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From AI Pilots to Always-On Compliance: The Priorities Shaping Regtech in 2026/27
Artificial intelligence is moving into live compliance workflows. That shift raises immediate questions about control: how much authority firms should give AI systems, where human review must remain, and how compliance teams can explain automated decisions to regulators and senior management. These issues will shape the agenda at RegTech Summit London on 1 October 2026….
AI May Well Be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, Chief Executive of AutoRek Everyone’s racing to add AI to everything, but are we clear on the finishing line? Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal: how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a…
Industry Backs FCA AIFM Reform but Warns of Uneven Costs.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently proposed the biggest overhaul of the UK alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) regime since 2013. The projected benefits will depend on whether greater proportionality can reduce compliance overhead without shifting costs to smaller managers. The proposals in CP 26/28 replace the current distinction between full-scope and sub-threshold AIFMs with…
UBS AML Enforcement Exposes Underlying Data Weaknesses
A coordinated US enforcement action against UBS Financial Services has exposed how incomplete data feeds, faulty system configuration and weak customer-risk controls can undermine an automated anti-money laundering (AML) programme. FINRA found that UBS failed to monitor adequately more than 60,000 foreign-currency wires worth over $10 billion between January 2019 and June 2023. The deficiencies…
AI Expands Buy-Side Compliance Remit as Resources Remain Flat
Four in five respondents to a survey of US investment advisers use artificial intelligence, but many have yet to put testing, validation and third-party oversight behind that adoption. Around 60% of chief compliance officers also hold another executive role, so the added AI duties sit alongside their existing responsibilities. Amended Regulation S-P also requires advisers…
Single Rulebook and Sigma AI Target Regulatory Lag as Markets Accelerate
Single Rulebook and Sigma AI have partnered to shorten the time between an exchange changing its rules and the affected trading business responding. Exchanges can issue circulars that alter trading conditions each day, leaving firms to identify affected desks, assess the operational consequences and document decisions across disconnected teams. The firms aim to deliver source-grounded…
BIGTXN Turns Investment Restrictions into Trade-Ready Controls
An interview with Founder & CEO, Haider Mannan. Investment screening has its greatest operational impact before a trade, when a firm needs a defensible compliance decision without delaying execution. BIGTXN founder and chief executive Haider Mannan built the company around that constraint. “Because if you’re holding up execution, it’s costing the business,” he told RegTech…
Trading Up: Helping Our Youngsters Get What We Do
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the…
Regnology Moves from Platform Integration to Agentic Reporting
Regnology is moving into the next phase of its expansion, applying agentic artificial intelligence to the regulatory reporting, risk and finance capabilities assembled through its recent acquisitions. When RegTech Insight last spoke with chief executive Rob Mackay in early 2026, the company was integrating Wolters Kluwer’s Financial Risk and Reporting business and regulatory-reporting assets acquired…
EBA Framework 4.3 Maps the Data Behind AMLA’s First Risk Assessment
The European Banking Authority’s Reporting Framework 4.3 gives financial institutions their first machine-readable view of the data that will support the EU’s selection of firms for direct anti-money laundering supervision. Published earlier this month, the framework marks an intermediate step towards the first formal risk-assessment and selection exercise by the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and…