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What an Actimize Sale Might Mean for Surveillance and FinCrime Technology
When news emerged that NICE is preparing to sell its Actimize division – long regarded as one of the most established full-stack platforms for financial crime, fraud, and surveillance – the immediate headlines focused on valuation. With reports suggesting a price in the range of US$1.5–2 billion, the deal would be one of the RegTech…
The US Litigation Paradox: Why Passive Participation is the Key for European Asset Managers
In the second blog of our series on securities litigation claims, we look at how the complexity of fragmented legal jurisdictions globally often deters European asset managers from getting involved in litigation and argue that the simplicity of the US system may mean participation is easier than many European firms are aware of. Access the…
ESMA’s “Data Day” and Regulatory Digitalisation
When ESMA convened its first ‘Data Day’ on 2 December 2025, the agenda title – “Burden reduction in the digitalisation era” – captured a shift that has been building across Europe’s regulatory landscape for several years. While markets been advancing shared data models and machine-executable reporting logic through initiatives such as the Common Domain Model…
Shield Earns Top Gartner Rankings Across All DCGA Use Cases and Makes Deloitte Technology Fast 500TM
Specialist surveillance solution provider Shield closes 2025 with a sharp uptick in industry recognition, underscoring its growing influence in digital communications governance. Gartner has ranked the Tel Aviv–based firm among the top three providers across all six evaluated use cases in its Critical Capabilities for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving (DCGA), while also naming Shield…
AI Everywhere at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit (NYC) 2025
Artificial intelligence was the recurring theme this year’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York. Across conversations on AI governance, agentic workflows, crypto compliance, surveillance, AML transformation and regulatory reporting, a single theme cut through: AI is becoming embedded in the regulatory fabric of financial services, but its adoption must remain grounded, explainable, and anchored…
SEC’s 2026 Examination Priorities – 10 Notable Changes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its Examination Priorities for 2026, and while many supervisory themes continue from 2025, the tone and structure of the new document reflect a decisive pivot. After years of rapid organisational expansion and broadening remit, the Division of Examinations is now emphasising consistency, prioritisation and the effective…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of the 2025 RegTech Insight Awards (USA)
A-Team Group is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 RegTech Insight Awards USA, recognising the leading providers of RegTech solutions, and consultancy services for capital markets across North America. Spanning more than 30 categories, the 2025 awards programme recognised excellence across a wide range of regulatory compliance solutions and services. A-Team Group also presented…
FpML to DRR: TradeHeader’s Journey to the Heart of Regulatory Data Standards
Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) has gained momentum as the industry looks to replace fragmented, firm-specific interpretations of reporting rules with a shared, machine-executable model that consistently links regulatory requirements to the data used to fulfil them. Rather than relying on templates, local mappings and bespoke logic embedded deep within legacy systems, DRR provides a common…
How Firms Are Adapting to a Multi-Channel, AI-Driven Future – Global Relay Survey
Global Relay has published its 2025/26 Data Insights: Communications Capture Trends report, now in its third annual edition and rapidly becoming a reference point for how regulated financial institutions manage their communications obligations. Drawing on data from more than 12,000 regulated financial institutions using Global Relay’s connectors, the survey tracks which channels firms are archiving,…
Discover What’s Top of Mind for Industry Leaders as aiComms Surge and 99% of Firms Plan to Expand their AI Use
By Esteban Lopez, Product Management, Theta Lake. Building on research conducted by Theta Lake since 2018, the seventh edition of this groundbreaking industry report offers valuable insights into how AI, modern unified communication and collaboration (UCC) platforms, and DCGA tools are being used across financial services organizations. As the growth of UCC tools and AI…