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Authologic Registration Brings EUDI Wallets Closer to Institutional KYC
Authologic has become the first Polish company registered to issue Electronic Attestations of Attributes (EAAs) for European Union Digital Identity Wallets. Its registration provides an early example of how the European framework could affect financial-sector identity checks. The registration, granted by Narodowy Bank Polski, allows Authologic to issue and verify EAAs. These cryptographically signed credentials…
Insights from the Mills Review for Wholesale Surveillance
“Tweak the contract” triggered the surveillance control. But the surrounding exchange concerned a kitchen renovation. Alex de Lucena, Director of Product and Governance Strategy at Shield shared this example in a recent discussion with RegTech Insight following the publication of the FCA Board-sponsored Mills Review in July 2026. In late 2025, the FCA Board asked…
FCA Misconduct Rules Put Surveillance Evidence and HR–Compliance Workflows to the Test
The Financial Conduct Authority’s expanded non-financial misconduct rules took effect on 1 September, bringing around 37,000 non-bank firms within a broader conduct regime. Firms now need to show how complaints, communications evidence and employment investigations inform regulatory decisions. New rule COCON 1.1.7FR covers serious work-related bullying, harassment and violence towards colleagues. It brings non-bank firms…
SEC Crypto Proposal Opens a New Funding Route and a New Compliance Cycle
The SEC is proposing new fundraising rules for crypto projects that sell tokens while building a blockchain network or application. Regulation Crypto Assets would allow qualifying developers to raise capital from a broad investor base and support secondary trading through tailored exemptions from Securities Act registration. However, these new freedoms come with additional regulatory burdens….
AI Won’t Replace Compliance Professionals, but the EU’s AMLA Will Change How They Work
As the EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority raises expectations around AML, firms are moving beyond transaction monitoring towards behavioural intelligence. Adam McLaughlin, Director of Financial Crime at Fenergo, argues that whilst AI will become central to that transition, human judgement remains the deciding factor. Historically, financial institutions have approached anti-money laundering as a process centred…
US Treasury Launches Task Force to Coordinate Financial Sector Quantum Transition
The US Treasury has launched a public-private task force to coordinate the financial sector’s transition to post-quantum cryptography financial institutions, market infrastructures, technology providers and other private-sector participants. The Quantum-Readiness Task Force will organise its work around three areas: sector alignment and migration; third-party and vendor readiness; and risks involving digital assets and emerging technologies….
From Regulatory Noise to Defensible Action: Where RegTech Must Deliver Next
A compliance system delivers value when it helps a firm decide what to do next. That remains difficult when the evidence sits across internal policies, siloed data and external intelligence. AI can handle the volume and diversity, but faster analysis does not guarantee a better compliance decision. Firms still need to establish why an alert…
What the Regulator Wants to See as AI Governance Moves from Policy to Proof
Over the past 18 months, generative AI (GenAI) based solutions have progressed from pilots into mainstream investment and trading processes, including risk and compliance. With the exception of the prescriptive risk-based EU AI ACT, regulators across jurisdictions are relying on existing rule-books and adopting a principles-based approach, rather than publish AI specific regulations. To get…
SEC Proposes “Regulation Crypto Assets” to Address Digital Assets Innovation while Congress Moves Slowly on CLARITY Act
In a move that was somewhat surprising given its timing, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled a new regulatory proposal titled “Regulation Crypto Assets“ that is expected to have significant impact not only on those involved in launching native crypto assets but also for the general digital assets and tokenisation space. The SEC’s…
FINOS Puts Common Domain Model (CDM) 7 into Production
In July, the FinTech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) released CDM 7 on GitHub consolidating more than 130 individual upgrades and development releases and followed up with a detailed analysis on August 14. The analysis was authored by Lionel Smith-Gordon and Ben Page of REGnosys, an active corporate member and key technology contributor to FINOS. The…