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PS26/2: The FCA Wants Data, Not Declarations on Resilience
The Financial Conduct Authority has moved the UK operational resilience regime into its next phase with PS26/2 on operational incident and third party reporting. Firms have spent the past few years identifying important business services and setting impact tolerances. Supervisors now want structured data that shows how those services hold up under stress. PS26/2 introduces…
ITDR Won’t Save You if You Can’t Recover – Quest Research
For years, financial institutions have invested heavily in identity security, building layered controls around authentication, access management and threat detection. Yet regulators are increasingly focused on resilience – specifically what happens when those controls fail? The findings from Quest Software’s recent State of ITDR 2026: prevention and recovery research point to a clear conclusion: while…
Blackwired’s ThirdWatch: Powering Operational Resilience with Cyber Intelligence
For years, financial institutions have invested heavily in cyber defences designed to protect their own perimeters. Firewalls hardened, endpoints secured, and internal monitoring intensified. But many of the most disruptive recent incidents have propagated through third-party providers, software supply chains, or shared infrastructure. They are aimed at the firms banks depend on. The exploitation of…
smartKYC QnA: Accelerating Due Diligence at Scale
Hugo Chamberlain is the chief commercial officer of UK-based smartKYC, which has been automating the KYC process since 2014. Data Management Insight spoke to Hugo to find out how the company is helping financial institutions streamline their onboarding processes. Data Management Insight: Hello Hugo. When was smartKYC created and how does it serve financial institutions?…
Swap Data Was Supposed to Deliver Transparency. A Decade Later, Regulators Are Still Trying to Use It
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…
The End of the “Toughest Regulator” Model? Rethinking Global Surveillance Strategies
For years, global banks have built surveillance programmes around a simple assumption: meet the expectations of the toughest regulator and the rest of the world will fall into line. If a compliance framework could satisfy authorities in the United States, United Kingdom or European Union, the same controls could usually be applied globally with only…
Re-Architecting Regulatory Reporting with REGnosys and Open Source
Regulatory reporting has long been defined by highly specialized jurisdictional knowledge, templates, spreadsheets, and a significant part of the compliance budget. Regulators publish new requirements, firms interpret them independently, technology teams build extraction and transformation layers, and operations teams reconcile outputs before pushing formatted datasets to supervisory authorities. RegTech Insight sat down with regulatory reporting…
Regnology Extends Balance Sheet-Centric Reporting Model with Wolters Kluwer FRR Acquisition
On 1 December 2025, Regnology completed the acquisition of Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting (FRR) unit; the deal was announced earlier in July. The company describes the combination as unifying its cloud-first regulatory reporting platform with FRR’s finance and risk capabilities, while extending its reach in key markets – APAC in particular. RegTech…
Reframing Corporate KYC: Encompass Targets Back-Book Exposure with Scalable EC Review
For many SME focussed banks, KYC investments have streamlined the onboarding journey but legacy KYC records – the back-book – often remain dormant until a regulatory inspection, or an enforcement case at a peer institution, forces a wholesale review. The challenge that follows is how to remediate at scale, with urgency, and without the need…
When 1% Breaks the Fund: The Sanctions Contagion Facing ETF Issuers
Roy Kirby, Head of Core Products at SIX Group, has spent the past four years watching sanctions transform from episodic geopolitical tools into a structural feature of market risk. In sharing insights with RegTech Insight, he sets out how the acceleration and layering of sanctions since 2022 are reshaping compliance obligations for ETF issuers and,…