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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…
Quantexa Survey Reveals Confidence Gap in Community Bank AML Defences
On paper, mid-size and community banks in the United States should feel secure. A recent survey found that 94% of anti-money laundering (AML) professionals at these institutions are confident in their ability to spot criminal activity. But confidence can be deceptive. Nearly half of those same professionals admitted their investigations are slow, inefficient, and undermined…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2025 – Thirteenth Edition
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and practical guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change, and the data and data management requirements of compliance across Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This year’s edition lands at a moment of accelerating regulatory divergence and intensifying data focused supervision. Inside,…
Audit-Ready AI: How Fenergo Is Redefining Financial Crime Compliance
Regulators are losing patience. In the first half of 2025, global financial institutions were hit with fines totalling $1.23 billion, a 417% increase on the same period the year before. Sanctions failures alone surged from $3.7 million in H1 2024 to $228.8 million this year, underscoring just how closely watchdogs are monitoring AML, KYC and…
EU’s AMLA Sets Stage for Direct Supervision of High-Risk Cross-Border Banks
The EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA – the Authority)) moved from concept to reality in summer 2025 as it began operations in Frankfurt. The Authority has a mandate to drive supervisory convergence, coordinate Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and, from 2028, directly supervise a set of high-risk, cross-border financial institutions. The EU Anti Money Laundering…
Unlock the Future of APAC Capital Markets: Your Definitive Guide to Technology, Data & Innovation
The Asia Pacific (APAC) capital markets are navigating a period of profound transformation, driven by relentless technological advancement and a complex regulatory environment. To stay competitive and drive sustainable growth, financial institutions need a strategic roadmap built on authoritative insights. A-Team Group presents “The State of Capital Markets Technology in Asia Pacific,” a comprehensive new…
Fenergo Enhances Financial Crime Compliance Capabilities with Agentic AI Integration
Fenergo has introduced an updated financial crime solution – the FinCrime Operating System (FinCrime OS) – featuring a new agentic AI layer aimed at significantly improving operational efficiency within financial institutions. This development comes against a background of spiralling operational costs and rising compliance demands enhanced by geopolitical tension and regulatory flux. Marc Murphy, CEO,…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2025
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2025. The awards recognise both established providers and innovative newcomers providing RegTech solutions to capital market participants that significantly improve their ability to respond effectively to evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements. This year’s RegTech Insight Awards Europe included more than 40…
ACA Insights from FCA 2024 STORS Report (Insider Dealing Dominates)
In March, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its annual breakdown of suspicious transaction and order reports (STORs) filed during 2024. The headline figure – 4,528 STORs received – reflects continued vigilance in monitoring for potential market abuse. While the volume remains largely consistent with previous years, the detailed breakdown offers valuable insights for…
AI-Driven Insights Give Financial Crime Teams a New Edge
Digital intelligence firm Fivecast is bringing its AI-powered platform—originally used in national security—into the financial crime space. The platform is designed to help compliance and investigation teams better detect risk by surfacing insights from vast amounts of online, publicly available data. Built around open-source intelligence (OSINT), it applies machine learning to identify red flags across…