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Driving the Future of Capital Markets: A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2026 Winners Announced
A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our Innovation Awards 2026, celebrating the visionary technology providers and practitioners redefining the landscape of financial services. Now in its sixth year, these awards recognise excellence in the deployment of new and emerging technologies across capital markets. This year’s recipients have demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity in solving…
Trillium Surveyor Expands Into Prediction Markets as Capital Markets Interest Grows
Prediction markets are finding early adopters in capital markets across brokers, exchanges, market makers, and infrastructure providers. Activity is most visible on the sell side, where firms are building access points, data services, venue capacity, and liquidity provision. Tradeweb’s partnership and minority investment in Kalshi, Robinhood’s build-out of Rothera Exchange & Clearing with Susquehanna International…
SEC and CFTC Recalibrate Private Fund Reporting for Systemic Risk Oversight
The SEC and CFTC have proposed a substantial reset of Form PF, raising reporting thresholds and streamlining requirements for private fund advisers while preserving supervisory access to data on the largest and most systemically relevant managers. The proposed rule would lift the general filing threshold from $150 million to $1 billion in private fund assets…
FCA Market Soundings Review Puts Pre-Deal Controls Under Scrutiny
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has used its multi-firm review of market soundings in UK equity capital markets (ECM) to evaluate how a long-established issuance practice affects market quality, information control and investor targeting. The review covered 63 ECM transactions in UK listed shares between January 2023 and June 2025, including fifty accelerated bookbuilds (ABBs)…
RepRisk Roundtable London: Tackling Hidden Sustainability Risk in Private Markets with AI
Sustainability risk is moving into the core of capital markets decision-making, closely tied to conduct risk, counterparty exposure and reputational impact. For senior leaders across risk, investment, compliance, sustainability, and supply chain functions, the question how to interpret complex signals from vast quantities of data and apply them with confidence in credit, investment, and operational…
FCA and Turing Institute Collaborate on Synthetic Data to Advance AML Detection
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a research note from its synthetic data anti-money laundering project, an initiative that began in autumn 2024 and was developed with the Alan Turing Institute, Plenitude Consulting, and Napier AI to create a synthetic dataset for AML detection testing. The paper marks the culmination of that work to date…
Waystone Positions ManCo Platform as Infrastructure for Global Fund Expansion
For asset managers expanding into new markets, launching funds across jurisdictions means navigating different supervisory expectations, different disclosure regimes, different distribution rules and different interpretations of similar underlying obligations. The operational burden is growing at the same time as managers remain under pressure to control costs, protect margins and bring products to market faster. That…
Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage Deepen AML Screening Partnership as Compliance Demands Rise
ComplyAdvantage and Sumsub have partnered to tighten AML screening by combining Sumsub’s verification and monitoring environment with ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh intelligence layer. The result is a more integrated compliance workflow that brings together customer and business verification and screening within a single platform. For Sumsub users, the partnership adds ComplyAdvantage’s screening intelligence directly into existing workflows,…
US ESG Pullback Opens a New Competitive Question
US resistance to sustainability disclosure at state and federal level is widening the regulatory gap for US-domiciled firms operating internationally. In March 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defence of federal climate-disclosure rules. In December 2025, the White House issued an executive order targeting proxy advisers accused of promoting ESG…
FinCEN Overhauls AML and CFT Rules with a New Effectiveness Standard
Published April 7, 2026, FinCEN’s latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is a sweeping overhaul of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) programmes, recasting them around effectiveness, risk-based design and the fight against illicit finance. “For too long, Washington has asked financial institutions to measure success by the volume of paperwork…