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Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Executive Board Member, SIX. For as long as anyone in the industry can remember, sanctions in financial instruments representing holdings in sanctioned legal entities have been treated as a very specialist concern. They sat with compliance teams and were largely invisible to day-to-day market activity. The issue is…
Regulator-First AI: Vivox Brings Atomic Workflows to Compliance Operations
Artificial intelligence has become a default talking point in financial crime compliance. Yet for many regulated firms, particularly those operating across capital markets, payments, and treasury functions, the challenge is no longer whether AI can be used, but whether it can be deployed in a way regulators will accept. For Vivox AI, a young company…
Teciem Launches with New Investment Focus on Treasury, Capital Markets, Risk and Regulatory Technology
When Teciem formally launched as a standalone company in early February, it marked the culmination of a process that had been several years in the making. The business, formerly Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets (TCM) unit, now operates independently with a singular focus: delivering mission-critical technology for treasury, capital markets, risk management and regulatory compliance….
AI Agents Need Better Data, Not Bigger Models – Daloopa Benchmark
AI-powered fundamental and historical data provider Daloopa has published new benchmark research examining how well leading AI agent systems perform on real-world financial research tasks. Titled Benchmarking AI Agents on Financial Retrieval, the study evaluates whether recent advances in agentic AI translate into reliable outcomes when accuracy matters most. The benchmark focuses on a core…
CFTC File Format Change to Impact Futures Data Management Teams
For futures commission merchants, clearing members, proprietary trading firms, and banks with material futures and options exposure, the transition of CFTC Part 17 Large Trader Reporting to FIX Markup Language (FIXML) is a test of data management maturity. This change directly affects firms responsible for aggregating, validating, and submitting large trader position data, often across…
New White Paper: AI and the Operational Reality of e-Comms Surveillance
The rapid expansion of electronic communications channels has fundamentally reshaped how financial firms interact with clients, counterparties and markets. Email and Bloomberg messaging have been joined by collaboration tools, instant messaging platforms, voice calls and video meetings, all of which now sit squarely within the scope of regulatory scrutiny. For compliance teams, this proliferation has…
ThetaRay Extends Agentic AI into AML Investigations with Ray
As regulatory expectations around anti-money-laundering (AML) effectiveness continue to rise, many financial institutions are finding that the greatest operational pressure now sits in investigations rather than detection. While transaction monitoring models have advanced, the downstream work of reviewing alerts, assembling evidence and documenting decisions remains labour-intensive and difficult to standardise. ThetaRay is addressing this challenge…
Seven 2026 RegTech Outlooks for Compliance, Reporting and Financial Crime
As 2026 gets underway, RegTechs are positioning for a shift in regulatory emphasis from refits, rewrites and attestations to demonstrable evidence. Across the jurisdictions supervisors are shifting from consultation and rulemaking into validation and testing whether firms have operationalised reforms through governance, high-quality data, defensible controls and credible evidence. The seven RegTechs that follow have…
UK Equity Consolidated Tape and EU MiFIR – Two Data Regimes, One Control Problem
The UK’s proposed equity consolidated tape is framed as a response to long-standing fragmentation in equity market data. By aggregating post-trade information and an attributed best bid and offer across trading venues, the tape is intended to provide a single, standardised view of UK equity trading. At the same time, transaction reporting under the Markets…
The Latest Changes to the EU AI Act – What You Need to Know
By Nik Kairinos, CEO and Co-Founder of RAIDS AI. AI’s influence continues to grow, reaching across sectors and across borders. In financial services, it’s fundamentally changing how firms operate, shifting towards more precise, efficient, and innovative ways of working. At a foundational level, it provides the ability to analyse large volumes of data quickly and…