Regnology to Acquire Fed Reporter

Regnology is moving to deepen its position in the U.S. regulatory reporting market through a planned acquisition of Fed Reporter, a U.S. provider of regulatory reporting solutions used by banks, credit unions and bank holding companies.

The transaction would extend Regnology’s U.S. reach to more than 4,000 institutions, from global banks to community lenders, and broaden its coverage across the American financial landscape. For Regnology, the deal adds a more embedded “last-mile” reporting capability, strengthening its ability to connect upstream data, reporting workflows and final regulatory submission.

“This is the next step in our U.S. strategy. We’ve built strong capabilities and relationships across the market: Fed Reporter extends that reach into the US financial landscape, completing our coverage from Wall Street to Main Street,” said Rob Mackay, CEO of Regnology.

The acquisition follows earlier strategic moves by Regnology in broker-dealer reporting and enterprise-grade regulatory reporting solutions for global institutions. Fed Reporter adds local market expertise and client relationships across banks, credit unions and bank holding companies, including smaller and community-based institutions where reporting support often depends as much on practical implementation knowledge as on platform capability.

The strategic direction is consistent with a wider regulatory reporting market shift towards cleaner data, greater transparency and more direct linkage between firm-side reporting processes and supervisory consumption.

Mackay positioned the deal as part of a broader regulatory modernisation strategy. “Our goal is to be a long-term partner in regulatory modernization. By combining trusted, mission-critical solutions with continued innovation, including more intelligent and automated reporting, we help institutions and regulators manage complexity, improve data quality, and move forward with confidence.”

Alexander Grimm, Head of Americas at Regnology, said the acquisition brings together local expertise and global technology. “We are excited to welcome the highly respected Fed Reporter team into our organization. Their expertise and client relationships are unmatched, and together we combine deep local knowledge with global technology to better serve the entire U.S. market.”

Bruce Gall, CEO of Fed Reporter, said the company’s clients would continue to receive familiar support within a larger operating structure. “This is a strong step forward for our clients and team. We will continue to deliver the simplicity and expert support our clients trust, now backed by the scale and long-term vision of Regnology.”

The transaction remains subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the coming months.

AutoRek Announces Major Advancement to AutoRek ARIA as Demand for AI Driven Financial Controls Accelerates

AutoRek has updated its ARIA platform as firms continue to focus on reducing operational friction in reconciliation while maintaining auditability and control. The latest release centres on automating rule creation, shortening configuration timelines, and improving visibility into matching decisions – areas that have traditionally required significant manual intervention.

The update introduces automated rule generation for complex matching scenarios and reduces configuration time for routine reconciliations to under 30 minutes. It also expands pattern recognition to limit manual investigation, alongside enhanced dashboards designed to provide real-time oversight of reconciliation processes. Explainability features have been extended to support audit and regulatory review, reflecting ongoing supervisory expectations around transparency in automated decision-making.

Since its launch in September 2025, AutoRek ARIA has been positioned as a regulatory-grade intelligence layer for reconciliation and financial controls. Reported outcomes include automated match rates of up to 99.99%, alongside a 95% reduction in time spent evaluating manual matches and a 90–95% reduction in the time required to create new match rules. The latest iteration builds on this by targeting more complex workflows and scaling automation across higher-volume environments.

“Financial institutions are under pressure to operate faster, with greater accuracy and stronger oversight,” said Chris Livesey, CEO of AutoRek. “AutoRek ARIA brings regulatory?grade intelligence to one of the most operationally intensive areas of finance. This release represents a step?change in how firms can automate reconciliation at scale while maintaining the transparency and governance regulators expect.”

The direction of travel aligns with broader industry shifts, where reconciliation is increasingly treated as a control function rather than a back-office task. The emphasis on explainability and oversight reflects regulatory scrutiny on how automated processes can be evidenced, particularly in environments where firms must demonstrate both accuracy and control effectiveness.

Shield Extends Agentic Suite Into Governed Alert Closure

Shield has added two AI agents to AmplifAI, its agentic suite for digital communications surveillance and investigations, extending the platform’s focus from detection and investigation into alert resolution and language coverage.

The new Alert Closure Agent is designed to assess flagged communications using message content, risk language and conversation context, and to close alerts where the surrounding context indicates that no compliance risk is present. The company says customer evaluations of the agent resulted in a 77.3% reduction in false positives.

The launch addresses one of the most persistent operating problems in communications surveillance: large volumes of low-risk alerts that absorb reviewer capacity before cases can be escalated for more meaningful investigation. The company cites industry estimates that firms process roughly one million Level 1 alerts each year, with fewer than 0.02% progressing beyond initial review and 93% of firms identifying false positives as a significant operational challenge. The agent is positioned as a governed workflow tool rather than a standalone decision-maker, with closure reasoning recorded in the alert detail, closed alerts capable of being reopened, and quality assurance workflow steps configurable by the firm.

The operational significance is the move from AI-assisted triage to controlled case disposition. Surveillance providers have increasingly used artificial intelligence to classify communications, prioritise alerts or surface contextual information, while regulators have observed firms exploring AI to filter false alerts. This latest release pushes further into the workflow by allowing contextually clear false positives to be closed under defined oversight controls.

That distinction matters for regulated firms. The practical challenge is not simply whether AI can reduce alert noise, but whether it can do so in a way that leaves a defensible evidence trail for compliance, audit and supervisory review. The company’s emphasis on recorded reasoning, reopenable alerts and configurable quality assurance is intended to support that governance requirement.

The second addition, the Language Expansion Agent, is aimed at multilingual surveillance gaps. Shield says the agent can identify risk across unmonitored or rare languages, bringing communications inside the compliance perimeter regardless of the languages a firm has selected for active monitoring.

Together, the two agents broaden AmplifAI across detection, investigation and governed resolution. The suite already includes a Noise Reduction Agent and Coverage Expansion Agent for detection, a Risk Reasoning Agent for triage and analysis, and Shiela, an agentic assistant for natural-language queries and investigation.

Shiran Weitzman, chief executive officer of Shield, framed the launch as part of a shift from task-specific AI toward “a coordinated system of specialized agents” across the surveillance lifecycle. He said the new agents are intended to support autonomy “where needed” while helping firms “keep human judgment at the centre.”

Tamar Sharir, chief product officer of Shield, linked the release to the long-running trade-off between scale, coverage and efficiency in compliance operations. She said the new agents are designed to give compliance programmes “coverage and capacity” across channels, languages and alerts.

The Alert Closure Agent and Language Expansion Agent are available as part of the AmplifAI suite. The company says the Alert Closure Agent is already in deployment with a Tier 1 financial institution.

Trading Technologies Upgrades TT Trade Surveillance Platform with Market Replay Tool

Trading Technologies International (TT) has upgraded its TT Trade Surveillance platform, introducing a Market Replay tool and an enhanced enterprise case management user interface. The update improves the workflow, speed and scope of compliance investigations across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, futures and options. Live demonstrations of the system will begin tomorrow at the XLoD Global – London 2026 conference.

The Market Replay module functions as a forensic auditing tool, providing a tick-by-tick visual playback of the order book over a 90-day lookback window. Meanwhile, the upgraded cloud-based case management system enables global compliance teams to collaborate on historical data and manage investigations within a single workspace.

The hosted platform minimises false-positive alerts using user-configurable and core models. This includes a machine learning-powered spoofing model trained on regulatory data, which scores alert risks from 1 to 100 to help staff prioritise tasks. The system ingests and normalises multi-asset trading data from both TT and external platforms.

Sumsub Adds Agentic Compliance Configuration Through MCP Integration

Sumsub has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration and a suite of AI agent skills designed to let compliance teams use large language model-based agents to configure and manage verification workflows.

The new capability allows teams to upload anti-money laundering (AML) policies or regulatory requirements to AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT or other leading models, and use those agents to generate Sumsub workflow configurations directly from the source document. In practice, that means country-specific risk brackets, weighted scoring tables and conditional onboarding logic can be translated into verification levels, risk questionnaires and onboarding workflows inside the customer’s Sumsub dashboard.

The development addresses one of the more time-consuming parts of compliance technology implementation: translating policy and regulatory requirements into operational settings. Traditionally, that work has required solution architects or technical teams to interpret AML policies, map requirements to platform controls and build onboarding workflows manually. Sumsub says a setup that previously could take days can now be completed in minutes.

The release also extends agentic functionality beyond workflow setup. AI agents can be used to support technical integration, including writing code to embed Sumsub verification into a customer onboarding flow. Day-to-day use cases include reviewing applicants, running analytics, generating verification links and responding to regulatory changes.

“Setting up a compliance workflow has always required significant manual effort, and updating it when regulations change requires even more,” said Andrew Novoselsky, Chief Product Officer at Sumsub. “Our Agentic experience changes that by connecting an AI agent directly to the configuration layer of the platform — a team can take their AML policy, hand it to an AI agent, and have their full environment built automatically. That is a fundamentally different category of capability from what has been available in this space.”

The integration is model-agnostic and is designed to work with leading AI agents. Sumsub has also published an open-source set of agent skills on GitHub, which can be installed with a single terminal command.

The MCP integration builds on Sumsub’s broader AI strategy, including Summy, its AI Copilot for compliance and fraud teams inside the platform. Sumsub is positioning the release as part of a shift toward compliance infrastructure that can operate alongside the AI tools and workflows used by operational, compliance and technical teams.

Sumsub says access to the MCP integration is controlled through separate permissions to support granular data governance. Sensitive actions are performed in an isolated sandbox, with configuration changes reviewed and approved by a human before being applied.

The integration is available now. Sumsub says it is the first verification platform to be officially listed on the ChatGPT Apps platform, with further discussions ongoing with additional large language model providers. Documentation and agent skills are available through Sumsub’s developer resources.

Shield adds Microsoft 365 Copilot & OCR to RegTech Surveillance Stack

Shield has expanded its communications surveillance platform to cover Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions and image-based content, addressing two areas where financial firms’ working practices have been moving faster than their compliance controls.

The update adds a native Microsoft 365 Copilot connector and OCR text extraction for image attachments. Together, the capabilities bring employee prompts, AI-generated responses, screenshots, scanned documents and photos into the same surveillance, archive, search, case management and export workflows already used for other communications channels.

The development reflects a wider compliance challenge for financial institutions. AI-assisted tools are becoming embedded in daily workflows, while image-based communication has become a routine way of sharing information. In many firms, however, those records have not been captured, indexed or made available for compliance review in the same way as email, chat or other monitored channels.

Shield says its Copilot connector captures employee prompts and AI responses and processes them through the platform’s existing compliance workflow in under 24 hours. Metadata is preserved for audit and investigation, allowing firms to search, review and export Copilot interactions without introducing a separate compliance tool or review process.

The OCR capability applies the same principle to image-based content. Text contained in screenshots, scanned documents and photos is extracted, indexed and analysed. Triggered terms are highlighted inline below the relevant image, making the material searchable for investigation and e-discovery and reducing reliance on manual inspection.

The release comes as firms face growing pressure to extend surveillance across a broader set of communication formats. Shield cites the 1LoD 2026 Surveillance Benchmarking Report, which found that 67 percent of banks regard surveillance across multiple communication channels as a major challenge, while 22 percent now monitor more than 30 channels, compared with 14 percent two years earlier.

Regulatory expectations are also pushing firms towards broader coverage. FINRA Rule 4511 requires member firms to make and preserve required books and records, while FINRA’s 2026 Oversight Report highlights generative AI as an emerging supervisory and compliance issue. In the UK and EU, firms also need to consider how AI-assisted and image-based communications interact with market abuse, supervision and recordkeeping expectations. The FCA has warned that firms with unmonitored risks and no strategic plan to address them are ‘a long way from meeting our expectations.’

“Comprehensive surveillance has always meant capturing everything material to business conduct. But what counts as material is changing — AI-assisted conversations and image-based content are now part of daily workflows at every major financial institution,” said Tamar Sharir Beiser, Chief Product Officer at Shield. “Shield’s role is to ensure that as communication evolves, the compliance infrastructure around it evolves too, so firms are never in a position where their governance framework is trailing their technology adoption.”

For financial firms, the issue is no longer whether AI-assisted conversations and image-based content may fall within the compliance perimeter. The operational challenge is whether those records can be captured, searched, supervised and evidenced without disrupting the tools employees already use.

Taskize and Global Relay Add Evidence Layer for Financial Services Operations

Taskize has partnered with Global Relay to add API-based communications archiving to its investment operations collaboration platform, supporting stronger evidence of cross-firm resolution workflows.

The integration uses the Global Relay Open Connector API to capture activity within Taskize Bubbles, the platform’s shared spaces for resolving operational issues between firms. The archive can record transcripts, metadata, participants, attachments and system events, creating a more complete record of how issues were raised, discussed, escalated and resolved.

The partnership comes as operational teams face growing pressure to evidence control over communications and workflow processes across regulated markets. Europe’s planned move to T+1 settlement in October 2027 adds to that pressure by compressing post-trade timelines and increasing the need for faster issue resolution without weakening recordkeeping.

For Taskize users, the integration adds tamper-proof recordkeeping and unified searchability across communications channels. That can help firms reconstruct activity across operational processes, while reducing the manual burden associated with preserving records from collaborative workflows.

Anthony Crespy, senior vice president of business development at Global Relay, said the partnership reflects the role of structured data capture in compliance operations.

“Our API-driven approach to structured data archiving complements Taskize’s strategy perfectly. Through this partnership, we not only offer customers the confidence that their communications meet the highest compliance standards but also significantly reduce the operational burden associated with regulatory recordkeeping.”

Diederik Geeraerts, CEO of Taskize, said financial services operations teams need stronger assurance as regulatory expectations evolve across jurisdictions.

“Amid an evolving cross-jurisdictional regulatory environment, operational teams in financial services need total assurance. By partnering with Global Relay, Taskize can capture all interactions in line with regulatory requirements. It’s the latest example of how Taskize is helping firms transition into a digital- and AI-first landscape.”

ACA Group Appoints Trey Loughran as Chief Executive Officer

ACA Group has appointed Trey Loughran as chief executive officer and member of the board, as the governance, risk and compliance solutions provider prepares for its next phase with Genstar Capital as lead investor.

Loughran succeeds Patrick Olson, who became CEO in May 2023. Olson will move into the role of vice chairman, where he will continue to support institutional client relationships and represent ACA with clients and at industry forums.

The appointment gives ACA a CEO with more than 30 years’ experience across financial services, data and analytics, and technology-enabled services. Loughran most recently served as CEO of Purchasing Power, a private equity-backed financial services platform, where he led a business transformation and sale to PROG Holdings.

He previously spent more than 12 years at Equifax, holding senior leadership roles including president of its US Information Solutions and Personal Solutions business units and chief marketing officer. His remit there included large-scale profit-and-loss management, mergers and acquisitions, product development and enterprise go-to-market strategy.

Loughran began his career at Lazard, later practised law and worked with McKinsey & Company before moving into operating leadership roles. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ben Brigeman, chairman of the board of ACA Group, commented, “ACA has built an extraordinary position as a leading GRC provider to the financial services industry, serving more than 6,000 clients globally. The Board is confident that Trey’s combination of deep financial services expertise, commercial instinct, and people-first leadership will help ACA translate that market position into accelerated growth. We are excited about the opportunity ahead.”

Trey Loughran, Chief Executive Officer of ACA Group, said: “ACA sits at the intersection of forces I have focused on my entire career: the growing complexity of regulatory compliance, the shift toward outsourced and technology-enabled solutions, and the clear demand for a category-defining platform. ACA’s leading team, client relationships, and reputation are what make this opportunity so exciting. I look forward to driving the next phase of ACA’s growth alongside our talented team and to delivering even greater value to our clients.”

Sid Ramakrishnan, managing director of Genstar Capital, “ACA’s combination of advisory expertise, managed services, and technology-enabled solutions positions it to capture the significant growth opportunity in regulatory compliance and operational resilience. Trey’s operating experience, client orientation, and track record of building high-performing teams make him the right leader for ACA’s next chapter,” Ramakrishnan said.

Commenting on Olson’s continuing role Brigeman added, “We are pleased that Patrick will continue to support ACA’s client relationships and institutional presence in his new role as Vice Chairman. His knowledge of our client base and industry standing will be a valuable asset during this transition.”

The appointment comes as compliance teams face rising regulatory complexity, operational resilience demands and pressure to show stronger evidence around governance, controls and outsourced processes. For ACA, that creates a market in which advisory expertise, managed services and technology-enabled workflows are becoming more closely linked.

EquiLend and Delta Capita Partner on Spire Implementation

EquiLend has entered a strategic partnership with Delta Capita to expand implementation support for EquiLend Spire, its securities finance platform.

The arrangement gives EquiLend additional delivery capacity as adoption of Spire grows across the securities finance market. Delta Capita will act as an implementation partner for new client onboarding and platform upgrades, working within EquiLend’s existing scoping, delivery and governance model.

The partnership combines EquiLend’s product and platform expertise with Delta Capita’s experience in securities finance, systems implementation and change management. The firms said Spire engagements will be delivered through a single, jointly governed model intended to give clients a clearer engagement structure and faster onboarding from the start of a project.

For Delta Capita, the role is centred on implementation discipline and securities finance delivery support. Sarah Carver, Global Head of Consulting at Delta Capita, said the firm would bring “the analysis discipline, delivery rigor, and securities finance domain knowledge to drive successful Spire projects.”

EquiLend framed the partnership as part of its work to support client experience as the platform evolves. Laurence Marshall, Managing Director of EquiLend, said Spire is “critical infrastructure for securities lending operations” and that the partnership expands “the implementation resources available to Spire clients,” supporting “smooth onboarding and upgrades” while helping clients keep their Spire environments current.

Shield Adds Analytics Layer and Faster Review Workflow to Surveillance Platform

Shield has added two capabilities to its communications surveillance and archiving platform, aiming to help compliance teams improve alert review efficiency while giving senior leaders clearer evidence of surveillance performance.

The updates include Shield Insights, a premium analytics layer for compliance operations, and a redesigned reviewer experience that Shield says can reduce alert review time by up to 50%. The additions respond to a familiar operating challenge for surveillance teams: rising alert volumes, limited reviewer capacity and growing pressure to evidence programme effectiveness to regulators. Shield points to recent industry survey data indicating that 93% of financial institutions cite high false positive volumes as a significant challenge, while fewer than 0.02% of alerts progress beyond Level 1 review.

Shield Insights is designed to give compliance and operations leaders a more consistent view of surveillance performance across metrics such as alert rates, review coverage, reviewer productivity and workload distribution. The aim is to reduce reliance on manual reporting processes and parallel reporting workflows that can create data-quality and integration issues. By structuring raw surveillance data into standardised operational metrics, the analytics layer gives firms a clearer basis for tracking key performance indicators, evidencing review coverage and preparing for regulatory exams.

The reviewer workflow update focuses on the operational bottleneck at the point of alert investigation. Shield says the redesigned experience removes unnecessary navigation and visual clutter, putting relevant context in front of reviewers more quickly while preserving detection logic, model governance and regulatory auditability. The company says the release is embedded into existing workflows and does not require workflow redesign.

“Compliance teams are being asked to operate at a higher standard than ever before – managing more alerts, more channels, and more complexity, while proving program effectiveness to regulators with measurable evidence,” said Tamar Sharir Beiser, Chief Product Officer at Shield. “These innovations meet that reality at every level of the function – equipping compliance leaders with the performance intelligence to measure and demonstrate program impact, while empowering reviewers with faster, clearer workflows. This pincer approach reflects where the industry is heading and where Shield is leading.”