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A-Team Insight Announces RegTech Award Winners as APAC Navigates Compliance Complexity
A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our inaugural Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2025, recognising the firms and solutions demonstrating exceptional innovation across the Asia Pacific region. Alongside this announcement, we have launched our in-depth annual report, “The State of Capital Markets Technology in Asia Pacific 2025”, which examines the key trends…
Data Surge Argues for Enterprise-Grade Lineage: Webinar Review
The ingestion of growing volumes of data into financial institutions’ systems is posing a pressing challenge as data managers seek to optimise their data lineage, according to the latest A-Team Group webinar. Being able track data as it enters and is distributed within organisations is essential for prising the most value from that information. However,…
Regulators Hit Pause on Rules but Signal Zero Tolerance for Weak Governance
In an eventful month for global financial oversight, key regulators in the U.S. and EU have taken a pragmatic stance – extending major compliance deadlines while simultaneously trimming regulatory agendas. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended critical deadlines for broker-dealer reserve computations and private fund disclosures, withdrew fourteen proposed rules, and the European…
Navigating Global Stablecoin Regulation
Stablecoins have surged from niche crypto curiosities to pivotal elements of global finance. Pegged to fiat currencies or other assets, these digital tokens promise near-instant settlement, lower transaction costs, and 24/7 liquidity-features reshaping capital markets and payment infrastructures worldwide. However, this rapid growth has drawn intensified regulatory scrutiny, particularly across the G20, where authorities grapple…
From Archive to Insight – Smarsh Unveils OpenAPI Platform for EComms Governance
On 4 June 2025, Smarsh unveiled what it calls its “largest platform refresh in years,” layering next generation artificial intelligence, a Copilot ready capture service and an open API suite onto the company’s cloud compliance stack. The launch positions the Portland based vendor to help banks and brokers contend with the coming wave of generative…
CUBE’s Acquisition of Acin Integrates AI-Powered Compliance and Operational Risk Management
CUBE’s fourth acquisition since early 2023 folds Acin’s AI powered operational risk network into its RegPlatform estate, promising end to end traceability from regulation to control for a client base that now tops 1,000 firms across more than 20 countries. This strategic move, backed by some of the world’s largest banks, is set to reshape…
SteelEye’s 2025 Compliance Health Check – Bigger Budgets, Smarter Tech – But Challenges Remain
SteelEye’s 2025 Compliance Health Check Report captures how firms responded to compliance pressures during 2024. A review of the same report for 2023 reveals a clear rebound in spending and technology adoption after a brief post-pandemic hiatus, yet it also underscores persistent gaps in manual work, channel coverage and enforcement readiness. In the 2024 data…
Is the End in Sight? Plotting the Journey to Consolidated Tape in the EU and UK Markets
By Anne Plested, MCSI, Senior Product Manager for Regulation, ION Markets. The realization of consolidated tape has been long-awaited for equities trading in the UK and the European Union (EU). With the European Commission (EC) adopting the enabling technical standards on 12 June and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) launching its search for…
From Capture to Context: Transforming Voice Comms Compliance with Theta Lake
In today’s financial landscape, voice communications compliance extends beyond simple capture and retention – it demands contextual insight and integrated oversight across multiple platforms. Firms grapple with fragmented systems, complex cloud environments, and regulatory pressures that require a more holistic compliance strategy. In this video interview, Adrian Sharp, RegTech Insight Editor at A-Team Group, talks…
Six Providers of SFDR Reporting Solutions
Europe’s ESG regulatory space is dominated by the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, which requires listed companies in the bloc to declare the sustainability credentials of the funds they manufacture and the assets in which invest. Its intention is to give investors and advisers a clearer understanding of how sustainable investments are. Compliance requires the reporting…