Registry Data, Not Another Database: AsiaVerify CEO
Asian know-your-business (KYB) controls have an uncomfortable blind spot: firms can spend heavily on onboarding, sanctions screening and case management while still making decisions from corporate records that may be weeks or months out of date – and sometimes more. AsiaVerify CEO Leas Bachatene spoke with RegTech Insight about the KYB challenges for firms with…
Selling the Proof, Not the Data
For most of the past decade, a vendor specialising in natural-language processing (NLP) could sell a hedge fund something it could not easily make for itself. Sentiment scored from news, filings and earnings calls, provided as a clean feed, mapped to individual stocks and timestamped for point-in-time use. The work of pulling that signal out…
Why Private Markets Need Numbers They Can Defend
By Gareth Hewitt, Founder, LemonEdge. Private markets run on confidence. Performance still matters but investor trust increasingly depends on whether a general partner (GP) can defend the numbers behind it and whether a limited partner (LP) has enough transparency to test and reconcile those numbers for itself. A capital account balance, valuation movement, fee calculation…
When Silence is the Best Measure of Success: ROI of Data Trust Webinar Review
When data observability and remediation tools work, the only measure of success is silence – nothing happens, no data breaks, no anomalies, no dramas. It might seem hard to demonstrate the success of something when there is nothing to show, especially when the business is required to prove the value of the process to secure…
Sanctioned Securities Risk Moves Inside the Portfolio
Sanctions screening in capital markets has traditionally been treated as a specialist compliance concern: one for legal teams, sanctions officers and financial crime specialists to manage through lists, policies and escalation procedures. That view is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in capital markets, where sanctions exposure can be hidden inside the securities, funds and structured…
When Everyone Has the Same AI Models, Is Discipline the New Differentiator?
Enterprise adoption of AI inside capital markets firms has reached a point where the frontier models are widely available, the coding agents and orchestration frameworks are broadly the same from one firm to the next, and the cost of building something has fallen far enough that a business user with no engineering background can now…
Kalshi and the Search for an Orthogonal Signal
Prediction markets have spent the past two years moving from the margins of financial markets towards something institutional desks are willing to take seriously. Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated event-contract venue, has been at the centre of that shift, and its ambitions now extend well beyond providing a place to trade. Over an eight-week period the firm…
Open Standard Group Set to Challenge Circle, Tether in $300 Billion Stablecoin Market
A consortium led by Visa, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, and including more than 140 financial services, e-commerce, technology and DLT players, plans to launch a US Dollar-denominated stablecoin dubbed Open USD later this year. When it goes live, the Open Standard group will challenge existing leaders Circle and Tether, which between them dominate the $300+…
Why Prediction Markets Have to Survive the Events They Launch For
By Daniel Davis, Chief Revenue Officer, Connamara Technologies. Every prediction market operator knows the clock is running. The opportunity in this sector is tied to things that happen on fixed dates: an election, a championship final, a central bank decision, or a geopolitical flashpoint. But if a venue isn’t trading before the event, it doesn’t…
10 Leading Providers of Cloud Migration, Scalability and Analytics Innovation
The practical evolution of financial technology has shifted from isolated on-premises deployments to highly distributed cloud architectures. This transition is not a sudden revolutionary overhaul but an incremental migration aimed at converting fixed infrastructure costs into variable operational expenses while unlocking computational elasticity. To execute this shift without risking operational downtime or compliance breaches, institutional…