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Introducing Market & Alt Data Insight: Advancing the Industrialisation of Data in Financial Markets
Financial markets are entering a new phase in the evolution of data. Data has always underpinned trading and investment workflows. What has changed is the scale, diversity and strategic management of that data across the enterprise. Traditional market data, alternative signals, derived datasets and AI-generated features now sit on the same operational continuum. The strategic…
FCA Stablecoin Cohort Commences Live Sandbox Testing
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has selected Monee Financial Technologies, ReStabilise, Revolut and VVTX to participate in a new stablecoins cohort within its Regulatory Sandbox, with testing due to begin in Q1 2026. On the FCA’s framing, the cohort is designed to test how stablecoin services operate against proposed UK rules in a controlled environment,…
Terminus Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Eventus
Terminus Capital Partners has made a majority investment in Eventus, the trade surveillance software provider, in a transaction designed to support the firm’s continued product development and global expansion. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the agreement, Terminus will back increased investment in product innovation and platform capabilities, expansion of global commercial and support operations,…
Beyond Calculation: How DORA Is Redefining NAV Resilience for Fund Managers
Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), NAV has been recast as a resilience capability. That shift framed a recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight and sponsored by FundGuard, which brought together a panel of senior experts to examine what “recoverable NAV” now means in practice. NAV Resilience focus is not about…
Democratising Surveillance: Why Culture Is the Real Compliance Challenge
Institutional culture has always been the defining constraint for effective compliance across capital markets and treasury. Boards may approve ever-larger budgets for surveillance technology and artificial intelligence, and regulators may intensify scrutiny of governance, risk, and compliance frameworks, yet the hardest variable to control remains behavioural norms and internal incentives. For many organisations, the question…
Financial Crime is a Decision-Speed Problem: Rethinking AI in AML and Compliance Controls
Financial crime compliance is often described as a resourcing challenge. Firms speak of analyst backlogs, alert volumes and the rising cost of surveillance and screening. Kieran Holland, Solutions Engineering Team Leader at Innovative Systems’ FinScan, argues that the underlying constraint has shifted. Financial crime has become a decision-speed problem. “The fight against financial crime is…
Defensibility: The New Watchword for Data Management
George Tziahanas, VP of Compliance at Archive360. Regulated enterprises are discovering that the hardest part of scaling new technology such as AI isn’t adoption; it’s proving those technologies are properly controlled. For financial institutions in particular – including banks, asset managers, insurers, and capital markets firms – this challenge is intensified by long-standing regulatory expectations…
MiFIR Schema 1.4.0 Rollout: Testing Clarity Still Pending – April Deadline Remains
As of mid-February 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) MiFIR reporting webpage continues to indicate that a dedicated test environment for updated transparency messages would open in February, with exact dates to be confirmed in January. No detailed testing calendar has been published at the time of writing. The result is a compressed…
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…