Theta Lake, an AI-based RegTech provider for video communication compliance based in California, has raised $5 million in its first round of Series A seed funding led by Neotribe Ventures and Firebolt Ventures.
Theta Lake’s platform uses AI to help compliance teams more effectively scale their compliance risk detection and workflow for supervising communication on modern video, voice, and unified collaboration systems.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at buy-side and sell-side institutions across the USA, UK and Canada, reveals a market in transition: from...
“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...
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...