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Why Sanctions Compliance Is Becoming an Intelligence-Led Discipline
By Theodora Papadimitropoulou, Head of Global Product Strategy, GTM at Dun & Bradstreet. For years, sanctions compliance was closely associated with a single task, running a counterparty’s name against the relevant lists, checking for a match and acting if required. How much that tells you, though, depends heavily on the provider and the data behind…
Fenergo Launches Fen-AI to Govern AI Across Client Lifecycle Management
Fenergo has launched Fen-AI, an orchestration platform designed to help financial institutions deploy AI across client lifecycle management while retaining human oversight, policy controls and an auditable record of decisions. The platform supports Fenergo’s KYRA family of AI agents, which can carry out tasks across client onboarding, periodic reviews, ongoing monitoring and material changes to…
Recorded Webinar: The Data Office at a Crossroads — AI Governance, Organisational Design, and the Evolving Mandate of the CDO
Who owns AI governance in a capital markets firm – and is the Data Office structured to bear that weight? These questions sit at the heart of A-Team Research’s latest findings, presented here for the first time: the combined results of two landmark surveys examining the role of the Data Office in AI governance and…
Broker Licensing Agreements Under Scrutiny as AI Reshapes Buy-Side Data and Research Market
Traditional data and research purchase arrangements may be holding back the buy-side from using artificial intelligence to take full advantage of new sources of market and other information. Restrictions associated with broker and data licensing agreements were cited as the biggest barrier to adoption of direct data and research feeds by two-thirds of global asset…
Kyckr Revenue Grows 46% as Demand Rises for Live Registry Data
KYB data provider Kyckr has reported 46% revenue growth for the financial year ended June 2026, which it described as its strongest performance in two decades. The company attributes the increase to regulatory pressure in Australia and North America, where firms face growing scrutiny of the data supporting their compliance controls. Kyckr said regulated firms…
ESMA’s Data Quality Report Signals a Higher Bar for Regulatory Reporting Data
By Michele Hillery, Managing Director, Head of Repository & Derivatives Services at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Regulators across jurisdictions are leveraging trade reporting data as a supervisory resource, using it to monitor risk, assess market activity and inform policy and oversight decisions. As this use becomes more sophisticated, firms face an even…
Reconciliation No Longer Has Time On Its Side as T+1 Approaches
By John Bevil, senior product manager at Xceptor. Europe’s capital markets firms are entering the most consequential phase of T+1 preparation. From 11 October 2027, trades executed in European markets are expected to settle one business day after trade date, reducing the settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1. More than 4 trillion euros of securities…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…
The Business Conduct Risk and Data Challenge Behind AI Adoption
Poor data preparation for artificial intelligence deployments is exposing financial institutions to greater business conduct risks that could cost them as much as US$43 million per year, according to new research. An updated report by business conduct data provider RepRisk found that such AI-related incidents are on the rise as applications are rolled out at…
MCPs in Data Management: Bringing New Order to Private Markets
Financial institutions have begun deploying Model Context Protocols (MCPs) as they have expanded the use of artificial intelligence applications and agents. The technology developed by Anthropic is an open-source contextual layer that helps coordinate models and data, enabling AI applications to connect with a multitude of other platforms and processes. In the first of a…