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A-Team Group Announces Winners of the AI in Capital Markets Awards 2025
A-Team Group has announced the winners of the inaugural AI in Capital Markets Awards 2025, celebrating the most innovative and impactful applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning across the global financial markets. The new awards programme recognises technologies that have moved beyond proof-of-concept to deliver measurable value, supporting efficiency, resilience, and insight generation across…
Data Lineage the ‘Heartbeat’ of Financial Institutions: Webinar Review
End-to-end lineage that enables robust data traceability is now considered the “heartbeat of an enterprise” and no longer a niche interest of data managers, according to an A-Team LIVE webinar. Focusing on the importance of metadata to two particular use cases – regulatory compliance and artificial intelligence readiness – panellists agreed that without a solid…
Beyond the Balance Sheet: Operationalising Non-Financial Misconduct under SMCR
The integration of Non-Financial Misconduct (NFM) – encompassing behaviours such as harassment, discrimination, and bullying – into the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) marks an important step in UK financial services regulation. A webinar, Managing Non-Financial Misconduct Under SMCR, hosted by A-Team Group, offered senior practitioners insights into operationalising these expectations, covering legal alignment,…
Eventus Unveils Frank AI to Bring Conversational Intelligence to Trade Surveillance
Eventus, the trade surveillance and financial risk solutions provider, today launched Frank AI, a new artificial intelligence platform designed to transform how compliance teams interact with surveillance data. The new tool embeds generative AI into Eventus’s Validus platform, allowing even non-technical users to conduct complex data investigations using conversational English. The launch addresses a persistent…
What the SEC’s New Treasury Clearing Rule Means for Dealers and Buy-Side Firms
Since December 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been steering the U.S. Treasury market toward a structural shift: mandating central clearing for broad categories of cash and repo trades in U.S. Treasuries. The objective is clear, reducing counterparty risk, improving transparency and operational resilience. But the transition presents several challenges that have yet…
From Batch to Real-Time: LSEG Reinvents AML Screening with World-Check On Demand
As financial institutions accelerate toward real-time payments and digital onboarding, compliance teams face mounting pressure to keep customer screening instant, accurate and demonstrable. In response, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has introduced World-Check On Demand – a new cloud-based service designed to deliver “real-time risk intelligence” through API integration, allowing institutions to embed sanctions…
From e-Comms to AI Validation: Key Findings from ACA’s IMCT Survey 2025
Artificial intelligence has risen to the top of compliance priorities according to the 2025 Investment Management Compliance Testing (IMCT) Survey by the Investment Advisor Association (IAA), ACA Group and Yuter Compliance Consulting. Based on responses from 577 adviser firms, AI usage ranks as the year’s “hottest” topic (57%), ahead of AML readiness (41%) and cybersecurity…
Behavox’s Case for Explainable AI in Compliance – Trust, not Magic
When compliance teams hear “AI,” enthusiasm is often tempered by unease. The promise of automation is tempered by the reality of black-box models, hallucinations, privacy risks, and the nagging question of whether the technology will meet regulators expectations. Behavox, a Montreal- and London-based RegTech, is seeking to bridge that trust gap with its latest release:…
Symphony and the Future of Market Communications: T+1, DORA, and Deepfake Defence
In May 2024, the U.S. capital markets made the long-awaited transition to T+1 settlement, with RegTech company Symphony playing a quiet but pivotal role. The integration of its platform with DTCC’s Central Trade Manager (CTM) gave firms the ability to resolve trade contract breaks in real time, reducing the risk of settlement failure. “The DTCC,…
From Sandbox to Scale-Up: How the FCA Plans to Shape UK Fintech Growth
In her address at Merchant Taylors’ Hall on 17 September 2025, Jessica Rusu, the FCA’s Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer, set out a comprehensive programme of initiatives underpin the regulator’s growth and innovation agenda. The speech, “Regulating for growth – the future is now”, presented four central pillars: strengthening crypto oversight, advancing artificial intelligence…