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AI in Finance: Key Insights from the SEC’s Landmark 2025 Roundtable

In late March, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hosted a landmark roundtable on artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services. Held in Washington, D.C., the event brought together regulators, technologists, market participants, and legal experts to explore the evolving landscape of AI – from transformative innovation to systemic risk. This wasn’t about rulemaking –…

Upcoming Webinar: Managing Off-Channel Communications Compliance

The proliferation of unmonitored communication channels—ranging from personal messaging apps to embedded chat functions in trading platforms—has introduced significant compliance challenges for capital markets firms. Regulatory bodies including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)  have intensified their scrutiny, emphasizing the necessity for firms to maintain comprehensive records of…

Data Hurdles, Expertise Loss Hampering BCBS 239 Compliance

A combination of data management hurdles, talent shortages and poor succession planning are bedevilling banks as they struggle to respond to a long-standing risk data aggregation directive – even after repeated European Central Bank (ECB) criticism of their compliance shortfalls. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting…

Data Concern Over EU’s Streamlining of Green Regulations

Financial institutions may have to rely more heavily on their data teams and vendors to surface sustainability risks in their portfolios after the European Union watered down some of its key corporate ESG reporting regulations. The EU’s Omnibus package announced earlier this year is intended to streamline the compliance processes for regulations including the Corporate…

November 2025 Deadline for ISO 20022: Are We Ready?

Global payment networks are undergoing a fundamental transformation as the financial industry transitions to ISO 20022 – a structured messaging standard designed to replace legacy formats and drive interoperability. In capital markets and treasury operations, this shift is most evident in the SWIFT cross-border payments network and high-value systems like the U.S. Fedwire. SWIFT’s Cross-Border…

Navigating Divergent AI Regulation – Can Standards Bring Clarity?

Artificial intelligence is transforming financial services, from automating credit assessments to streamlining compliance processes. But while AI capabilities are developing at pace, regulatory frameworks are struggling to keep up. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the contrasting approaches taken by the European Union and the United Kingdom. The EU has opted for a rules-heavy,…

10 Major Financial Regulations Reshaping Capital Markets in 2025 (and How to Stay Ahead of Them)

From sweeping reforms in operational resilience and AI governance to the first-time application of AML obligations to buy-side firms, the scope and depth of regulatory change shows no sign of slowing down in 2025. In this post, we present a selection of the most strategically significant regulations coming into effect or having significant impact on…

Behavox Adds Onshore Alert Review to Expand Managed Services Capabilities

Behavox has expanded its managed services offering to include an onshore Alert Review service, aimed at helping compliance teams tackle the growing volume of surveillance alerts across communications and trading platforms. The service is designed to reduce false positives and focus teams on the most critical escalations. Traditionally, firms have relied on internal teams or…

Modern Data Landscape Comes Under Scrutiny at Data Management Summit London

From data products and marketplaces to the new challenges of regulatory compliance and the latest thinking on unstructured data, A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit London 2025 took in the full breadth of topics that chief data officers and their teams are dealing with daily. With a line up of C-suite executives and expert speakers from…

AML Partners Extends Directed Intelligence with AI/ML Agents

With its RegTechONE® platform and Directed Intelligence framework, AML Partners is enabling financial institutions to train their own AI/ML models using internal operational data, ensuring that compliance automation aligns with real-world risk decisions and regulatory expectations. Unlike traditional AI models that rely on opaque, third-party training data, AML Partners’ Directed Intelligence records every compliance decision,…